TY - CHAP
T1 - Digital Pandemic Governance in Taiwan
AU - Perng, Sung Yueh
AU - Chen, Ying Yu
AU - Fan, Mei Fang
AU - Pan, Mei Lin
AU - Tsai, Hsin-Yi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Ming-Cheng M. Lo, Yu-Yueh Tsai and Michael Shiyung Liu; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - This chapter demonstrates how ideals of digital governance have been incorporated into Taiwan’s pandemic response during COVID-19 and explores what issues have emerged as a result. The analysis focuses on efficiency, real-timeness, transparency and inclusiveness as the four key ideals that are mutually constitutive for establishing digital measures of pandemic response, as well as complicating one another when they are materialised in our everyday life. To analyse how people and public health professionals respond to digital pandemic response measures, the chapter draws on various resources, including, most importantly, a citizen forum we organised in March 2021, as well as an expert panel, an interview with a key public health official, various technical documents and reliable reports, news and commentaries. Its discussion also highlights the importance of grounding digital transition of pandemic response in democratic governance. Taiwan’s experience is in stark contrast with other Asian authoritarian states and attests to the possibility of implementing digital measures without resorting to total control of the virus and society. Reflecting upon these experiences, this chapter provides important insights into the complexity of Taiwan’s transition towards digital pandemic governance and its ramifications more broadly.
AB - This chapter demonstrates how ideals of digital governance have been incorporated into Taiwan’s pandemic response during COVID-19 and explores what issues have emerged as a result. The analysis focuses on efficiency, real-timeness, transparency and inclusiveness as the four key ideals that are mutually constitutive for establishing digital measures of pandemic response, as well as complicating one another when they are materialised in our everyday life. To analyse how people and public health professionals respond to digital pandemic response measures, the chapter draws on various resources, including, most importantly, a citizen forum we organised in March 2021, as well as an expert panel, an interview with a key public health official, various technical documents and reliable reports, news and commentaries. Its discussion also highlights the importance of grounding digital transition of pandemic response in democratic governance. Taiwan’s experience is in stark contrast with other Asian authoritarian states and attests to the possibility of implementing digital measures without resorting to total control of the virus and society. Reflecting upon these experiences, this chapter provides important insights into the complexity of Taiwan’s transition towards digital pandemic governance and its ramifications more broadly.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195744683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003438380-9
DO - 10.4324/9781003438380-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85195744683
SN - 9781032572208
SP - 134
EP - 152
BT - Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -