Digital Democracy Is Within Reach — with Audrey Tang

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.