How Taiwan's 'civic hackers' helped find a new way to run the country

New social media platform Polis cuts through noise and trolling to establish consensus - and create new laws

The origin of one world always begins with its feet in another. And so it was in March 2014.

It came to be known as the Sunflower movement, a sudden three-week stand-off in 2014 between the government and Taiwanese protesters occupying parliament over a trade bill purporting to bring their country closer to China.