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Open Source Beats Authoritarianism
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What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concerns and preferences are elicited in a way that respects each person’s community, dignity, and importance? This is what Audrey Tang has worked toward as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister, a position the free software programmer has held since 2016. She has taken the best of open source and open culture and successfully used them to help reform her country’s government. Tang speaks with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley about how Taiwan has shown that openness not only works but can outshine more authoritarian competition, wherein governments often lock up data.Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), March 2024

I think the main intervention I personally did back in the days when I run the MoEdict or the Ministry of Education Dictionary project in the GovZero movement was that we very prominently say that although we reuse all the so-called copyright reserve data from the Ministry of Education, we relinquish all our copyrights under the then very new Creative Commons 0, so that they cannot say that we're stealing any of the work, because obviously we're giving everything back to the public.
So by serving the public in an even more prominent way than the public service, we make ourselves not just the natural allies, but kind of reverse mentors of the young people who work with cabinet ministers, but because we serve the public better in some way, they can't just take entire website design, the entire Unicode interoperability, standard conformance, accessibility, and so on, and simply tell their vendors and say, you know, you can merge it.
You don't have to pay these folks a dime.
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And naturally, then the service increases and they get praise from the press and so on.
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