⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳

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2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/

A portrait of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is positioned in the bottom right-hand corner of a flowing blue, purple and magenta brushed graphic promoting her conversation with Talking Place podcast host Tanisha Raffiuddin during SXSW London 2026.
Humanism After Optimization by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is one of the essays featured in The Humanist Review of AI supported by Microsoft AI. The centre of the light pink essay cover features an abstract, vertically oriented geometric graphic in coral and orange tones, forming a mosaic-like image of a butterfly. https://humanistreview.ai/ https://civic.ai/
A right-positioned, blue-toned image features Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, giving a Vulcan salute synonymous with the phrase Live Long and Prosper in a bright yellow graphic promoting Episode 15 of The Solve Effect podcast hosted by Hala Hanna, executive director of MIT Solve.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, and Ninad Deshpande (right), director general of the India Taipei Association, are all smiles during a meeting. Photographs of President Droupadi Murmu (right) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) of India hang on a yellow wall behind them. The tricolour flag of India featuring horizontal saffron, white and green bands with a centred 24-spoke wheel in navy blue is on the left. Join Cyber Ambassador Tang’s Substack! https://au.civic.ai/
Thank you. Hello from Sweden. Let me start with something I did last Friday. I moved my own Bluesky account to a Swedish provider, hosted in Finland. Every single follower came with me. Nothing broke. *It just works\!* Because on an open protocol, we take our community with us; it doesn't belong to the host. That, to me, is the heart of it. In a democracy, no single company should own the public square. When one company owns the room where we talk, the conversation gets *prematurely optimised* for engagement and capture, not for the public good. And a captive audience cannot hold power to account. The open social web changes the incentive: it gives people a credible exit. If we can leave and take our followers with us, the platform has to *earn* our trust instead of locking us in. Exit is what keeps voice honest. As we heard in the conversation earlier, there is a cost: The hard work of interoperability. But that is the *civic muscle* we must build together. It is a governance challenge worth having, because the prize is a democracy that isn't one big room shouting, but many small rooms that can still hear each other. Let me conclude with one image. Our data is _soil_, never oil. Treat it like oil, and it is all extraction and concentration. Treat it like soil, and our community travels with us, and grows where we plant it. That is how we make the digital public square actually public. And that is how we free the future — together. Thank you.
A large, two-deck SXSW LONDON 3D sign featuring a blue, pink and purple pattern inside a white outline sits on a black base in a grassy park setting. The photograph, taken by Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for SXSW London, is used by Time Out London to promote its list of the 9 best things to see at SXSW London 2026, including Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, listens as Dr Bo-Jiun Jing (right), senior research fellow and programme manager in Taiwan Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, discusses AI-related words of wisdom from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Pope Leo XIV during the Outrage to Overlap: Civic AI and 6-Pack of Care talk at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, in the U.K.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, delivers the Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care Across Generations lecture hosted by the Free, Libre and Open Source Software, or FLOSS, community at the University of Oxford in the U.K.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, makes the Vulcan salute in a predominantly black promotional graphic with white text for SOLVE at MIT 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A greyscale image of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, promotes the Reimagining AI Alignment for Humans Fireside Chat with Caroline Green, director of research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, taking place June 2, 2026, at Protein Studios in Shoreditch as part of SXSW London.
A graphic featuring a blue silhouette holding a large oval lens with a reflective black sphere resembling a pupil, set against a teal and green gradient and a pink rectangular block, promotes the Project Liberty Substack-published essay Reject AI Prophecies, Free the Future by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Audrey Tang (on screen), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, discusses radical trust with Toby Walsh (on stage), laureate fellow and scientia professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, during the Action and Wisdom Forum opening conversation in Melbourne, Australia.
Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, explains why Taiwan's civic muscle is the ultimate foil to authoritarianism during the closing fireside chat on AI, democracy and polarization hosted by Anka Lee (left) on Day 1 of the Special Competitive Studies Project AI+ Expo in Washington, D.C.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, listens deeply during an interview with Alexandre Sirois (right) of Montreal-based online daily La Presse at Tamsui Cultural Park in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan.
An abstract digital art graphic featuring glowing fiber-optic trees with luminous orange trunks and vibrant blue-and-white canopies against a dark blue background promotes The Kyndryl Institute-published essay Safeguarding Sovereignty with Data as Soil written by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Audrey Tang (top, onscreen), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, shares the Civic AI and 6-Pack of Care framework with students during Professor Shikhar Ghosh’s Harvard Business School case study class on her efforts to strengthen democracy in Taiwan using technology.
A graphic for The Protopian Prize Fiction Contest, featuring a background of a bird murmuration against a bruised sky, is shared via the X account of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, takes centre stage with Divya Siddarth (left), social technologist and political economist, during Session 2: Collective Intelligence at TED2026 in Vancouver, Canada.
Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, listens as Karina Palyutina (second left), senior staff AI expert in the Nokia Sustainability Standardisation team, discusses putting Civic AI into practice during a panel chaired by Caroline Green (left), director of research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and joined by Zarinah Agnew (second right), research director with the Collective Intelligence Project, during the first Civic AI Conference organised by the Accelerator Fellowship Programme of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, details the dangers of the Default Trajectory while delivering the Democracy Needs Civic AI address during the first Civic AI Conference organised by the Accelerator Fellowship Programme of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, shares a dialogue on Civic AI with Buddhist monks and deep thinkers Geshe Thabkhe Lodroe (centre) and Geshe Lodoe Sangpo (right) in Dharamsala, India.
