[Metalab-announce] Lastminute Reminder - Heute 18:00 - Vortrag über Protest, Communities, Regierungen und Transparenz

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*THE SUNFLOWER MOVEMENTOnline Communities, Governments And Transparency*
*a lecture by Audrey Tang*


Metalab
Rathausstraße 6
1010 Wien
Samstag, 4.Oktober, um 18:00

https://metalab.at/wiki/Talk_by_Audrey_Tang


Shortbio

A self-educated programmer and translator based in Taiwan, Audrey
currently works with the Taiwanese civic movement g0v, as well as at
Apple on localization and release engineering. Audrey has previously
designed and led the Pugs project, the first working Perl 6
implementation, and served in language design committees for Haskell,
Perl 5, and Perl 6. Some of Audrey’s recent works include a
multilingual dictionary visited by millions of people every month and
a collaborative web spreadsheet that powered numerous civic movements.


g0v

g0v.tw is an online community that pushes information transparency,
focusing on developing information platform and tools for the citizens
to participate in society. Substituting the “o” with “0″ in gov, the
new “g0v” not only stands for rethinking the role that the government
plays from the bottom up, but also represents the world view of 0 and
1 in the digital natives generation. Based on the spirit of open
source, g0v cares about freedom of speech and open data, writing code
to provide citizens the easy-to-use information service. The
transparency of information can help citizens to have a better
understanding on how the government works, to understand the issues
faster and to avoid media monopoly, so they can monitor the government
more efficiently, and become involved in actions and finally deepen
the quality of democracy.


Thema

Audrey Tang wird über die Besetzung des Taiwanesischen Parlaments im
Frühjahr 2014 erzählen, durch die ein Freihandelsabkommen mit China
(CSSTA) transparent und diskutierbar gemacht wurde und im Endeffekt
auch verhindert wurde. Durch Open Source Plattformen haben
AktivistInnen Informationen zugänglich gemacht, die zu einem
demokratischeren Umgang mit politischen Entscheidungen geführt haben.
Audrey Tang wird über eine dieser Plattformen namens g0v sprechen und
die neuesten Aktivitäten um #OccupyCentral und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit
code4hk beschreiben.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang