CGEN: Digital Democracy and a Global Pandemic: Lessons from Taiwan’s COVID-19 Response

Taiwan has been a global leader in managing the response to COVID-19. Join us as we welcome the Honorable Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister, to discuss her insights on the role of innovation and digital governance in addressing the global pandemic.

Co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the Rotman School of Management, the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, this conversation will be moderated by Professor Peter Loewen, the Munk School’s Associate Director, Global Engagement, with opening remarks by Professor Joseph Wong, Ralph and Roz Professorship of Innovation at the Munk School and U of T’s Vice President, International.

This virtual event is sponsored by the David Peterson Program in Public Sector Leadership Lecture Series, which welcomes leading policy thinkers and practitioners across the public sector, politics, business, and the media to the University to examine pressing issues. The David Peterson Program in Public Sector Leadership was established through the extraordinary generosity of The Hon. David Peterson, former premier of Ontario, U of T Chancellor Emeritus and Faculty of Law alumnus, and Shelley Peterson.

Bio:

Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.

In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.

In the social sector, Audrey actively contributes to g0v (“gov zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government.”

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