EUNICE ONG 綉雯 :)

 
‘Our government is neither transparent nor perfect. It is far from being truly open and democratic.’  
 
Nevertheless, most people do not feel that it has anything to do with them or they are able to change it. But Kiang believes that he himself can. In the real world, Kiang is an IT engineer, a homebody, a netizen, a father and a humble civilian. However, on the Internet, he can change the world. 
 
During the pandemic, he created a map app that shows the users the nearest place to get masks. During the elections, he put the court’s judgements on a map app that shows the users which candidates had bribed the voters in the past. With his knowledge of information technology, he helps the government improve the failing services. Nonetheless, the more he has done, the more he is convinced that the problems the Taiwanese government has go beyond the digital technology…
 
Democracy is not only about voting. In a democracy, information should be reasonably accessible, and the citizens are expected to participate in the public affairs. We should ask ourselves whether we truly understand what the government has done for us.

在疫情肆虐時，江明宗製作地圖，讓你知道最近的口罩在哪裡，在選舉時，他把判決書地圖化，
讓你知道哪些候選人曾經賄選過；在許多政府功能效益不彰之處，他都可以用資訊技術去補足，
但做了越多，他越發現，台灣政府的問題，可能不只在數位科技的問題上...
所謂「真相地圖」並不是指在這幅地圖上可以找到真相，它指的其實是我們在尋找真相的過程中留下的足跡，我們太習慣被餵養資訊，以致失去主動關心議題的能力...