provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU.Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been among the world’s best. With a population almost the size of Australia’s, the island nation has only 496 confirmed cases of the disease and no locally acquired infections for months.The unlikely heroes of Taiwan’s success are “civic tech hacktivists”: coders and activists who the country’s digital minister describes as the “nobodies” who “hack democracy”.What began with the hackers of the “open source, open government” movement and student protesters has grown into an...…provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU.Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been among the world’s best. With a population almost the size of Australia’s, the island nation has only 496 confirmed cases of the disease and no locally acquired infections for months.The unlikely heroes of Taiwan’s success are “civic tech hacktivists”: coders and activists who the country’s digital minister describes as the “nobodies” who “hack democracy”.What began with the hackers of the “open source, open government” movement and student protesters has grown into an...WW…