An artistic rendering of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, adorns an article appearing in the Hacker section of Mexico City daily Excélsior.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, looks pensively at the handwritten name of the country Taïwan in a graphic for the Sismique Podcast episode: How Taiwan Reinvented Its Democracy.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, delivers a keynote on global leadership marking Tecnológico de Monterrey’s 50 years of presence in Mexico City.
Professor Yuval Noah Harari (left), historian, philosopher and author, discusses the Taiwan Model of building better algorithms for society with Nikhil Kamath (right), host of the People by WTF podcast, at Davos in Switzerland.
An image of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is featured in a graphic promoting AI Safety Asia’s AI Crisis Diplomacy — Governing AI in a Fragmented World panel at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, interviews with Teldah Mawarire (right) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Audrey Tang (fourth left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model of digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, takes centre stage with Lin Chia-lung (fourth right), minister of foreign affairs and Taiwan Foundation for Democracy vice chairman, at the AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei City. The pair are joined by Da-chi Liao (second right), Taiwan Foundation for Democracy president; James K. J. Lee (first right), Taiwan Foundation for Democracy vice president; Yeh-chung Lu (second left), Taiwan Foundation for Democracy vice president; Tsuni Cheng (first left), Taiwan Foundation for Democracy vice president; Lee Huai-jen (third left), Kaohsiung City deputy mayor; and Cheng Chao-hsin (third right), Taichung City deputy mayor.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model of digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, speaks into a handheld microphone before a digital green and blue map-like graphic with a large white star in the top left-hand side. Tang took part in the “From Taiwan to Germany: How Radical Participation Leapfrogs Public Trust” dialogue introduced by Steffi Czerny, co-founder of the DLD Conference, and hosted by Zarah Bruhn, social innovation lead at Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, or SPRIND, at the DLD Conference in Munich.
A graphic with an orange-to-yellow gradient background at the top and a dark charcoal band at the bottom welcomes ROOST’s inaugural board of directors, which includes Audrey Tang — Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model of digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Fireworks burst and cascade along Taipei 101 at night, with thick smoke glowing above the city skyline.
A golden sun with the centred blue text "Section" and red "230" rising over the darkened ocean symbolizes hope for digital public spaces rich in authentic human expression, innovation and Plurality as advanced in the article "Sunset Section 230 and Unleash the First Amendment" by Jaron Lanier, Allison Stanger and Audrey Tang — Taiwan's cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model of digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate.
Audrey Tang (seated, second right), Taiwan's cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model of digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, meets in northern Taiwan's Taipei City with Karen Makishima (seated, right), member of Japan's House of Representatives and former digital minister; Keiichiro Asao (standing, second right), member of Japan's House of Councillors and former minister of environment; Shinji Inoue (standing, centre), member of Japan's House of Representatives and former minister for the World Expo 2025; Taro Kono (seated, third left), member of Japan's House of Representatives and former digital minister; Masahito Fujikawa (standing, second left), member of Japan's House of Councillors and former minister of finance; and Kazunori Tanaka (seated, left), member of Japan's House of representatives and former minister of reconstruction.
Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, meets with Kate Kallot (left), technologist and entrepreneur, in Taipei City, northern Taiwan.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, delivers the Right Livelihood Lecture at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Audrey Tang (second right on stage), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is joined by Right Livelihood laureates at the award presentation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is joined by Greta Thunberg (right) at the Right Livelihood Award Presentation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Audrey Tang (second left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, is joined by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Jane Riechel (right); Eva Erman (second right), Department of Political Science; and Stanley Greenstein (left), Department of Law, during the Right Livelihood Laureate Lecture at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, addresses participants in a special breakfast seminar staged by Civil Rights Defenders in Stockholm, Sweden.
A blue and fluorescent yellow-green poster promoting the Berlin Freedom Conference participation of Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, adorns the wall of a Berlin U-Bahn station. Image courtesy of @berlin_life_543 via Threads.
Audrey Tang (right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, speaks at the Oxford Union as members look on.
The Berlin Freedom Conference, featuring thought leaders like Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador; first digital minister; architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy; and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, is promoted using a purple graphic displaying the Berlin Freedom Conference logo and text in white and fluorescent yellow.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, delivers the keynote at Social Enterprise World Forum, or SEWF25, in Taipei City, northern Taiwan.
Audrey Tang (third left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, is joined by Park Tae-woong (right), Yoo Jae-yeon (second left) and Kim Myung-kyu (left), members of South Korea’s National AI Strategy Committee delegation, during a breakfast meeting on public welfare initiatives.
A promotional graphic for GreenEarth Social features a green caterpillar centred on a white social media post.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate, delivers a briefing during the National Diet of Japan’s AI and Democracy Cross-Party Caucus Meeting.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister and architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy, gives a Vulcan salute synonymous with the phrase “Live Long and Prosper” in a graphic produced by Social Enterprise World Forum celebrating her naming as a 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate.
Audrey Tang (center), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister and architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy, takes part in the Clinton Global Initiaitve Mainstage Session: Putting People First hosted by Chelsea Clinton (left), vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and Deepak Bhargava (right), social justice leader and organiser, in New York City.
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister and architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton (right), advocate, attorney, first lady, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state and presidential candidate, attend the launch of the Women Transforming Global Security network in New York City.
Audrey Tang (third right), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister and architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy, is joined by Sen. Rachid Temal (fourth right) and other members of the visiting French Senate delegation in Taipei City, northern Taiwan.