I grew up in Germany in the 1960s and 70s. The rubble was still recent enough that my parents and grandparents remembered it. And yet what I experienced as a child was something that was almost miraculous: things getting better. Visibly, measurably, undeniably better. A childhood among kids freely roaming around in the green. Rights […]
— Why Citizens Can No Longer Wait — Four years ago I interviewed Audrey Tang — Taiwan’s first Digital Minister and one of the most original thinkers on democracy alive today. We talked about radical transparency, citizen participation, and what it actually takes to build trust between people and their institutions. This conversation stayed with […]