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Can technology create a democracy that’s fast, fair … and even fun? Digital minister Audrey Tang shares how Taiwan avoided a COVID-19 shutdown in early 2020 through innovations like developing apps to map mask availability, crowdsourcing ideas that could become laws and creating a “humor over rumor” campaign to combat disinformation with comedy. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED science curator David Biello and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded June 1, 2020.)
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Honest Person
July 7, 2020 at 2:01 pm
“Invite that person into co-creation workshops, but we are OK with that too” 12:43. What an interesting euphemism.
PDIS: Public Digital Innovation Space
July 7, 2020 at 11:41 pm
Hi! Here is literally the co-creation workshop in 2017:
The person presenting at 25m50s in that video was 卓志遠, the initiator of the petition “Tax-filing software is explosively difficult to use”.
We co-created the tax-filing experience in 2018 which had a 94%+ “satisfied” & “very satisfied” rating.
MK C
July 7, 2020 at 2:10 pm
How much did Mr2. Tang pay for giving a speech here..? We’ve seen how she used digital innovations to manipulate democracy in TW, awesome.. 🤮
Dossier SCP
July 7, 2020 at 2:12 pm
*Spoiler : they can’t*
Marco Pisano
July 7, 2020 at 2:22 pm
Give a Tedtalk on Make-up
L N
July 7, 2020 at 2:27 pm
will these apologist of digitalization eat digits? will agricultural sector and others produce real food or digits? what about their health and lives in quarantine condition? or their lives do not matter?
Booty Popper
July 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm
The man is right only we don’t have a civil society in America or anywhere anymore. I don’t even have civility within my own family. They are constantly wearing me down when I try to explain the simplest things about being cautious in this pandemic. They say “nobody tells me what to do”.🙄
DDPWE
July 7, 2020 at 7:30 pm
Just understanding the ‘American Way’, eh?
rwlock24
July 7, 2020 at 3:06 pm
Just more new world order shilling. Ted is cancer.
Chris Jane
July 7, 2020 at 3:08 pm
Democracy needs to be modernized. We need to incorporate block chain technology into the way we run the country.
Booty Popper
July 7, 2020 at 3:12 pm
The cheetah rules.🐆 and the white Anglo Saxon hum dinger 👻
Sandile Mkhize
July 7, 2020 at 3:16 pm
Wow, Audrey & Taiwan are truly impressive
stephen j
July 7, 2020 at 3:53 pm
Sandile Mkhize feel free to visit our beautiful country after corona
Sandile Mkhize
July 7, 2020 at 3:59 pm
@stephen j I definitely will. Greetings from South Africa
alexhibhib
July 7, 2020 at 3:28 pm
Truly inspiring!
alias kurian kunnumel
July 7, 2020 at 3:50 pm
Thanks again thank goodness
David Chuang
July 7, 2020 at 4:10 pm
I have a disgusted feeling everytime I see his(or her?) face.
Martin Macak
July 7, 2020 at 4:17 pm
Digital inovation is making democracy weak, amazon, google and apple run moder democracy, thats not strengthened but weaken
Fadli Marjan
July 7, 2020 at 4:20 pm
Amazing….Best Conten..🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Juevos Rants Youtube
July 7, 2020 at 4:25 pm
new world order technocracy
nuitNo.6
July 7, 2020 at 4:42 pm
Audrey Tang, is this actually Tang Boxxy?
bandong168
July 7, 2020 at 4:45 pm
This is brilliant! If only we have a digital minister like Audrey Tang in Singapore…
Ty Fuller
July 7, 2020 at 4:52 pm
Bill gates approve this video
John Chapman
July 7, 2020 at 5:05 pm
This guy looks a lot hotter in the thumbnail
Thomas Serrano
July 7, 2020 at 6:32 pm
The title gave me a good laugh.
DDPWE
July 7, 2020 at 7:23 pm
That’s absolutely brilliant! Taiwan actually cares about their civilians, that’a amazing the things they’ve done to help everyone. Then the masks for free as well. Do they have a problem with people throwing them all over the place? I can only imagine how bad it’d get here if they were given out for free.
Maybe the west will take this as seriously as the east has, because they’ve be ready for over a decade for this! We’ve just been ignoring every warning from all the people who said it was coming, was just a matter of when! smh
Semper Fortis
July 7, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Remember Taipei is the true capital of China.
The CCP was and is merely a Chinese staffed Russian entity.
Bob Bernstein
July 7, 2020 at 7:43 pm
Excellent example of science-based leadership!!
K
July 7, 2020 at 11:00 pm
I recommend hitting the three dots in the upper right hand corner and turning on captions.
Sam Wong
July 7, 2020 at 11:53 pm
Hker in europe, it prof, glad to see him at the stage showing us how strong Taiwan really s in this aspect, bravo
Ps his accent s great
S B
July 8, 2020 at 1:40 am
Should this happen first in Taipei instead of Wuhan… I’m sure your democratic tools would have stopped the virus from spreading.
Tracy Chang
July 8, 2020 at 1:57 am
Proud of Taiwan 🇹🇼
joe.public
July 8, 2020 at 3:21 am
Hold on why was a young boy required to wear a mask at all? It is absolutely delusional to enforce these things.
If your idea of democracy is believing every over blown statement by Govt officials and the mocking bird media, I want nothing at all to with it.
When TED first started it was brilliant. Over the years it has steadily deteriorated to the point now, that fascism is trying to sold as democracy.
adeceptikon
July 8, 2020 at 10:26 am
Thank you china for the viruses. Covid, tiktok, etc etc
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
July 8, 2020 at 3:40 pm
I love this conversation. Thank you so much for talking deeply how digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy. Lovely watching and listening to both of you here on the top of the Italian mountain.
Eiva L'uscita
July 8, 2020 at 3:58 pm
Digital minister-what a surprising position. Is this unique to Taiwan or are there many countries that currently have well-informed people working under such status?
Eiva L'uscita
July 8, 2020 at 4:03 pm
Seems like the Ticket to a successful management is by not following bias and private funded WHO.
melmusica
July 8, 2020 at 4:39 pm
Never been more proud to be Taiwanese American ! Woohooo what a wise badass
ch_profits guan
July 12, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Proud to be a Taiwanese is like proud to be an American, it’s meaningless, a Narrow minded person like Trump, or a person who has low self-esteem who would inflate something to look greater than it really is like Trump. It’s weakness, not virtue.
Martyr4JesusTheChrist
July 9, 2020 at 1:49 am
We are *NOT* in a pandemic = How can you test positive for something that has not been isolated? The RT-PCR is a manufacturing technique to replicate DNA billions of times, NOT a test to diagnose for viruses as the Nobel Peace Prize winner Ph.D Karry Mullis made clear and thus this supposed “TEST” is 100% false positive not 50%.= “The reason is that the intended use of the PCR was, and still is, to apply it as a manufacturing technique, being able to replicate DNA sequences millions and billions of times, and not as a diagnostic tool to detect viruses.” Jun 27, 2020 COVID19 “PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless” off-guardian DOT org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/
Rennis
July 10, 2020 at 8:26 am
Thank you for the very cool credible source
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July 10, 2020 at 1:29 pm
What happened to hello, my name is B and my invited lecturer is C and he works at D and wrote E ???
F JO
July 11, 2020 at 6:13 am
Yes, we are so lucky to have her, our digital minister ❤️
John Martin
July 11, 2020 at 5:50 pm
5G is causing the Coronavirus, and enhancing peoples emotions and egos to the point where what you are seeing going on the world, I can prove it!