The Problem Is How Fast Are You Getting Feedback?

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The public sector builds a prototype such as the masqumat, even though they may not have the resources to maintain it for very long. The specification is already written by the social secto. Thereis already rough consensus. We already know that people want the mask map. So all we have to do is to shorten the interval on which we published the pharmacy stock level information from one day to 30 seconds. Tis literally the only thing we did. Because now even gugo promised to say that we were housed essentially the mask map for free. And so because of that, that happened in forty eight hours.

[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.