「開放國會」與民主2.0──國會資訊數位典藏與應用計畫(II)

Abstract

本計畫預計延續99年度「開放國會與公民參與」數位典藏計畫工作成果，目前已彙整立委基本問政資料，並以6項重要法案為基礎，與各個法案相關的非營利組織合作，將法案內容、投票記錄、發言討論、新聞報導、輿情反應等相關資料進行蒐集與整理，並採用開放、標準、免授權的資料格式，建立典藏網站，保存政府與民間對於法案之多元記憶。而本計畫在100年度希望除了繼續維護網站典藏資料等科技成果之外，更希冀能夠在人文應用有所深化。本計畫之目的，在於有效整合國會資訊，使之具備智慧型搜索之功能，並結合學者及非營利組織工作者，建立以研究為導向的模式，達成國會資訊的數位化，期更能符合數位公民的需求，同時推廣資訊倫理與數位人權之概念，強化民主活力。因此在執行期間，將研擬適合網路使用者參與之平台，以協同運作之概念，提供工具與機制，鼓勵非營利組織與一般民眾參與典藏工作。執行方法將開發API (The Application Programming Interface)，舉辦平台資料應用比賽，鼓勵社會大眾善用數位典藏計畫之成果。此外，本計畫並擬舉辦國會典藏研討會，邀請國內外專家、學者、非營利組織工作者，討論典藏資訊與資訊倫理、數位人權之相關議題。另外由於執行期的延長，本計畫新增兩項工作內容，一是預計將舉辦六場「公民會議」，以提供民眾對於典藏法案及立法過程的「審議式民主」(deliberative democracy)參與機會。另一項嘗試則是與「政大未來事件交易所」進行廣泛的合作，共同推動「民主2.0」計畫，以增強公民利用「開放國會」網站之誘因，深化台灣選民之公民意識，發揮監督國會之民主實踐功能。

This project is a succession of the project “Open Congress and Citizen Participation” with some extensions. The purposes of the Open Congress project include to effectively integrate the Congress information system equipped with the function of intelligent search; to establish a research-oriented model that academics should collaborate with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to reach the goal of Congress informational digitization and the needs of the digital citizens; and to promote the concept of information ethics and digital human rights, and to strengthen democratic vitality. In the first year, we have collected the contents of six Bills, including voting records, speeches discussions, news reports, public opinions and other related data. The usage of the open, standard, license-free data format data is employed. We have constructed the collection websites to save the diversity opinions and records of the governmental and private sectors toward the Bill. The workshops of Open Congress are held to promote the information Ethics and to awareness of digital human rights for the public. In the new project, we will develop a website platform for encouraging Internet users participate based on the concept of operational synergies, providing tools and mechanisms to encourage NPOs and the public involved in collection work. The Application Programming Interface (API) of congress information will be developed and used in the competition of congress application platform which encourages the website community to make good use of the results of Digital Archives project. The project will also conduct seminars that invite experts, scholars and non-profit organization workers discuss related issues of the digital archives, informational ethics, and digital human rights. In addition, we’ll like to investigate the opinion of “lay people” through the method of “consensus conference”, which was recently introduced into Taiwan and has been successfully applied to promote the deliberative democracy. We are going to cooperate with “future events trading system” of National Chengchi University, which has launched the project of “democracy 2.0” with prediction market of coming legislative election. Thus, the goal of this project is to exploring the possibility of “digital democracy” for Taiwan and to gain insight into the means for practice from a more policy-oriented perspective.