The g0v movement, or g0v, ( pronounce gov-zero ) is an open source, open government collaboration started by Chia-liang Kao ( “ clkao ” ), ipa, kirby and others in late 2012 in Taiwan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] primitively driven by a semimonthly hackathon, the residential district has expanded to include different professional and non- information technology background members. Symbolizing the community ‘s efforts to “ rethink the function of government from zero, ” and borrowing the parlance of binary from the digital earth of 1s and 0s, the O in “ gov ” is replaced with a 0 to make “ g0v ” ; for many politics agencies in Taiwan which have URLs ending .gov.tw, replacing .gov with .g0v redirects the drug user to the alleged shadow government, [ 4 ] a “ branch “ version of that representation with contributions by civil hackers. Continuing this divine guidance from the software development populace, the fork content can then be “ merged “ back into the government agency ‘s web site. g0v is a residential district that promotes the transparency of government information and is committed to developing information platforms and tools for citizens to participate in society. As of the begin of 2014, there have been contributors across three continents, and the results have been released in a loose software model that embraces cognition share .

origin [edit ]

The “ substantial price ” incidental [edit ]

Amidst popular unrest regarding notional house inflation, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou made housing judge a key component of his 2012 re-election platform. In an attempt to counter speculation and enable clean tax, the parliament passed a bipartisan bill mandating that all substantial estate transactions register the actual price.

As separate of the mandate, the Ministry of the Interior commissioned a web site on which people can find transaction records by street address. The web site went bouncy on October 16 to a flood of requests and remained only intermittently accessible for most of October. Three days after the launch, a team of four Google.tw engineers incorporated the Ministry ‘s data into their Real-Price Maps web site, overlaying aggregated pricing information on Google Maps with a overplus of filtering features. Their remix was well-received, successfully serving hundreds of requests per second from Google App Engine. A week late, Minister without portfolio Simon Chang ( a Google alum himself ) invited the remixers to a beat table. The team responded affably, offering detail suggestions about how they would like to collaborate with the government. however, after media coverage pitted the team ‘s shoestring budget of NTD $ 500 against the official site ‘s “ million-dollar catastrophe ”, the relationship between the two soon turned false. The Ministry claimed the crawl action contributed to their waiter ‘s downtime, while critics of the engineers ‘ sheathing questioned the legality of scraping and remixing government data. The incident came to a head on November 14, when the official web site replaced all street addresses with image files, dramatically increasing the load of crawling. Despite the fact that a civil hacker finally published parsed data using OCR techniques, the Real-Price Maps site closed soon thereafter .

“ Power-Up design for the Economy ” [edit ]

While the real Price incident was inactive unfold, a new government production took the spotlight : A 40-second video ad titled “ What ‘s the Economy Power-Up Plan ? ” Critics found the ad, “ entirely barren of information, the clip merely repeated the following humdrum abstain : ‘We have a identical complex plan. It is excessively complicated to explain. Never mind the details — barely follow instructions and go along with it ! ‘ ” [ 5 ] The television faced criticism from the public, but went viral ; many viewers on YouTube protested the ad by clicking “ report maltreatment ” on the video. The automatize system quickly classified the television as spam and banned the politics ‘s YouTube history for two days. The video recording went on-air again on October 19, just before Yahoo ! open Hack Day 2012, an annual 24-hour event in which 64 teams demonstrate advanced creations. Infuriated by the controversial ad, the four members of the “ Hacker # 15 ” team made a last-minute pivot from their “ on-line window shopping ” project. Rather than displaying merchandise, they resolved to create a bird’s-eye view of how taxes are spent. The resulting Budget Maps project presented each representation ‘s annual spend in the form of geometric shapes of proportional sizes, inviting participants to review and rate each detail ‘s utility. Calling upon citizens to “ strike out heist outgo ( e.g. the Power-Up ad ) ”, [ 6 ] the two-minute show won NTD $ 50,000 in Hack Day prizes.

In an try to bolster interest in this and future projects past the demonstration sidereal day, team member CL Kao registered the sphere name g0v.tw, dedicated to citizens ’ remixes of government websites. The Real-Price Maps thus became accessible at lvr.land.moi.g0v.tw before its closure, with only one ASCII quality of difference from its official counterpart at lvr.land.moi.gov.tw ; meanwhile, the Budget Maps lived on at budget.g0v.tw as the inauguration g0v.tw undertaking .

Hackath0n [edit ]

Equipped with the modern g0v.tw knowledge domain, the four hackers agreed to spend the NTD $ 50k respect on their own hackathon to enlist more projects into the syndicate of civic remixes. Modeled after participant-driven BarCamp events, they named the event 0th Hackathon of Martial Mobilization, or Hackath0n, invoking a rebellious trope from Taiwan ‘s 1949-era civil war. Registrants soon exceeded the initial venue ‘s capacity. A lab director at Academia Sinica offered to host the event at the Institute of Information Science. On December 1, civic hackers filled the establish ‘s 80-person auditorium and presented their projects, covering a wide range of government functions, including Congress, Tenders, Geography, Weather, Electricity, Healthcare and many other areas. Discussion continued on-line at Hackpad and IRC well after the daylong consequence. In documentation of the gull efforts, writers and bloggers formed a Facebook group offering on-demand copywriting skills to any project that asked for aid. Designer even Wu besides initiated an on-demand plan group, providing hackers with diverse ocular assets. Dissatisfied with the makeshift logo banner, Wu would continue to work on respective iterations of the logotypes, finally completing a dress of Visual Identity guidelines aimed at helping elevate g0v into an well recognizable mark .

resolution [edit ]

g0v states, “ [ We ] have demonstrated a way to combine on-line and offline activism. Following the model established by the Free Software community over the by two decades, we transformed social media into a platform for social production, with a in full open and decentralized cultural & technological framework. ” g0v summarizes its collaborative government philosophy thus : “ Ask not why cipher is doing this. You are the ‘nobody ‘ ! ” [ 6 ]

Activities and projects [edit ]

g0v community activities are both on-line and offline, including hackathons, speeches, sharing sessions, teach, league, and other activities. As of 2020 there are active g0v communities working on open politics data in Taiwan and Hong Kong. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]

g0v.tw projects [edit ]

outstanding applications and widgets created by g0v include :

  • MoeDict, a digital Chinese dictionary developed by Audrey Tang[9]
  • Cofacts, a collaborative fact-checking bot[10]

g0vhk [edit ]

The Hong Kong branch of g0v, known as g0vhk, was founded in 2016 by data scientist Ho Wa Wong. The g0v drift gained popularity in Hong Kong due to their exploit in aggregating campaigner information in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections and disseminating disease prevention news during the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]

outstanding gadgets produced by the g0vhk community include : [ 13 ]

  • Hong Kong Address Parser[14]
  • Vote 4 Hong Kong (data aggregation for the 2019 and 2020 general elections)[15]
  • Covid-19 in HK dashboard[16]

The italian branch of g0v was founded in 2019 by the Copernicani NPO. The projects are listed on their web site .

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