How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy

Title:
How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy
Speaker:
Audrey Tang
Description:

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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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
49:05
Format: HTML5
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