I think advocacy, in the old days, is just about getting the decision-makers in the government to change a regulation or a law. But, as the examples I just showed illustrate, advocates can also be co-creators. If you think the mask distribution is not fair, you can propose a new distribution method using the same open data as evidence. If you think that requiring real names in the nightlife district is too much of a burden, then you can innovate and invent a scratch pad real contact system. If you think that the National Budget is very boring to read, you can invent a very nice visualization system. So all of these social innovations, I think, are at the core of the public co-creation spirit and most of our work is to make a public infrastructure in the digital world, so that such innovations can reach a lot of people.

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