Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of social innovation. She has a unique career history: from school dropout to hacker to the world’s first transgender minister. A highly successful and respected software programmer, Audrey served on Taiwan’s National Development Council’s Open Data committee and K-12 curriculum committee, and she led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. She has also worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography and with Socialtext on social interaction design. She is known around the globe for her contribution to g0v (“gov zero”), a vibrant community that focuses on creating tools for the civil society with the call to “fork the government.”