The Inphidemic

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The county is one of the biggest targets for china's disinformation and propaganda campaign. We have tools that make no superhuman consensus levels unow available ten, which solves so many other problems down stream. And we found out the person who spread the rumor at the first place was a man called visella. For example, last week Tissue paper died within a day or two after being used in campaigns to vaccinate children against polio. So there are just deliberate narratives on both sides about how people should be Vaccinated Against The Flu (VtF), but they can't coexist if you're trying to get rid of it all by spreading conspiracy theories.

[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.