Summit Visitors Interview Questions
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預期要收集到的：背景故事、理念金句、國際協作經驗
共同題目
- Let’s start briefly with your story and background. What’s your current passion and focus, and why?
- In your view, what are the values and principles that inform priorities of the collective work you are pursuing?
- What are the most common professional and social backgrounds of contributors in your projects?
- What are the main difficulties you find in carrying out your projects? For example, lack of data? Limited expertise? Limited capacity? Political control? Others?
- How does specific local contexts shape the types of activities undertaken? For example are you concerned the issues about daily life in a region? Local finance? Local government?
- How does your activities make an impact in the public governance? For instance, can you give some examples of how it influences or impacts a city or an area?
個別題目：第一天
David Eaves, 13:30-14:00
Public Policy, Negotiation & Collaboration, Open Innovation
Gregory Engels / PPI, 14:20-14:40
- You talked about starting a sensible discussions with social changes we can expect to happen in 20-years time frame. How do you engage people so they could start to care about long-term issues?
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- Has the Pirate Party’s experiment in open democracy over a number of years changed attitudes towards political participation among the German people? For example, many citizens were only willing to vote but unwilling to participate in in-depth discussion. Has there been an improvement in this situation over time?
- Each social issue involves a large amount of background information. How can we ensure that those participating in the discussion fully understand the context? Would there be situations of uneven capabilities?
- In Taiwan, candidates nominated by small parties this year have faced numerous issues, including leaving to become independents and expulsions for breaches of party discipline. How can we ensure that the abilities and beliefs of party members reflect the talent that the party needs? Does the Pirate Party welcome all comers?
- The party has limited funding; yet open democracy requires vast resources. Will a lack of staffs therefore become a major problem? Can party members devote themselves to politics, or must they be part-timers?
- Who can speak on behalf of the party? Will a decision making processes that everyone can participate take too long? How are specific policies formed? Can “discussion” really produce the best results? What should we do if there is disagreement?
- Is the Pirate Party mostly made up of “hackers”? What role can old people with traditional political training play in the party?
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Richard D. Bartlett / Loomio, 14:50-15:10
- How did the Occupy New Zealand movement shaped your group’s missions and ideals?
- You talked about getting Loomio into a decision-making protocol that’s "bigger than email". How would it differ from the current Loomio 1.0?
個別題目：第二天
Clay Shirky, 13:30-14:10
- Density vs Scale: Graph theory, edges are all-or-none but rather a gradient. Do you have a more nuanced model of "weak ties" in the social media era?
- In HCE, you said people can use their leisure time as cognitive surplus, but actually the working hours has increased for the working middle class, so the quality of leisure time — thin sliced and too tired for constructive work — what strategies do you see that addresses this issue?
- We in g0v strive to narrate in an inclusive, neutral point of view, but we need to evoke emotions regardless, so how do we call up people’s emotions — how to get them into a highly focused cohesion like Military and Sport, but without the anger caused by a common enemy? "Outrage without vilification?"
- The Decentralized model of #UmbrellaMovement has explicitly been compared with GitHub, especially their place on the street is dynamic and fluid and relies on ad-hoc communication infrastructure based on FireChat and Telegram. But that also makes it rather hard to spin a linear narrative out of it — the closest we could get was children narrating their field experiences to their parents. From a media journalist’s point of view, do you think there’s perhaps an alternate way to get the bigger picture — for example in a large Linux ecosystem — outside the echo chamber?
- Wardley Map makes a competition-based ecosystem of progress. Do you have a similar mental model for collaboration based social progress.
Felipe Álvarez / FCI, 14:20-14:50
- Counter-interview! (As requested by Felipe)
Matthew Rumsey / Sunlight Foundation, 15:00-15:30
- What role does Sunlight foundation play in the policy making process? How does
it influence the U.S. politics? and what is its impact?
- How does the advisory Committee cooperate with the Congress to increase the
transparency of the law making process?
- Sunlight foundation also focuses on the transparency of the budget. What is its
milestone? What type of data that the federal government is required to publicize in the U.S.? What is Clearspending report? and its impact?
- To what extent open data increase the transparency of U.S. congress? What is the most successful case? Is there any best practice that you will recommend?
Lucy Park / POPONG.kr, 15:40-16:10
Tim KT Chan, Vincent CY Lau / Code4HK, 16:20-16:50
- It’s been 40 days and multiple organic tent cities has risen in the streets. What’s your current take on the movement, and what kinds of self-organization has evolved from the initial decentralized crowd?
- Would you share some local project ideas, such as 團撐, that relates to the movement? How were such projects developed?
Paul Lenz, Jen, David Whiteland / mySociety & Poplus, 17:00-17:30
- What are the main focus of mySociety’s work w.r.t. UK government’s transparency? w.r.t citizen participation and engagement?
- As mySociety starts to scale up, what are the cultural challenges you’re facing internally and externally, and how are you addressing them?
- You mentioned some system integrators considered mySociety as a lower-cost (open-source) competition. Would you like to talk about some examples, and your strategy working with/around this?