Taiwan's Response to Covid-19 with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
Channel: Memory and Resistance Laboratory
Date: 2020-07-05

This is the Memory and Resistance Laboratory Podcast. In this podcast series, Memory and Resistance in the Time of Covid, students from UCR interview people across the fields of education, art, medicine, and labor organizing to ask about the larger political, social, historical, and economic impacts of our current circumstances for vulnerable communities.

In this episode we are joined by Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese Free Software Programmer and Taiwan’s first transgender Digital Minister.  She has been lauded internationally for her work in creating digital tools to help contain the Coronavirus in Taiwan during its initial outbreak. Audrey Tang is interviewed by Jimmy Chen, a fourth-year student in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.