拼裝公民科技：黑客、鄉民、與資料行動主義

Assembling Civic Technologies: Hackers, Netizens, and Data Activism

本文檢視臺灣公民科技社群「g0v 零時政府」所發動的數位行動「開放政治獻金」，並探索「開放政府資料」如何作為一個政治的過程與實踐。開放政治獻金由零時政府黑客們打造數位工具，並邀請網路鄉民加入數位化政治獻金報告書的任務，將原本被「關在」監察院裡的報告書，轉化為線上可以批次下載、分析、使用的開放資料集，進而挑戰臺灣民主化過程中黑金政治的陋習。本文指出，資料透過群眾外包的工具與方法，集結了人、機器、程式、訊號，形成一個行動的拼裝，並引發了一場政治的行動。本文借用拼裝的概念，指出政治獻金資料的政治能量並非來自它們所呈現的事實，而是資料如何集結與轉譯、拼裝與連結。資料吸引了群眾的參與協作，讓它不再只是事實再現的一種形式，而是一個政治的過程與實踐，更催生出新型態的數位參與式公民。

This article examines Campaign Finance Digitization (CFD), a data initiative launched by the civic tech community g0v (pronounced gov zero) in Taiwan. This initiative crowdsourced xiangmin (netizens) to transcribe campaign finance reports from physical documents to digital datasets to bring transparency to the bribery and corruption in politics in post-authoritarian Taiwan. The crowdsourcing technology used by CFD harnessed an assemblage of humans, machines, codes, and signals around the data; turned this gathering of human and nonhuman actors into a political movement; and made the data into a political process and practice. The political significance of CFD lies not in the “ facts” produced from the data but in the collaborative practice of opening up the data. With mass participation, the data moved beyond the descriptive form of representation to produce a new type of digital participatory citizenship.