The Politics of Public Safety in the United States

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In tiwan the norm is pretty strong in the sense that every person who see any unfairness on the speech, even just as simple as a car parking out of its parking space, they will take a poto and basically do a social sanction. So i think people correct themselves when they've found that it's actually not what it seems. And so is in general a positive thing that people will determine the normre ation basically to gete and investigate and resolve civilian complaints around law enforcement.

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.