Fast, Fair, Fun (with Digital Minister Audrey Tang)

How To Citizen with Baratunde

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After a life of civic hacking outside the system through efforts like vTaiwan, Audrey Tang, now Digital Minister of Taiwan, speaks with Baratunde about how to use digital tools to include people in more direct, participatory, democratic practices and her design philosophy of “fast, fair, fun.” She shows how tech can help government be more responsive to and collaborative with its citizens.

Guest: Audrey Tang

Bio: Digital Minister of Taiwan, open-source software contributor, poetician

Online: Taiwan’s Public Digital Innovation Space; On Twitter @audreyt and the hashtag #FastFairFun

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ACTIONS

- PERSONALLY REFLECT

Flexing our personal power

When have you felt justified pushing against an authority in your life? How did you do it and did it achieve your goal? If not, why not? If so, were there other unintended consequences? If you could go back in time, would you change your actions in any way?

- BECOME INFORMED

What is Open Government?

Get informed about this idea of "open government." Learn more about Audrey’s work at digitalminister.tw. If you want to go deeper, read the book Open Democracy by Hélène Landemore. It's about centering ordinary citizens in the democratic process. Find it in our online bookstore bookshop.org/shop/howtocitizen. And search social media for the hashtag #OpenGovernment to discover other related thinkers and doers helping us govern ourselves.

- PUBLICLY PARTICIPATE

Public Forums

Practice sharing your voice on an issue you care about in a public forum (not just social media). For example, you can comment on upcoming federal regulations at regulations.gov. But the real action is local, so join a participatory budgeting initiative by searching online for “participatory budgeting near me”, or attend a virtual or live city or neighborhood council meeting and offer feedback during the public comment section. Use your voice to influence a public issue. Flex your power!

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Citizen with Baratunde, a podcast that reimagines citizen as a verb,
0:07.5	not a legal status.
0:09.3	This season is all about tech and how it can bring us together instead of tearing us apart.
0:15.6	We're bringing you the people using technology for so much more than revenue and user growth.
0:20.8	They're using it to help us citizen.
0:29.3	Here in the US, the idea of social media and democracy?
0:33.6	Well, I'm not sure they even belong in the same sense.
0:37.6	Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, they tend to just be echo chambers with an
0:42.4	abundant supply of the most niche groups so you can be surrounded by your own choir.
0:49.4	But there is a country where this isn't necessarily the case.
0:55.4	Today we're going to Taiwan.
0:58.3	I repeat, Taiwan.
1:01.2	The Taiwanese government has essentially put its entire democratic system online.
1:07.6	And it works.
1:09.3	Now, of course, they have some exceptional policies in place like they got universal broadband
1:15.8	as a human right, virtual town halls, and a phone line get this where citizens can
1:22.9	talk to real people in the government about their problems.
1:29.0	And if that still isn't enough for a Taiwanese citizen to have their voice heard, they can
1:34.0	schedule a one-on-one meeting with the person at the center of all this.
1:40.0	Every Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., the digital minister of Taiwan, Audri-Tong, holds
1:45.9	open office hours.
1:48.0	For only request, you got to allow the conversation to be recorded and uploaded online in the
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