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How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic

🇹🇼Taiwan’s Initial Success Is a Model for the Rest of the World

《Foreign Affairs, FA》是美國最具影響力的國際事務暨外交政策期刊，對於全球外交政治圈，扮演議題倡議者的角色。這個月 20 號，FA 刊登了一篇專文，名為 ＜如何以「公民科技力量」抑制疫情氾濫 − 台灣模式的成功為世界立下典範＞，「台灣模式」（Taiwan Model）四字貫穿全文，分析台灣如何以一個島國，而且是被 WHO 排除在外的小國，結合科技和民間力量，在災情下，比科技領頭大國的美、中還堅毅。

台灣在已知病例中的發病率僅為美國的五分之一。美國的比率還不到被廣泛讚譽的新加坡的十分之一。感染仍可能再次激增，特別是隨著全球傳播使來自世界各地的遊客成為該病毒的媒介。然而，台灣最初取得成功的故事值得分享，這不僅是因為它掌握了遏制當前大流行的經驗教訓，而且還因為它掌握了應對技術和民主緊迫挑戰的廣泛經驗。

台灣的成功在於技術，行動主義和公民參與的融合。台灣是一個小型但技術領先的民主國家，生活在兩岸超級大國的陰影下，近年來，通過使技術對民主的有利而不是不利於人民，台灣發展了世界上最活躍的政治文化之一。這種公民技術文化被證明是該國對新型冠狀病毒的最強免疫反應。

Focusing on the countries that have done worst, however, may be less useful at this point than considering which country has so far done best: Taiwan. Despite being treated by the World Health Organization as part of China, and despite having done far broader testing than the United States (meaning the true rate of infection is far less hidden), Taiwan has only one-fifth the rate of known cases in the United States and less than one-tenth the rate in widely praised Singapore. Infections could yet spike again, especially with the global spread making visitors from around the world vectors of the virus. Yet the story of Taiwan’s initial success is worth sharing not just because of its lessons for containing the present pandemic but also because of its broader lessons about navigating pressing challenges around technology and democracy.

Taiwan’s success has rested on a fusion of technology, activism, and civic participation. A small but technologically cutting-edge democracy, living in the shadow of the superpower across the strait, Taiwan has in recent years developed one of the world’s most vibrant political cultures by making technology work to democracy’s advantage rather than detriment. This culture of civic technology has proved to be the country’s strongest immune response to the new coronavirus.

最具草根性的科技，最有公民意識的防疫
其實在台灣可以看到很多例子都不是由政府籌備，反而是 公、私部門互相合作 發展出來的，最厲害的是，在這些開放式平臺、及公民參與的活動中，並沒有刺激假訊息滋長，大家因為想保護彼此，有相關資訊便會在保護個資的情況下主動提供，這種風氣明顯與歐美當前的恐慌蔓延、或是中國的權威隱匿截然不同。 台灣政府也把面臨到的危機丟出來與社區對話，而非把自己塑造成一種全知者 ，好比唐鳳的所有會議都直接用串流直播。

台灣的訊息傳遞方式，也常常是從民間發起，形成公開透明且 有公民意識的防疫作戰陣線 。史丹佛醫學院報告指出，台灣這次有 124 種「抗疫」方式，迅速掌控疫情。其中很多是以社區倡議、黑客松、和一個名為 vTaiwan 的線上政策交流平台在運作。台灣人雖然分散在不同社區，但是運用通訊軟體 Slack 和 工程協作平台 HackMD 創造出許多佳績。

“As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed (or know how life or the spirit enters the body being formed) in a motherʼs womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭11:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬
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“Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A personʼs wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.
Obey the kingʼs command, I say, because you took an oath before God. Do not be in a hurry to leave the kingʼs presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
Since a kingʼs word is supreme, who can say to him, “What are you doing?” Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery. Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come? As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭8