[Webinar Series: Leaders Shaping the Future of the Indo-Pacific] Conversation with Minister Audrey Tang
VIEW EVENT DETAILSIn collaboration with I-House, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, Shahani Associates Limited we will host a new webinar series inviting leaders from the Indo-Pacific region as speakers starting in 2021, and Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang will be our first speaker taking the platform in this upcoming session—with themes on governance, education, and creativity/technology as seen in the Covid-19 era.
Audrey TANG (Taiwan’s Digital Minister) - BIO
Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of social innovation. She 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, she has served on the Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and the 12-year basic education curriculum committee, and has also led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. In the private sector, Tang has a track record of working 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, she has actively contributed to g0v (“gov zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for civil society, with the call to “fork the government.”
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