Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)

[This episode originally aired on July 23rd, 2020.]
Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and
technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely
transparent and audio and video of all conversations between
lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public immediately.
Conspiracy theories are acted upon within two hours and replaced
by humorous videos that clarify the truth. Imagine that
expressing outrage about your local political environment turned
into a participatory process where you were invited to solve that
problem and even entered into a face to face group
workshop. 

Does that sound impossible? It’s ambitious and optimistic, but
that's everything that our guest this episode, Audrey Tang,
digital minister of Taiwan, has been working on in her own
country for many years. Audrey’s path into public service began
in 2014 with her participation in the Sunflower Movement, a
student-led protest in Taiwan’s parliamentary building, and she’s
been building on that experience ever since, leading her country
into a future of truly participatory digital democracy.