Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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[This episode originally aired on July 23rd, 2020.] Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, helps us 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.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Tristan.
0:02.1	Lately on your undivided attention, we've been talking about democracy,
0:05.8	or rather the failures of democracy in the digital world.
0:09.4	And so this week, we wanted to offer a hopeful and working vision
0:13.2	of a digital democratic future.
0:15.8	We wanted to rerun the story of Taiwan,
0:18.0	as told in our conversation with Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tay.
0:22.1	This episode is from 2020, but it's as relevant today as ever.
0:26.5	Because oftentimes in the social media conversation,
0:28.8	it seems like our interventions and solutions and regulation
0:32.0	are just trying to get to a world with maybe 10 or 15% less toxic social media.
0:37.3	But is a slightly less toxic social media living on top of a democracy,
0:42.3	going to enable hopeful visions for how democracies can work in the 21st century?
0:46.8	What we need is a vision where technology plus democracy equals stronger democracy,
0:52.0	not just slightly less bad dysfunction.
0:55.6	So with that, here we go.
0:59.6	Imagine it's January 2021, and the United States and Western states around the world
1:07.4	decided to become 21st century digital democracies.
1:10.9	The United States hired its first digital minister.
1:13.4	We went through sweeping reforms that entailed a modernization of Congress,
1:17.5	transparency of each member's votes,
1:19.6	video of all the conversations that Congress members had with other lobbyists and guests.
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