The government needs to trust the people before the people trust the government back. To give no trust is to get no trust .
“To give no trust , is to get no trust .” By showing trust in our people, we hope to earn their trust in return.
To give no trust is to get no trust . It’s paramount that we start trusting strangers, trusting random people online. That’s what I do.
To give no trust is to get no trust . It’s important that the state trust the citizens before the citizens are asked to trust the state. That is to say, trustworthiness need to be earned.
In Taiwan, the people trust the government. The government trust the people and the people trust the government because of that. First, the government trust the people, and people started trusting the government. According to your experience, when did you feel people started trusting the government?
那時候是介紹 zero trust 的概念，我看報紙的時候，大家都不確定我在講什麼，因為 zero trust 的第一步是大家都不用進辦公室。
So, “ Trust us. Trust us, and don’t criticize.”
sli.do：「Government needs to trust citizens, but government needs to be trusted by citizens more.Can we trust government?」
“To give no trust is to get no trust .” This means in order for the government to get trust from people, the government need to first trust the citizens.
We move at speed of trust . In the environment where there is less trust , we move slower and earn the trust . In an environment where trust is plenty then we move faster and earn trust even faster, so that’s the whole idea.
This is a trust to people who does not trust us enough yet to reveal their real identities, because trust , you see, is mutual. If the government doesn’t trust its people, there’s no way for the people to trust the government.
I call it trust worthiness. To earn their trust by showing that we are worthy of trust . We do so by essentially trusting the citizens because if the government trust their citizens with open data, then people can see before their own eyes how the system is working without relying on blind trust or third parties.
To give no trust is to get no trust . So the government need to first trust the people before expecting trusting back. The way we trust the people is to make sure that we publish as open data and so on thoroughly non-personal data.
I would say it’s a trust mission. It is a getting government to trust the people without expecting anyone to trust back.
So, we have two problems. One is that the government, the elites, just don’t trust the people enough in order to win back trust . But to give no trust is to get no trust .
Blind trust is worse than no trust , because it’s asking people to trust their government and the politicians without them trusting back. That essentially leads to fascism and we all know how that went.
Definitely. I think, for me, this is not about citizens trusting the government, but about the government trusting the citizens. Only when we trust the citizens can some of the citizens trust back with co-creation.
Yes. I think the government should fully trust the citizens. When we say mutual trust , all too often, people think it’s the people should trust the government, which will lead to people trusting each other.
I think that’s right. The danger in this moment, and what’s so powerful about that articulation—‘to give no trust is to get no trust ’ (it’s actually a quote from the Tao Te Ching from Laozi)—is that it tells us it’s a cycle. It’s reciprocal. If you give no trust , you get less trust . Government trusts people less, people trust government less, government trusts people less.
Yes. Trust us, and don’t criticize. It is a very complicated plan. “You must trust us, and we don’t trust you to understand.”
