Plurality: How Taiwan Managed to Unite Its People Through Tech
- Audrey Tang𝕏•
- Glen Weyl
In a world constantly torn by social division amplified by polarizing scissor statements throughout social media, Taiwan conducted a social experiment aimed at strengthening social unity while also embracing diversity. Plurality details how Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang and her collaborators achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth that harnessed digital tools to provide an antidote to information chaos and warfare. The open-source book is living proof that present global challenges can be solved through democratic solutions that embody a decentralised ethos.
Topics:
- How Audrey & Glen met and Plurality’s genesis
- Audrey’s journey from civic hacker to Taiwan’s Digital Affairs Minister
- How democracy is perceived around the world
- Establishing a co-creating mentality
- Scissor statements and how to avoid division
- How Polis works
- Leveraging Web3 to strengthen democracy & social collaboration
- Decentralised co-ownership
- Web3 governance
- Human facilitators
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Host:Friederike Ernst