Let's Talk with Cybozu Plurality Plurality Practices and Expectations

7/22 20:00-21:00

• Let’s talk with Cybozu Plurality Plurality Practices and Expectations

DeSciTokyo Just before FtC Tokyo “Let’s Talk Plurality Plurality Practices and Expectations with Cybozu @cybozushiki” Speakers Cybozu Mr. Takabe @t2ot2o @nishio CfJ Mr. Seki @hal_sk

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1. event overview: 1. - Name: "[[Funding the Commons Tokyo]]" (Japanese only) - Dates: July 24-25 - Size: More than 300 registered participants, about 360 including speakers - Day 1 Theme: Science Area, [[Science as a Public Good]]. - Day 2 theme: [[digital public goods]] and [[digital democracy]] - Special Guests: [[Audrey Tan]] and [[Glenn Weil]] (scheduled to visit Japan) - Streaming distribution available

2. concept of plurality:.

• Definition: technological and social movements that overcome social divisions and promote cooperation among people with different perspectives
• Key concept: “broad listening” (a technique for absorbing and reinforcing the opinions of many people)
• Background: A Response to Social Media’s Social Fragmentation in the 2010s
• Objective: Update democracy, develop technology for cooperation
• Characteristics: Respects human diversity while leveraging technology to aggregate opinions
• The relationship between the Cybozu philosophy and the concept of Plurality:
  • Cybozu Philosophy:.
    • Purpose: “To create a society full of teamwork.”
  • Values to focus on:.
    • a) Emphasis on diverse personalities
    • b) Facilitate dialogue and discussion
  • Affinity with Plurality:.
    • Respect for diversity: Cybozu’s values of “valuing diverse personalities” and Plurality’s concept of “collaboration of people with different perspectives” are aligned.
    • Importance of dialogue: Cybozu’s emphasis on “dialogue and discussion” and Plurality’s concept of “broad listening” are similar.
    • Fostering teamwork: Cybozu’s Purpose and Plurality’s “technology for collaboration” aspect are aligned.
  • Tetsuo Takabe’s view:.
    • I felt a strong affinity between Cybozu’s philosophy and the concept of Plurality.
    • This affinity was one of the factors that led to the decision to publish the Japanese version of the Plurality book
  • Expected effects:.
    • Possibility of Plurality concepts and technologies to provide useful hints for realizing Cybozu’s corporate culture and philosophy
    • Expect Plurality’s approach to be helpful in exploring new forms of teamwork and collaboration
  • The relationship between technology and humanity:.
    • Plurality’s technology can contribute to Cybozu’s goal of realizing a “society overflowing with teamwork
    • Their aspirations are aligned in terms of enhancing humanity and cooperation through technology.

3. participants and initiatives

• a) Mr. Haruyuki Seki (Representative of Code for Japan):.

  • Career: 11 years in Civic Tech, started activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
  • Perspectives: Open Source x Community x Government Fusion
  • Current Interests: digital democracy, Plurality
  • Code for Japan Activities: Citizens’ use of technology to solve social issues

• b) Mr. Yasukazu Nishio:.

  • Role: Involved in the translation of the Plurality book
  • Background of interest: Plurality as an extension of intellectual productivity improvement
  • Activity: Plurality in the campaign of [Takahiro Yasuno
  • View: Interested in future forms of governance based on AI-human cooperation.

• c) Tetsuo Takabe (Cybozu formula):.

  • Role: Japanese editor of the Plurality book
  • Interest: Relationship between technology and humanity
  • Perspectives: The Restorative Potential of Humanity through Technology

4. practice in the Tokyo gubernatorial election:.

• Candidate: Takahiro Yasuno
• Tool: “Talk to the City” (AI-based opinion aggregation system)
• Approach: Positive and participatory, different from traditional confrontational campaigning
• Feature: AI visualizes citizens’ opinions and reflects them in manifestos
• Background: Learned the concept of Plurality from Mr. Nishio and was introduced to Talk to the City by Mr. Seki

5. discussion of digital democracy and AI:.

• Key Issues: Importance of AI governance vs.
• Nishio’s view:.
  • If AI becomes smarter than humans, AI should rule.
  • However, the definition of people’s happiness needs to be done by humans
    • It is not up to one person to decide, but must be datamined that there are diverse forms of happiness
    • Without it, if an AI rules, it will impose someone else’s predetermined form of happiness.
  • So we should go in the order of digital democracy, then integrated technocracy.
• Seki’s view: the importance of human participation and deliberation
• Models discussed:.
  • Yusuke Narita’s “Politicians become cats” theory.
    • “Democracy in the 22nd Century Elections will become algorithms and politicians will become cats.”
  • Three ideologies: integrated technocracy, digital democracy, and entrepreneurial libertarianism - Ideology in the 21st Century

6. the Japanese version of the Plurality book:.

• Publication schedule: Within the year
• Current Status: Reservations are now available on Amazon
• Event Development: Booth to be exhibited
• Translation project start: approx. October 2022

7. expectations for the event

• Purpose: A place for experimentation in search of new forms of democracy
• Content: Sharing of practical examples from various municipalities, discussion of the importance of digital public goods
• Featured Session: Audrey Tan and Takahiro Yasuno in Conversation
  • Broad listening in practice
• Expected outcome: development of an ecosystem to support the public

8. other topics:.

• a) Dig DAO Community Activities:.

  • Purpose: Research and development of environment and technology to support Web 3.0
  • Origin: Derived from Web3.0 study group of [digital agency
  • Current Status: Independent from the Digital Agency with about 10 members.
  • Initiatives: Experiments with Digital Matching Funds - DigDAO Matching Donations

• b) Quadratic Funding (Quadratic Funding): The

  • Concept: New mechanism to distribute funds to more diverse options
  • Objective: Effective allocation of funds to public goods

9. discussion on the future of democracy:.

• Issue: Limitations of current representative democracy (problems with quadrennial elections)
• Suggestion: need for more frequent and concrete [citizen participation
• Direction: Explore new decision-making processes using technology
• Goal: Build a social consensus-building mechanism that is [convincing

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