Here is a tailored invitation for Audrey Tang, positioned as a keynote catalyst for digital democracy, civic trust, and technology that strengthens public participation.
Dear Audrey,
I hope this finds you well.
I am writing to invite you to participate in MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE, a new global media-and-action experience from Mobilized News designed to bring together the people, ideas, tools, and public-interest solutions needed to redesign systems for life.
The purpose of CONVERGENCE is simple but urgent:
How do we move from systems that extract, divide, confuse, and control — to systems that inform, connect, restore, and empower?
Your work in civic technology, open government, public participation, digital democracy, and trust-building speaks directly to the heart of this initiative. You have helped show the world that technology does not have to deepen polarization, surveillance, and alienation. It can be designed to expand listening, participation, transparency, and collective intelligence.
CONVERGENCE is not being designed as a traditional conference or vendor expo. It is being created as a living media commons and working assembly: part public-interest technology forum, part solutions showcase, part live newsroom, part collaboration network, and part global action lab.
Our operating framework is:
Signals → Stories → Solutions → Events → Collaboration → Action
We would be honored to invite you to participate as a Keynote Catalyst and strategic voice for one of the central themes of the event:
Digital Democracy as a Living Operating System
Some of the questions we hope to explore include:
- How can technology increase trust instead of accelerating division?
- What can the world learn from Taiwan’s civic technology and participation experiments?
- How can digital tools help people deliberate, listen, and co-create rather than simply react?
- How can governments invite citizens into decision-making before decisions are already made?
- How can public participation become practical, accessible, and continuous?
- What does democracy look like when it becomes a daily public service rather than an occasional voting event?
Your perspective would help frame one of the most important questions of our time: Can digital systems be redesigned to strengthen democracy, civic imagination, and public trust?
We are inviting a founding circle of leaders across digital sovereignty, open-source infrastructure, ethical AI, public digital goods, cybersecurity, regenerative economics, independent media, and community resilience.
The goal is not only to host conversations, but to produce practical outcomes, including:
- A Digital Democracy Action Guide
- A Community Participation Toolkit
- A Public Trust and Civic Technology Solutions Map
- Live and recorded interviews for global distribution
- Practical pathways for cities, public agencies, schools, media organizations, and communities to adopt open, participatory, accountable digital systems
Mobilized News was founded on the belief that a well-informed public is the most powerful and valuable natural resource of all. With CONVERGENCE, we are creating a platform where knowledge does not remain isolated, but becomes shared capability.
We would be grateful to explore your participation in one or more of the following ways:
- Opening keynote or featured conversation
- Digital democracy systems lab
- Interview for Mobilized News
- Strategic advisory conversation
- Contributor to the Digital Democracy Action Guide
- Partner introduction to aligned civic technology and participation initiatives
We believe your voice would be essential in helping participants understand that democracy is not simply a political system. It is a practice of listening, learning, co-creation, and public trust — and digital tools can either destroy that practice or help restore it.
Thank you for considering this invitation. We would be honored to speak with you or your team and explore how MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE can amplify and support the work you are already helping lead.
With appreciation and respect,
Steven Jay
Co-Founder and Executive Producer
Mobilized News
MobilizedNews.com
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