Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang (唐鳳) on Thursday attended meetings with the Lithuanian Seimas’ Committee on Economics and the Lithuanian Parliamentary Group for Relations with Taiwan before attending a forum on democracy and digital freedom, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said in a statement.
Tang was accompanied by Representative to Lithuania Eric Huang (黃鈞耀) in the meetings with the economics committee, led by its chairman, Kazys Starkevicius, and the parliamentary group, which was led by its chairman, Matas Maldeikis.
Tang and Seimas members had productive interactions and discussed the tenacity of Taiwan’s response in the face of diplomatic challenges, with Tang providing examples of Taiwan’s innovative policies, the ministry said.
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Tang later attended the Free Digital Democracy Dialogue organized by the ministry and two Lithuanian institutions: the Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science and the Go Forward Academy.
“Democracy itself was once a radical experiment,” Tang said at the forum, adding that it was once an “applied social technology about how people come up with understanding and decisions together.”
Tang was accompanied by Lithuanian Minister of the Economy and Innovation Ausrine Armonaite, who introduced her to the Baltic State’s digitizing of government services.
Tang signed up for a Lithuanian e-resident card, which grants foreigners access to the country’s local administrative, public and commercial services.
Tang said the ministry governs Taiwan’s regulations on digital services and aims to establish mutually beneficial bilateral partnerships and services.
Tang also attended Lithuania’s Day of the Defenders of Freedom bonfire with Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Zygimantas Pavilionis and Seimas member Emanuelis Zingeris. The event commemorated people who in 1991 lost their lives in clashes with Soviet troops.
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