Sponsorship of g0v Summit 2016
零時政府2016高峰會(g0v Summit 2016)贊助案 ![]() Formed at the end of 2012, g0v.tw is an online community that advocates transparency of information. It focuses on developing an information platform and tool for civic participation. Substituting the "o" with "0" in gov,the new "g0v" hopes that the generation of digital natives who sees the world in zeros and ones will start rethinking the role of the government from point zero. At the end of 2014, Taiwan experienced an awakening through a large-scale civic movement and g0v.tw held the g0v Summit for the first time to open up multilateral exchange between open communities, government and non-government organizations, academia and IT industry, and provide the results of collaboration as based on the way of open source. It is hoped that information transparency will help citizens better understand government operations, discuss and analyze public issues, thus achieving effective monitoring of the government and deepening the democracy movement. ![]() The g0v Summit 2016 was held at the Academia Sinica's Building of Humanities and Social Sciences from May 14 to 15. Topics discussed mainly revolved around sharing experiences on how technology promotes democracy and effectiveness of participation, including how to practice the Civics of Civic Tech, emerging political movements in Europe, steps taken by civic groups in various countries to open government information, applications of information technology to monitor environmental hazards, building open digital libraries and arts databases, and the open government's ideology, laws and regulations, and technology, and the actual results of efforts to promote civic participation. ![]() Aiming to provide solutions for human existential space, Archilife Research Foundation has continuously dedicated to integrate knowledge and nurture talents, with focus on architecture and living space initially, which now extend to environmental sustainability and issues concerning the way of living for humanity in the future. Development in information technology and the Internet has brought new directions for human innovation and invention. It is hoped that through this year's first NT$100,000 sponsorship of g0v.tw ? a platform that integrates information technology, brings together talents from diverse fields, promotes the open culture and civic participation, and thus improves the society, the human society can look forward to a more efficient operating environment in the future. ![]() |