Open Source Beats Authoritarianism: Audrey Tang, Taiwan's first Digital Minister, on why strong public and civic digital infrastructures are key to advancing democracy

Audrey Tang has served as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister since 2016, by which time she already was known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as for building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin....