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Audrey Tang
2025 Right Livelihood Laureate | Taiwan's First Digital Minister & Cyber Ambassador-at-Large | Pioneer of Digital Democracy & AI Governance
Audrey Tang redefined what democratic governance can look like in the digital age. As Taiwan's first Digital Minister and current Cyber Ambassador-at-large, they built the global blueprint for AI-enabled civic participation. A 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate and TIME AI100 honoree, Tang gives senior audiences a proven, evidence-based vision for how technology can strengthen democracy rather than erode it.
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Audrey Tang biography
Audrey Tang is one of the most consequential figures working at the intersection of technology, democracy, and public governance. As Taiwan’s first Minister of Digital Affairs from 2022 to 2024, and minister without portfolio for digital issues from 2016, they spent nearly a decade building what is now known worldwide as the “Taiwan Model”: a framework for participatory, transparent, and AI-enabled governance that governments across Asia, Europe, and the Americas are actively adapting. Tang currently serves as Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-large, carrying that playbook to international institutions and audiences.
Speaker Audrey Tang is recognized for turning some of the thorniest problems in digital governance into scalable, replicable solutions. They declared broadband a human right, co-created the Mask Map that coordinated Taiwan’s celebrated COVID-19 response, and launched vTaiwan, a participatory deliberation platform since studied in Japan, the United States, and the European Union. During the 2024 presidential elections, Tang helped lead Taiwan’s defense against sophisticated foreign disinformation. As a founding contributor to g0v, the civic-tech collective that pioneered government transparency tools in Taiwan, they have shown that open-source principles and democratic governance reinforce rather than undermine each other.
2025 Right Livelihood Award and Global Recognition
Tang’s work has been honored at the highest levels. In 2023, TIME named them one of its 100 Most Influential People in AI. In December 2025, they received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel,” for pioneering the use of frontier technology to advance digital democracy with ethics and transparency. They co-launched ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) at the 2025 Paris AI Summit, co-authored the book Plurality with economist Glen Weyl, and now develop the “six-pack of care,” an application of pluralist ideas to AI governance, through the Accelerator Fellowship Programme at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI.
A child prodigy who mastered advanced mathematics and programming before adolescence, Tang left junior high at fourteen and was working as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur by nineteen. A classically trained musician and self-described “conservative anarchist,” they bring a rare blend of technical depth, civic philosophy, and optimism to every stage.
As an AI speaker, Audrey Tang offers senior audiences something increasingly rare: a proven, evidence-based vision for how technology can strengthen democracy rather than erode it. Drawing on real deployments rather than theory, they give policymakers, executives, and innovators the frameworks and mindset to build more resilient, participatory institutions. To book Audrey Tang for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Audrey Tang Speaking Videos
Audrey Tang: Taiwan's First Digital Minister on Innovation and Democracy
Audrey Tang: The Power of Collective Intelligence
Audrey Tang Keynote Topics
Institutions everywhere face the same pressure: AI is reshaping public life faster than democratic systems can respond. Drawing on their tenure as Taiwan's Digital Minister and their work as Cyber Ambassador-at-large, Audrey Tang maps the tools, platforms, and principles that let Taiwan build and sustain public trust through open, participatory technology. From real-time pandemic coordination to AI-assisted deliberation and election security, this keynote pairs hard evidence that technology and democracy can reinforce each other with a practical framework for replicating it. Audiences leave understanding what trustworthy digital governance looks like in practice.
The dominant story about AI offers a binary: centralized control or unchecked disruption. Audrey Tang rejects both. In this visionary keynote, they introduce Plurality, a framework for digital systems that are open, interoperable, and built to deepen collaboration across differences instead of amplifying division. Drawing on vTaiwan, g0v, and other civic-tech deployments, they show how bridging algorithms and participatory platforms can turn political conflict into productive co-creation. For leaders grappling with the governance of AI, the session provides both an intellectual foundation and a set of actionable principles for building technology that serves collective intelligence.
Disinformation, cyberattacks, and AI-generated manipulation are not hypothetical threats for Taiwan; they are its daily operating environment as one of the world's most targeted democracies. Audrey Tang draws on concrete experience defending Taiwan's elections, countering state-sponsored disinformation, and building media literacy at scale to hand audiences a practical resilience framework. They examine how open-source tools, radical transparency, and community-based fact-checking create defenses that top-down content moderation cannot match, and what governments, platforms, and organizations can learn from Taiwan's approach. Essential for any audience operating amid information complexity and institutional distrust.
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FAQs on Booking Audrey Tang
Why Audrey Tang?
Booking Audrey Tang is a statement about the kind of conversation you want your event to spark. They are not a commentator on digital democracy; they are its most credible architect. As Taiwan's first Digital Minister and current Cyber Ambassador-at-large, they built and stress-tested real governance systems under real geopolitical pressure: defending elections against foreign interference, coordinating a nationally acclaimed pandemic response, and deploying AI-driven participatory tools now being adapted by governments in Japan, the EU, and the United States. Their 2025 Right Livelihood Award and TIME AI100 recognition place them among the most decorated public technologists alive. On stage, they pair intellectual rigor with rare accessibility, making systems thinking actionable for policymakers, executives, and innovators alike. If your event touches AI, governance, democracy, or the future of institutions, Audrey Tang belongs on your stage. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to explore availability.
What is the Taiwan Model that Audrey Tang pioneered?
The 'Taiwan Model' is Taiwan's approach to digital governance: a set of practices that combine open-source civic technology, participatory deliberation platforms, and AI-assisted policy tools to build trust between government and citizens. Its key elements include vTaiwan, the g0v civic-tech community, real-time pandemic coordination tools, and election-security measures deployed against disinformation. The model is internationally recognized for showing that digital technology can deepen democratic participation rather than undermine it, and governments and civic organizations in Japan, the United States, and the European Union have begun adapting its methods to their own contexts.
What is Audrey Tang's book Plurality about?
Plurality, co-authored with economist Glen Weyl and developed as an open, collaborative project, argues for a new approach to technology grounded in diversity and democratic collaboration rather than the concentration of power. It makes the case that technology built on pluralist principles can bridge social divides, strengthen institutions, and create new forms of collective intelligence. Written openly and released into the public domain, the book and the wider Plurality movement form Tang's intellectual framework for how AI and digital infrastructure should be governed to serve humanity. That thinking now extends into their 'six-pack of care,' an applied approach to AI governance developed at Oxford.
What topics does digital democracy speaker Audrey Tang cover?
Audrey Tang's keynotes cover digital democracy and participatory governance, AI policy and ethics, disinformation and election security, civic technology and open-source governance, the future of collective intelligence, and the global applicability of Taiwan's democratic innovation. Their sessions are especially valuable for audiences in government, financial services, healthcare, media, and any sector grappling with the governance implications of AI, and they adapt each keynote to the specific industry and context. To discuss the best fit for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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