Online community g0v pushes Taiwanese government to fully embrace transparency and accessibility. Last March, during the protests against a trade deal with China - dubbed the Sunflower Movement - g0v community helped organising demonstrations, bringing food to the occupiers, serving tea to police officers and keeping the public up to date. g0v’s communityaims at inspiring a real social change by bridging the existing gap between offline and online activism; one of the core principles is to make government mechanisms more understandable to ordinary people and thus invite citizens to participate in its improvement. A collaborative ethos pervades the whole organisation which proves its belief by using open source platforms in order to promote stakeholders engagement. g0v’s commitments have been demonstrated in various occasions, one of the most impressive is undoubtedly the 24-hour digitization of political donation records: public access to campaign donation documents was exclusively permitted for the paper version, in-person and at a government office; this action allowed to implement Taiwan’s Campaign Donation Act of 2004 and to amend transparency laws. The movement doesn’t limit its actions to single episodes; it regularly hosts hackathons to physically gather supporters so to focus on current problems and brainstorm solutions. In addition to this, it has recently launched its first international conference to promote discussion on hot topics such as open data, civic technologies and participatory government. The uniqueness of g0v’s community lies in its bottom-up and horizontal structure that allows making citizens’ voice heard, and emphasizes the importance of each contributor. By using real-time collaborative platforms such as Hackpad, GitHub, Google Drive, and EtherCalc, as well as relying on the valuable help of the Sunlight Foundation, Microsoft Azure, and other academic, private, and public sponsors, g0v keeps on evolving fast and growing both locally and internationally to pursue its honourable objectives. gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Thursday, 20 November 2014 (Source: Tech President)