Connecting Democracies Through Communities

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Since its founding in 2012, g0v has been calling on communities to transform the society with the idea of openness and collaboration. In recent years, as multidisciplinary collaboration deepens, more people have started to realize that a democratic and free society is an essential foundation for open, collaborative communities to induce change. Universal suffrage, multi-party politics, freedom of speech, and of association. These institutional basics not only make the open spirit possible, but also ensure that citizens can actively organize themselves to push the society forward and share the necessary costs collectively. It is this collective strength that supports the contributors of a community so that it grows and flourishes.

In the Asia Pacific region, totalitarianism is expanding, civil rights and information security are under attack. Consequently, the space of open collaboration is shrinking. When open, free interaction is not safe anymore, sharing and collaboration become luxuries. Are communities more important when free speech is suppressed? How can we strengthen our ██ despite all these difficulties? What have the Hongkongers done and the Taiwanese done? To the hackers and citizens of this region and beyond, how can we move forward together?