Unconditional transparency may boost a democracy's efficiency.

It's an interesting time for t3n to bring this topic back into our timelines. A good idea in my opinion: An interview with Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister.

Perhaps with decisive tools, the current political willingness to act, which is expressed in remarkably quick decisions, unbureaucratic assistance and a commitment to all people in society without exception, could also be saved in the future after the crisis and thus create a democratic society that is indeed fit for the challenges of the 21st century.

Radical transparency results in the situation that "the task of politics would then be less to propose things and more to communicate and implement them", concludes Jan Vollmer. In the following, would this not only meet the needs in these fast-moving times, but also empower citizens to participate meaningfully in political processes, which nowadays often have profound consequences for their private lives? 

Julius Betschka (editor at Tagesspiegel, Berlin's leading newspaper) posts on Twitter today: "In the #Coronavirus crisis, a rift is widening: between those who actively consume news & those who inform themselves only through their Facebook feed. This rift runs through all levels of society. We must find ways to inform the latter as soon as possible."

While the problem of an allegedly "all-powerful facebook-newsfeed" has become obvious in 2015 - at the latest since Cambridge Analytica - there seems to be the right time to address the challenging " again. Could a critical mass of those who are aware of this challenge to journalism now come together and thus have a rethink as a consequence, which could lead to a matured society?Could this be the moment when the members of a society manage to leave their filter bubble? Is health the decisive topic that makes people return to rationality? Does this issue empower people to reclaim the internet for good?