Imagine it's January 2021, and the United States and Western States around the world

decided to become 21st century digital democracies.

The United States hired its first digital minister.

We went through sweeping reforms that entailed a modernization of Congress.

Transparency of each member's votes.

Video of all the conversations that Congress members had with other lobbyists and guests.

Imagine a world where conspiracy theories were all acted upon within two hours and replaced

by humorous videos that actually clarified what was true.

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. That pothole in the street that's been there for four years, suddenly it's changed.

Does that sound impossible?

Well, it's ambitious and optimistic, but that's everything that our guest, Audrey Tang, digital minister of Taiwan, has been working on for her own country over the last six years.

I'm putting into practice the ideas that I learned when I was 15 years old and that's rough consensus, civic participation and radical transparency.

Audrey Tang's path into public service began shortly after student protesters in Taiwan stormed into the nation's

parliamentary building in 2014 and refused to leave until the government heard their calls for greater transparency.

There was just one problem. The protesters had no Wi-Fi. Enter Audrey, who walked in with a backpack full of Ethernet cables and

installed a system of communication that was radically open, transparent, and responsive to the public's

demands.

I personally brought like 350 meter of Ethernet cables to make sure that the truth

spreads faster than rumors that we live stream was happening in the occupied parliament

to a large project on the street where they can see in real time what's being debated and what people said in the occupied parliament.

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