Audrey Tang: Plurality – The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

03.08.2024, 17:00 – 19:00 @ Bitwäscherei, Neue Hard 12, 3. Stock, 8005 Zürich | free

Digital technology has catalyzed polarization, inequality, loneliness and fear. The book Plurality details how former Digital Minister Audrey Tang and her collaborators – architects of Taiwan’s internationally acclaimed digital democracy – achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth that harnesses digital tools to strengthen both social unity and diversity.

From intimate digitally empowered telepathy to global trade running on social networks rather than money, Plurality offers tools to radically enrich relationships while making sure we leave no one behind.

The ideas promise to transform every sector from health care to media, as illustrated by the way it has been written: as a chorus of open, self-governing collaboration of voices from around the globe.

Engage with Audrey Tang on the future of collaborative technology and democracy and what Switzerland can learn from this. More details are coming soon.

Partner: Republik, COSS ETH Zurich

About Audrey

Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s first Digital Minister (2016 – 2024) and the world’s first non-binary cabinet minister. She has been a key contributor to g0v (“Gov Zero”), a decentralised civic tech movement in Taiwan, that promotes transparency in government, information sharing, and helped develop a participatory democracy framework. Tang played a key role in the success of the 2014 Student Sunflower Movement, which ultimately resulted in her being invited to join the government as a Minister without a portfolio in 2016 before the creation of The Ministry for Digital Affairs (moda) in 2022. During her time in government, Tang played a pivotal role in Taiwan’s world-leading Covid-19 digital response.

In Tang’s new book, Plurality, co-authored with E. Glen Weyl and a community of contributors, a new vision is laid out for how technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists might come together to use technology to build a more collaborative, diverse, and productive democratic world.

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