16. Life & Times of: Audrey Tang (Digital Minister @ Taiwan)
The Taiwan Take
English - March 02, 2021 16:13 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture ghost island podcast taiwan podcast the ghost island taiwan 鬼島之音 current affairs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Digital Minister and self-taught coding whiz Audrey Tang shares her unconventional life story – from gender identity to hacktivism, why she chose the name “Audrey 唐鳳,” and what conservative anarchism means to her.
Having come of age together with Taiwanese democracy and the Internet, Tang relates how she took her education online after dropping out of junior high. Since then, Tang has striven to make knowledge as accessible, transparent, and collaborative as possible. She explains how open data initiatives (e.g. vTaiwan, g0v) can help citizens build consensus, participate in the legislative process, and ultimately, govern themselves.
Today’s episode is hosted by J.R. Wu - Chief of the Secretariat for INDSR (Institute for National Defense and Security Research) in Taiwan. Wu is a former journalist with nearly two decades of media experience in the US and Asia. She has led news bureaus for Reuters and Dow Jones.
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