AI, Democracy and Plurality in a Time of Polarisation - Meet the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate Audrey Tang
🗓️Date: Monday 1 December 2025
⏰Time: 11.00–12.30 (doors open 10.40)
📍Location: Aula Magna, Stockholm University, and online (please see below)
Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University is
honored to welcome the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate Audrey Tang — pioneer of participatory digital governance and former Digital Minister of Taiwan — for a public talk on how AI can strengthen democracy rather than undermine it.
Following her talk, Audrey Tang participates in a panel discussion that brings together researchers from Stockholm University in respons to Tang’s talk and situate them within broader academic and societal debates from
the perspectives of their research.The panel includes Eva Erman, Department of Political Science, and
Stanley Greenstein, Department of Law, giving political and legal perspectives on AI, democracy and governance.
The event is free of charge and open for everyone.
A weblink will be sent to registered participants before the event.
📝Register before 30 November.
About Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang is a civic hacker and technologist who rewires systems for the public good. As Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and first digital minister, she showed how technology could deepen trust, giving millions a direct role
in shaping policy. Having proven these systems in Taiwan, Tang now shares this playbook worldwide, using openness and co-creation to fight polarisation and renew democracy.
She receives the 2025 Right Livelihood Award “For advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides.”
See a film on 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate Audrey Tang
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
Eva Hansson
Vice Director, Stockholm Center for Global Asia
