阿宅的鍵盤革命

Abstract

近年來，出現了一群人，他們有的人是科技公司裡的工程師；有的人是程式自由工作者；有些人甚至是頂尖電腦黑客。在他們之間的共同點是，他們都擁有程式專業以及對改造社會的熱情，並運用自身能力幫助人們。 八仙塵暴後，他們在短短幾小時內，利用台北市資訊局、各醫院的資料，建立傷者資料查詢系統、捐血資料查詢系統等，讓民眾可以在一個平台上，迅速找到原本分散的資訊；為了讓民眾了解政治人物的財務狀況，他們利用圖形辨識系統，加上鄉民力量，將六十筆萬筆政治獻金資料電子化釋出，使政治更加透明。 不管是哪個專案，擅長用自己擅長的程式能力解決問題是他們的特色。這群工程師將這個專長發揮，當社會出現問題時，總是第一個跳出來除錯。雖然大眾鮮少注意到他們，這些阿宅們其實散落在社會各個角落，企圖用自己的專長打造這個世代的鍵盤革命。 本深度報導將以擁有不同程式專長，並在各領域發揮，讓社會變得更好的工程師們為報導主體出發，描述工程師們的背景，以及為何投入鍵盤革命的原因與歷程。各章以個人故事帶出社群生態，深入觀察各社群的合作方式以及特色，並且探討網路參與式民主在台灣的發展性以及可能遇到的問題。

During these years, there are groups of people who have coded professionally, begin to contribute their ability to Taiwan society. These engineers come from different fields, including web developers, high-classed programmers, elite hackers and so on. The same character of these people is the passion on reforming the society. When fire accidents happened in Formosa Fun Coast, these hackers immediately create an infomation system, which provides the details of the victims and hospitals to help people organize the separated information. They also use the software of pattern-match system and the helps fromcrowds power, turning six hundred thousand campaign finance profiles to be digitalized. It makes politics more transparent. They are good at coding ability to solve problems. When “bugs” happened in Taiwan society, they would find it and “debug”. Although they are neglected , these hackers still dedicate their professionals to create the “keyboard-revolution”. This in-depth report focuses on these hackers, describing their backgrounds and kinds of “keyboard-revolution”. Based on interviewing, each chapter will tell different stories about different programming groups. In the end, this report also discuss the development and the dilemma of participatory democracy online in Taiwan.