👀https://t.co/62W9zdafYr - watch our interview with Audrey Tang @audreyt, Cyber Ambassador of Taiwan, former Taiwan's 🇹🇼 first Minister of Digital Affairs, the youngest minister without portfolio in Taiwanese history, from @WEF in Davos 🇨🇭
🌀Facing 50% survival odds until age 12, Audrey recorded daily learnings "in case I didn't wake up" - sparking her open-source ethos: "I don't claim copyright. Use anything I create."
💻 8-Year-Old Paper Computer Programmer.
Young Audrey:
✓ Drew QWERTY keyboard on paper
✓ "Coded" BASIC programs manually
✓ Simulated outputs with pencil/eraser
"This was computational thinking before I touched a real computer!"
🚀 14-Year-Old Dropout to Tech Founder
Left school to research online trust dynamics:
→ Co-founded Taiwan's early C2C auction platform
→ Became youngest CTO in '96 dot-com boom
→ Landed Intel investment before adulthood
🔄 Conflict → Co-Creation Framework
Her viral negotiation tactic used with Uber/Taxi wars:
1. Map emotional clusters with Polis platform
2. Identify "uncommon ground" between rivals
3. Transform regulation debates into win-win laws
🌐 Architect of Digital Democracy
Pioneered world's first:
- AI-assisted public deliberation system (vTaiwan)
- Real-time parliamentary fact-checking during live debates
- Crowdsourced constitutional amendments via blockchain
₿ Thoughts on #Bitcoin, crypto.
- Charged 1 BTC/hour consulting rate in 2013
- Made GitHub commits "paid in Bitcoin" (but took fiat)
- Early cypherpunk working on Tor/IPFS predecessors
📚 Audrey Tang’s book “Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy”, co-authored with @glenweyl and over 100 contributors.
🌱 Open Source Life Philosophy
🎶Audrey Tang’s involvment into @pro_jectliberty, which proposed transforming TikTok into a user-governed decentralized platform through their $1B+ acquisition bid.
📈 9% → 76% Gov Trust Architect
Transformed Taiwan's 2014 governance crisis:
✊ Supported Sunflower Movement's parliament occupation
🔄 Created digital public consultation model
📈 Boosted trust from 9% to 76% in 4 years