“To me democracy is a form of technology, so as a technologist I’m equally excited about each and every new governance proposal and mechanism.”

In this episode, we are joined by Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang, a software programmer as well as the digital minister of Taiwan, in charge of social innovation. 

Audrey talks about what it means to be a conservative anarchist while working with the government, quadratic funding & voting, democracy tech vs. surveillance tech, loss of institutional trust, and emerging attractors for non-coercive cooperation. Listen in!

Session Summary: Audrey Tang, Taiwan Digital Minister: Tools for Openness: Asia & Beyond - Foresight Institute  

Music:

Kumasi Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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