Audrey Tang
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese minister known for her innovative use of technology in public service and citizen engagement. This interview reveals her leadership style as one that mobilizes people around shared goals and encourages active participation in democracy.
“There is much more factory farming, that's exactly right. On the other hand, of course, people understand how animals suffer more. And so that leads to more people understanding the animal welfare and animal right angles. It also leads to innovations such as the impossible burger, the future of meat, and things like that.”
“But why not do both? I mean, you can definitely take the Sunneman Lake and just in the Son Lake have a conversation and watch together how it works in Mumbai and vice versa. I mean, we just had a Asia-Pacific social innovation partnership award.”
“Well, of course that between one and one million there is many, many assuming levels, I mean if you look at a open street map but you can only zoom to the globe or zoom to an individual block in a city or even just to an individual level then that map is not very useful at all.”
“I don't know because outrage is the beginning of social movement. The thing is where do you direct the outrage to? If it's directed to revenge, that is to say hurting imaginary or real people, or if it's directed to, I don't know, discrimination, which is lowering other people's social status without elevating one's own.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 97. How to fight fake news and strengthen democracy (Audrey Tang)
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