Summary of Panel Discussion on "Glen in Japan"
The question is how to translate "Plurality" into Japanese. Is it a technology to achieve diversity?
Yes.
Plurality is a word of Chinese origin, so please find a way to express it well in Japanese.
Shibuya Ward has 230,000 people.
The square root of the world population, about 100,000 people, is a comfortable scale to promote plurality.
We are creating a system that allows anyone to create a new local government.
John Dewey was very important to why pluralism is so successful in Taiwan.
John Dewey came during the Chinese Revolution, and one of his students, Hu Shih, built Taiwan's entire educational system. John Dewey believed that with each new technology, people would interact in new ways.
We need to create a new democracy in light of new technologies, or democracy will die
In Japan, the local government system is collapsing due to rapid population decline and aging, so we have a chance to create a new local government.
This is understandable. Audrey calls herself a "conservative anarchist."
If we value local social groups, we need innovation to ensure that those traditions are not swept away by bureaucracy.
Can you explain the talk about decentralization going in the wrong direction?
Protecting individual privacy" is a misguided conception of information governance.
What we need is not individual privacy but diverse social groups. And we need to make sure that each group is not being looked into from the outside.
The elderly have a strong voice in Shibuya Ward. If we listen to their voices, we will leave nothing to future generations. How do we avoid this problem?
I went to Miraikan yesterday. They had an exhibit on aging. This puts people in the position of the elderly and shows them what they see, technology can help us so that there is no division.
Through sensible design, we will find common solutions, not conflicts between the young and old.
Focus on opinions common to different generations, e.g., through Quadratic Voting.
What do you think about creating a second government in the provinces?
What do you know about the Combined Authority in England? New powers are created with the support of the national government. For example, Quadratic Funding allows different local governments to invest in common projects for a common purpose.
What parts of ancient Greek democracy can be used today?
A bad way to respect innovators is to treat them like gods. A good way to respect innovators is to follow their example.
If you go to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in the United States, you will see on the wall that the Constitution needs to be rewritten every 20 years. We should not be doing the democracy of the ancient Greeks now, but we should go forward as they went forward.
What are the trade-offs of digital democracy? What are the difficulties? For example, difficulties for participants.
As Hannah Arendt said, freedom from politics is one of the greatest freedoms. It is not good that people are forced to think about things that are far from their experience.
Diversity is important, not the image of a one-person, one-vote democracy
In fact, voter turnout is down and people find it difficult to even write people's names every few years, how do you get people to participate in a pluralistic system?
People are already participating in diverse societies, and they are always expressing something, and we are losing information because we don't have a system to take that information in.
Writing one's name in an election is a narrow communication channel, and information is lost.
If we have better communication channels through the development of natural language processing, we will be able to incorporate more information and have better politics.
What is the problem with blockchain in terms of privacy?
This can be verified by anyone inside the community, but not by anyone outside the community.
There is a new idea that is not this new money based blockchain, but a new community based blockchain.
Tell me more about the film.
The director is Cynthia Wade. She is an Oscar-winning documentary maker and the producer is Emmy-winning former ABC News producer Teri Whitcraft. Our goal is to provide a CC0 git-based, completely open source film where everything is freely available for people to remix.
We find it difficult to put the mechanisms into the film world.
Star Trek is a drama about different people being friends, overcoming communication barriers, and finding ways to overcome cultural barriers.
Mechanisms are only one element, diversity and action are important.
The key is to use relationships, not money. There may be an economic mechanism behind it, but it is not necessary to explain the mechanism.