Programme role / lens: Reality Checker: connecting Taiwan’s lived experience with African technology
futures.

Yvonne is a Taiwanese writer and researcher working across culture, capital and technology. Her practice
combines political-economic analysis with cultural storytelling to reveal who technological systems serve,
whose memories they carry and whose voices they erase.

Session: Technology, Sovereignty and the View from Taiwan

Yvonne brings a comparative perspective from Taiwan and East Asia, a region central to the global AI

hardware supply chain while confronting its own questions of technological sovereignty, cultural memory and

democratic participation.

QUESTION ENTERING THE ROOM:

What happens when societies develop increasingly powerful technologies while
neglecting the humanities and the people asking why, for whom and at what cost?

What they leave behind:

A record of people beginning to ask better questions and holding themselves
accountable for what follows.

Link: LinkedIn

Writing & Research