Audrey Tan on Digital Democracy
A case study of the debate on whether to change the time zone in Taiwan Can agree to disagree head-on p. 115
Whether to set Taiwan's time zone to GMT+9 or keep it at GMT+8
Compromising and shifting it by 30 minutes satisfies no one.
I listened carefully to why they wanted to change time zones.
- I want to be "different from China, same as Japan and Korea."
- Values we can agree on with those we want to maintain: "We want Taiwan to be a country with a unique presence."
Calculate the cost of time zone change
- Can we use this budget to come up with ideas for common values that will make Taiwan more unique, instead of using it to change time zones?"
- We reached an agreement in a mutually productive direction.
- The time zone was not changed, but those who insisted on the change were satisfied.
- Because their values were recognized and actions were carried out based on them.
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