AUDREY TANG

Software programmer and executive cabinet member

Audrey Tang has been called “Taiwan’s genius IT minister” for having applied her technology expertise to its disease prevention efforts, and she has been an instrumental figure in Taiwan’s fight against the coronavirus.

Tang united civil and governmental agencies to create a “mask map” app, which helped residents efficiently find the closest location where masks were available in real time. She also developed an alert system to inform citizens where passengers had visited in order to evaluate whether they needed to monitor their health, and to issue timely rebuttals to the spread of any misinformation or rumours.