vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy VTAIWAN: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION METHODS ON THE CYBERPUNK FRONTIER OF DEMOCRACY In the midst of the signal failure known as the US electoral season, here’s something to be inspired about: a true story about rational deliberation on a national scale. BY: LIZ BARRY AUG 11, 2016 Editor’s note: Here at Civicist and its precursor site techPresident , we’ve long been on the look-out for new models of mass public participation in the democratic process that might effectively merge the “rough consensus and running code” practices of open-source software development with older and far larger systems of formal representation. While a few upstart parties and movements, such as the Pirate Party in Germany, Podemos in Spain, and the Net Party of Argentina have experimented with tools like “liquid democracy” for guiding their own leadership, and reformers in Iceland crowdsourced the drafting...