carl miller's been looking at a new tool that's hoping to reboot democracy and find common ground even the most polarised of views. and it's being used in a most unexpected place, thousands of miles away from brexit. yeah here i am in taiwan, a place that is sometimes known as technology island. it is famous for producing semi conductors, but now it is using technology to disrupt a completely different kind of industry, one we often don't link to computers. democracy itself. the disruption began with the 2014 sunflower revolution, when citizens stormed the legislative parliament after trade laws were brought in. like brexit in britain, it split the country in half, not least because many thought it brought taiwan too close to china. but mostly because they felt their views, theirfears were ignored by those in power. amongst the crowd was a new kind of protester, called civic hackers. as well as marches and banners, civic hackers use the power of computers and data. they've come up with new ways of making decisions, and astonishingly, got the government on—side to ask them for help, so

here's carl miller.t wars stemming from genuine differences of opinion have been part and parcel of wikipedia since the very beginning. so is vandalism which is why wikipedia has created ways to combat it with a mixture of bots and editors with special powers patrolling the platform day and night. but what's to stop people or even worse governments and regimes from manipulating the site for their own ends? it's something that's bothered me instinctively for over a year now. what first got me on this track with these two documents. both initially written in chinese but we had them translated into english, one is written by a chinese official. the other was written by a couple of academics. they present a playbook for how wikipedia operates strategies to influence the platform and argue there are strong reasons for doing so. strategies such as creating teams to edit on the platform and cultivating opinion leaders and using different rhetoric to change and rebalance china's image. both papers stress what a

here's carl miller.ikipedia has created ways to combat it, with a mixture of bots and editors with special powers patrolling the platform day and night. but what's to stop people or even worse, governments and regimes, from manipulating the site for their own ends? it's something that's bothered me instinctively for over a year now. what first got me on this track were these two documents. both initially written in chinese, but we had them translated into english. one is written by a chinese official. the other was written by a couple of academics. they present a playbook for how wikipedia operates — strategies to influence the platform and argue there are strong reasons for doing so. strategies such as creating teams to edit on the platform, and cultivating opinion leaders, and using different rhetoric to change and rebalance china's image. both papers stress what a vital source of information wikipedia is for the people around the world who read it, but complain that it contains misleading and prejudic

here's carl miller.with special powers patrolling the platform day or night. but what is to stop people — or even worse, government regimes — from manipulating it for their own ends? it's something that's bothered me instinctively for over a year now. what first got me on this track were these two documents. both initially written in chinese but we had them translated into english. one is written by a chinese official. the other was written by a couple of academics. they present a playbook for how wikipedia operates, strategies to influence the platform and argue there are strong reasons for doing so. strategies such as creating teams to edit on the platform and cultivating opinion leaders and using different rhetoric to change and rebalance china's image. both papers stress what a vital source of information wikipedia is for the people around the world who read it, but complain that it contains misleading and prejudiced content against china's national and governmental image. but this isn'tjust a proble