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title: Radical Transparency
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A governance practice in which government processes, meetings, and decisions are made fully and immediately public by default — not through selective disclosure or after-the-fact summaries.

The most cited example is Taiwan under former digital minister Audrey Tang: cabinet meetings live-streamed, verbatim transcripts published, and vTaiwan consultation data made openly available. Covered in the [Taiwan digital democracy post](../blog/posts/2026-05-25-taiwan-digital-democracy.md).

The same principle has been argued for *journalism* rather than government: in a [2021 DOD podcast](../blog/posts/2021-08-08-podcast.md), Write In Stone founder Austin makes the case for "strength through vulnerability" — publishing the full research trail behind a story so readers can audit how a conclusion was reached, not just consume the conclusion.

## Further reading

- [Audrey Tang on radical transparency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang)
- [vTaiwan process documentation](https://info.vtaiwan.tw/)


## See also

- [vTaiwan](../organisations/vtaiwan.md)
- [g0v](../organisations/g0v.md)
- [Consensus Mapping](consensus-mapping.md)
