Dr. Da-Chi Liao currently is the president of Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and emeritus professor of Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun-Yat-sen University (NSYSU). She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1990, and has long been focusing on election & legislative studies, constitutional design, identity problems, information technology, and politics. She has published more than 80 refereed journal articles ever since 1990, and edited six books. In recent 15 years, she has been devoting significant time to study how to utilize ICTs (Information and Communication technologies) as a tool to analyze politics as well as to improve the quality of democracy in Taiwan.