Zoe Lee

READr

Short vita

Zoe Lee is a feature producer and data journalist at READr, Taipei. She used to work as a weekly magazine journalist with no specific news focus, exploring a variety of topics.

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Innovation for Democracy

27.01.2026 Zoe Lee

How Does Taiwan's Civil Society Leverage Technology and Citizen Activism to Enhance the Transparency of Parliament?

In 2025, NGOs in Taiwan criticized the budget review process and took action. They developed a crowdsourcing social media bot and a data visualization website to monitor how legislators decided to cut or freeze budgets. Data journalist Zoe Lee from READr, who led the project, explains how Taiwan’s civic tech community advanced parliamentary transparency.

Zoe Lee

Short vita

Contributions

How Does Taiwan's Civil Society Leverage Technology and Citizen Activism to Enhance the Transparency of Parliament?