🇹🇼 Taiwan, the Future of Democracy

Across the world, democracy is in decline. From authoritarian regimes cracking down on freedoms and rights, to democracies themselves backsliding.

But one country is managing to come up with new innovative ways to live democracies every day, to engage citizens, to leverage technology. It’s Taiwan 🇹🇼. It has emerged as one of the most significant players in the effort to modernize democracy, making it inclusive and appealing to citizens again, and as such playing a fundamental role in making sure that the tide of world affairs turns once more in favor of the democratic model.

Such democratic practices have spilled over in other sectors, making Taiwan able to lead by consensus on hot topics like the online sale of alcohol or operations of Uber in the country, or to have a very effective response to the pandemic 🦠 .

In this video produced in cooperation with the government of Taiwan, learn more about the country's democratic journey, what digital democracy is and why across the world governments should look to the country for guidance and inspiration on this!

Key topics:
📍 Democracy across the world [0.26]
📍Taiwan: basic facts [1.19]
📍 Hsin C Hsiao, Member of the Open Government and Open Parliament Forum [2.25]
📍 Audrey Tang, Digital Minister, Taiwan [2.37]
📍The Uber Case [3.01]
📍 Sam Robbins, Project Coordinator at the Open Culture Foundation [4.13]

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[robinbartmann]

Amazing video - Thanks for putting this together, I am now very curious to learn more about the digital Tools Taiwan uses to create consensus.

[VenzonAndrea]

This is what we need in these dark times! Innovative democracy, positive approaches, and international solidarity. Glad to see Taiwan leading the way!

[colombecahen-salvador]

Taiwan is an incredible leader when it comes to digital democracy. The case of Uber really made the point: in France and across Europe, I believe we could have used this methodology to deal with societal issues.

[jackie]

Thanks for the video for Taiwan! I’m wonder should Taiwan change their country official name to “Taiwan” instead of “Republic of China” (should be delete this name)? Also, I’m wondering a word of “Chinese”, it shouldn’t included “Taiwanese”, “Hong Kongers”, or those people whose living outside China and have another nationality, we should distinction “Chinese people” with others clearly.