Plurality: How Taiwan Managed to Unite Its People Through Tech

Plurality: How Taiwan Managed to Unite Its People Through Tech

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