Audrey Tang
Taiwan's former Minister of Digital Affairs
Taiwan's first Minister of Digital Affairs, a free-software programmer and civic technology leader named to TIME's AI list.
Biography
Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. Born in Taipei in 1981, she was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio in August 2016, and became the first transgender and first non-binary official in the top executive cabinet. She is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities and a core member of g0v, the civic technology community, and sits on the advisory board of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
TIME named her to its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI, in the Shapers category, as Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan.
Notable contributions
Served as Taiwan's first Minister of Digital Affairs
Held the post from August 2022 to May 2024, after serving as minister without portfolio for digital affairs from 2016.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2023, in the Shapers category.
Led Haskell and Perl communities and g0v
Is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities and a core member of the g0v civic technology community.