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2026-08-08 09:08 UTC
After the next election, Tang was named Taiwan's first ever Minister of Digital Affairs (today, she is a Taiwanese "Ambassador-At-Large"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:08
In the USA, Jen Pahlka went from running a ragtag "civic hacking" org called Code For America to helping to found the United States Digital Service under Obama, bringing some of that UK GDS spirit to America's dreadful online presence, which had been largely built and maintained by beltway bandits who'd billed handsomely and delivered some of the internet's greatest crimes against usability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service 12/