📑Read: Japan’s Team Mirai Is Rewriting What Tech in Politics Can Be
A political party using tech to strengthen democracy? Team Mirai is doing exactly that.
🇯🇵 They built AI tools that help voters understand issues, challenge assumptions, and get involved. 📈 They won 11 seats after garnering ~4M votes; massive for a new party. 🤖 Their apps drive 100k+ volunteer actions per day. 🧠 Policy ideas are crowdsourced from tens of thousands of citizen questions. 🔍 They open‑sourced tools for legislative transparency that even the ruling LDP party is adopting.
🤔Could it work elsewhere? Or are we doomed to be serfs of a techautocracy?