On 24th November, Prof. Wen-ling Tu, dean of International College of Innovation & director of Centre for Innovative Democracy NCCU, participating as the panelist in this year’s FNF conference: innovation for democracy. The invited scholars and experts from this panel session include Dr. Christopher, World Ethos Institute Tübinge & Former MP and Mr. Dan Barna, Union Save Romania. Together, the panel discuss on topics such as democratic progressions, deliberative democracy, representative democracy and possibilities for democratic innovations in the post-pandemic era.

Bridging across national borders, deliberative democracy transcends conventions to new possibilities and deep-rooting new ethos to civil society. Throughout the panel session, the discussants delved into the iconic cases from different countries to explore Taiwan’s new ways of democratization under the influence of fast evolving technology. In this panel, Prof. Wen-ling Tu shared the varied experiments of deliberative democracy in Taiwan, furthermore, how democracy can be seen beyond rationality, and be voiced with emotions and empathy so that a new form of democratic ethos can be trickled down from government and further into all veins of civil society in Taiwan.