This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.

Rosa O’Hara moderates a discussion between Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi on Taiwan’s expeditious response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the history of the g0v movement, the democratic power of embracing new forms of civic technology, and more.

Audrey Tang (@audreyt) is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. She is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as for building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector, she has served on the Taiwan National Development Council’s open data and K-12 curriculum committees and has led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. In the private sector, Audrey has worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design. In the social sector, Audrey actively contributes to g0v (“gov zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government.”

Jo Guldi, PhD. (@joguldi) is an Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches courses on the history of Britain, the British Empire, modern development policy, and property law. She has published many articles about digital history methods, participatory mapping, and the history of eviction and rent control in Britain and its empire. She is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History, Brown University. Her latest book The Long Land War is about the definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world. She lives in Richardson, Texas.

Rosa O’Hara (@RosaO_Hara) is a staff writer for Noema Magazine. She previously worked had staff jobs editing for The Washington Post and HuffPost, was a contributing reporter for Newsday (NYC), and reported for The Jakarta Globe (Indonesia). She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Credits

Originally produced by Paula Berman and Rachel Knoll for 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.
Produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.
Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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