Now, the “Public Money? Public Code!” initiative, which was started, I believe, by the Free Software Foundation Europe since 2017, advocates that system progress established by the government paid by tax-payer money should be fully displayed with clear guidelines and specifications. So, the ‘Code’ here refers to not just the source code but also the code of internet regulations, the code of ethics, the code of safety and unbiased use of emerging technologies and so on. So, the idea is that with the spirit of the internet multi-stakeholder’s openness and the efforts of the open-source civic tech community over the past decade, Taiwan spearheaded this concept of public code as public infrastructure.

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