FNF’s Hacking Democracy Convention will invite practitioners to point out us how they use knowledge science to innovate the approaches for advocacy for democracy, freedom, and human rights. Click here to affix us on Dec. 9, 2022, UTC 8-10am through webex! Mandarin Chinese language-English two-way simultaneous interpretation will likely be offered.
Hacking Democracy Convention
For democracy to thrive, it is vital that every one residents are well-informed and have the appropriate to participation within the decision-making strategy of public affairs. Nevertheless, the rising pattern of world democracy backsliding demonstrates: democracy turns into inaccessible to the folks. Along with the suppression via authoritarian regimes, long-existing consultant democracy and authorities forms someway flip democracy into one thing much like a sophisticated program that solely engineers are in a position to learn and use.
That’s why we initiated Hacking Democracy Convention. Studying from the spirit of hackers, we hope this convention explores, gathers, and evokes revolutionary concepts that allow folks to interrupt something obstructing them from understanding and accessing democracy.
How Knowledge Science Can Assist
This yr, we are going to deal with how knowledge science can innovate approaches of advocacy for democracy, human rights, and freedom. Knowledge is a crucial useful resource and foundation for advocacy of each matter for democracy and human rights. With knowledge, the folks, authorities, advocacy teams, and all of the stakeholders can focus on a factor or a coverage based mostly on details, transparency, and mutual belief. However the way to gather knowledge in a scientific means? Find out how to course of big quantities of knowledge so as to flip it into informative proof? Find out how to appropriately interpret knowledge? Knowledge science, which implies the data and methodology to gather, course of, and analyze knowledge, will assist us discover the solutions.
The Case of Transitional Justice in Taiwan
To nearer discover these questions, we are going to take a look at the instance of Taiwan”s Sick-gotten Get together Belongings Settlement Committee. The committee makes use of knowledge science to facilitate transitional justice: Members of the Committee and knowledge scientists in Taiwan have been working collectively to innovate strategies to course of and analyze huge quantities of historic paperwork in a short while. By making use of strategies comparable to Pure Language Processing and Digital Storytelling, they efficiently processed and analyzed paperwork in a shorter time and thus impressed extra initiatives on investigating and visualizing knowledge and documentations in regards to the historical past of authoritarian rule. Their work makes it simple to trace how a lot and what property needs to be returned to the federal government. It additionally sheds some mild on the decision-making course of behind large unfair trials. The Committee’s work empowers folks to research Taiwan’s time beneath authoritarian rule. Transitional Justice can thus be facilitated in a clear and participatory means. In our convention, they are going to share their expertise with the viewers, on how knowledge science can turn out to be a pressure to facilitate democracy, human rights, and freedom.
Meet our Panelists
- Tsong-Shyan Lin, Full-time Commissioner of the Sick-Gotten Get together Belongings Settlement Committee
Mr. Lin has been contributing his experience in legislation to civil society. Earlier than becoming a member of Sick-Gotten Get together Belongings Settlement Committee, he served as Deputy CEO for the Authorized Support Basis and Public Defender for Taiwan Excessive Courtroom Taichung Department and Hsinchu District Courtroom. He additionally taught in universities. He was a lecturer of Chung Yuan Christian College and Adjunct Professor Rank Specialist, Enterprise Administration, Nationwide Taiwan College.
- Helene Chien, Knowledge Journalist
Ms. Chien enjoys exploring and searching into inspiring tasks of knowledge journalism and interactive information from totally different nation world wide.Working in a protracted standing media, she tends to optimize prolonged articles by implementing digital methods. By know-how, she believes it’s potential to deliver social points nearer to the general public and discover the range of storytelling.
- Chun-Yin Lee, Analysis Assistant, Establishment of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
Graduating with a grasp diploma in Sociology from Nationwide Taipei College, Mr. Lee is a analysis assistant whose work focuses on knowledge administration and statistical evaluation in Establishment of Sociology, Academia Sinica. His analysis pursuits lie in life course and social stratification, and he’s the co-authors of Rebirth from the Quake: Scientific Investigations of Risk and Institutional Resilience after the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake in Taiwan.
- Yen-Ting Su, Knowledge Scientist
At the moment working as an information scientist within the chemical trade, Mr. Su applies knowledge science strategies to enhance manufacturing facility productiveness. He likes to make use of his skilled skill to assist others and learn to clear up every kind of issues via the facility of knowledge.
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