# RightCon Combined Submission

Email address *
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[e-mail]

Alternative contact email
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[e-mail]

Affiliation *
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g0v, Open Culture Foundation, Talk to NYC, Composites Collective, Public Lab, Civic Tech Toronto

Session ID number *
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611

Updated Session Title *
Titles should be engaging -- this is the headline that will get participants to attend your session! It should be no longer than 120 characters long.
> ~~We can do it! Consensus-building at scale through citizen-led facilitation: A workshop for aspiring nobodies~~
> ~~We can do it! Empathic consensus-building via large-scale citizen-led facilitation: A workshop for aspiring nobodies~~
> ~~We can do it! Citizen-led consensus-building at scale: A workshop for aspiring nobodies~~
> We can do it! Empathic, citizen-led consensus-building at scale: A workshop for aspiring g0v nobodies

Session Description *
This should be similar to the "Please describe what you want to do in your session" part of the proposal, and be updated as a session description. This information will be public facing and will be available on our online program / schedule platform. This shouldn't be more than a few paragraphs long, and might include some of the outcomes you wish to achieve at the session.

> ~We would like to invite School of Data participants to engage with us on the topic of open consultation. In our definition of open consultation, citizens, scholars, the public sector and private sector, engage in deliberation to reach rough consensus on issues in the public sphere and help government craft public policies and programs. There is an ever adapting process based in the civic tech community in Taiwan that helps government have an open consultation with citizens on crafting legislation. Our workshop will start with a brief description of Taiwan’s open consultation process. We will then open the floor to discussion so everyone can share knowledge around participatory processes. Within this discussion we will bring focus to NYC issues that can benefit from an open consultation, and brainstorm ways to tackle these issues using knowledge gained from Taiwan and other experiments. The content we will contribute to this conversation will include Taiwan’s structured conversation methods and case studies to emphasize the unexpected breakthroughs happening with the vTaiwan process and the use of AI-powered surveying tool, [Pol.is](http://pol.is/).

> Together with the RightsCon community, we want to dream about a future of consent-based governance through a hands-on exploration of on/offline tools and methods for building our digital futures. The small island country of Taiwan, with its long history of occupation, is now leading the world in participatory democracy. Their largely unknown open consultation methods will sound revolutionary to jaded ears within and alongside the embattled democracies of the West. At its core, their facilitation process is profoundly human, yet also finds traction in the 21st century 1) through moments of assistance by an opensource algorithm that breaks people out of echo chambers rather than placing us within them 2) through harnessing the power of digital surveillance to create serious conversation, by keeping "receipts" of in-person and remote deliberation. Together these futuristic facilitation practices bring radical transparency to how we collectively decide to govern divisive social issues, producing high-levels of consensus while protecting minority rights and having everyone leave the table with the feeling of being treated fairly.
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> We will begin by situating the practices within the civic hacker uprising that fostered it, through a community steward's first-hand account of Taiwan's g0v (gov zero) movement. We will then lead participants through a role-playing experience, where they will learn about the ORID structured conversation method, the open source algorithm Polis, other open source tools for accountability and transparency in large-scale group decision making, open source tools for maintaining trust and consent, success stories of these methods being deployed at scale.
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> Finally, we will open the floor to discussion so everyone can share knowledge around participatory processes. People will walk away with a renewed belief in rational deliberation at scale, and tools to put it into practice in their communities.

Moderator *
Please add the name of your CONFIRMED moderator leading your session. IMPORTANT. Please list only their name, with title and affiliation in brackets. Example: Nick Dagostino (RightsCon Director, Access Now)
> Patrick Connolly (Civic Tech Toronto, g0v)

Speaker #N *
Please add the name of a CONFIRMED speaker joining your session. IMPORTANT. Please list only one speaker per answer field, listing their name, with title and affiliation in brackets. Example: Nick Dagostino (RightsCon Director, Access Now).
> Audrey Tang (PDIS, Taiwan Executive Yuan, g0v)
> Claudina Sarahe (Talk to NYC, Composites Collective, Polis, g0v)
> Darshana Narayanan (Talk to NYC, Composites Collective, Polis, g0v)
> Liz Barry (Public Lab, Composites Collective, g0v)
> Wu Min Hsuan (Open Culture Foundation, g0v)

Session Format / Room Layout- Primary Preference *
Please list your number one preference for your session's room layout.
> 'In the round' (also known as Fishbowl)

Session Format / Room Layout- Secondary Preference *
Please list your number one preference for your session's room layout.
> Workshop - multiple round tables

Conference Day Preference
Speaker unable to attend a certain day? Please indicate your preference for scheduling your session. Note that listing a preference is optional, and may lessen the likelihood of receiving a room with your preferred layout/format. Also please note that speaker conflicts and other realities may prevent optimal scheduling for your session, but that we will do our best to ensure basic scheduling needs are met.
> None

Other
Is there anything else you'd like to share with us?
> Audrey Tang may appear remotely through video. Ability to re-arrange seating in the space will be important to role-playing and demonstrating the important of room layout to the proper holding of space. See: https://i.imgur.com/IHSctkx.png