Digital Democracy: What Europe can learn from Taiwan. Bertelsmann Stiftung September 2020.

Hierlemann, Dominik and Roch, Stefan (2020) Digital Democracy: What Europe can learn from Taiwan. Bertelsmann Stiftung September 2020. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

On September 7 2020, Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, joined an online conversation hosted by Open Society Foundations, King Baudouin Foundation, European Movement International and Bertelsmann Stiftung. She discussed the digital innovations Taiwan had implemented in the recent past to strengthen both its democracy at large and its response to the Covid-19 crisis. Audrey Tang is not your usual minister and Taiwan is not your usual democracy. Through approaching her job with the mindset of a coder and a prodigy that thinks outside of the box, Audrey Tang helped to make Taiwan’s democracy both extremely open and extremely digital. The success of innovations such as presidential hackathons and large amounts of citizens that participate through various digital means in policy making have proven her right. In the following we want to present some of the innovations that make Audrey Tang and Taiwan’s approach so exceptional and show what Europe can learn from them.

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