Air Pollution Observation Network

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i've been really fascinated with the process that helps stimulate and create the initial proposals that go into the switches, these idea of data coalitions. Do you have an example of a problem that ultimately found an unlikely consensus? We just run a few conversations around how to make contact tracing easier. So for example, one that consensus was a helsh information recorder on your phone. And i'd love to hear a little bit more about how those operate and how they trast with other sort of data control regimes that exist in other places in the world.

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.