Cybersecurity is so important for people to have that trust in the system to know that it’s OK for Christopher to file his most personal information in a system and feel that no one’s going to take his Social Security Number or his identity, basically.
It’s less about my personal development or my ideas. It’s more about what’s considered norm in Taiwan, which is not easily categorized as Confucian or as liberal democracy, but something else like earned trustworthiness . That’s the main angle. That’s pretty good, actually.
I think that’s because there’s various different angles, perspectives such as “The Dark Forest” which directly came from the cultural revolution where people simply cannot trust even their own families and in other places with no such memory. It’s impossible to provide that angle.
My question to you is how can our governments, our Western governments, regain the trust of their people in this era of conspiracy? It sounds like saying, “Technology is the answer here.” What should we be doing to regain? What should governments be doing to regain?
I suppose some general questions I have for you today are about the relationship between technology and social trust , which obviously is a big part of what you guys have been working on, especially because I think that this isn’t obviously true across the board.
Then they can bargain with the minister of the environment. The minister of the environment only had 87 station, but the citizen have 2,000 station. People trust the citizen more than the minister. The minister cannot beat the citizen, so the minister must join the citizen.
I have a question. Measuring the effectiveness of your ideas, your policies, how do you go about measuring, determining, how effective your efforts have been? Any benchmarks you’ve set for yourself? If you’re talking about, you want to create social trust , you want to create…
Previously we’ve been talking about the problem of China paying Taiwanese journalist who publish some pro-Chinese opinions. I was wondering if there was some kind of technical solution, maybe utilizing blockchain or like some type of web of trust or something to fight fake news?
The main question is how to build this kind of faith, because a blind trust in technology is actually worse than rejecting technology. We don’t want a blind faith, but a cautious optimism around emerging technology’s potentials in the senior leadership, in the Taiwan cabinet.
I would say that social media made a different kind of crowd, a different kind of…Sorry. The social media made a different kind of crowd that very quickly come to trust each other and to produce culture, produce content in a, literally, day-by-day fashion.
While very long and well trusted , like the ACLU, and Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, the usual suspects, they’re around for a very long time, but on the other hand, they’re continuously opening up new lines of possible research to just keep themselves relevant.
I emphasize the safety of the engagement. Then the safety means actually less risk for everybody involved. That’s one. The second is that the credit is shared. Across the screen, in Mandarin, we say 見面三分情 — there’s a 30 percent of trust just by meeting alone.
Yeah, that’s one. The second is that if the government published a different number, then people are going to trust the one that they build themselves, the old NGOs and with the younger people, the civic tech people, they combined have more legitimacy than the government.
By more co-construction of public policies, and more transparencies of public institutions. This call for digital technologies should allow a continuous democracy, and therefore a more permanent public deliberation to promote the abilities of technologies to reform public services, and enhancing citizens’ trust in the government.
Subscription based crowdfunding depends on a almost personal trust between the people and the creator or the person who gets supported by the crowd. First, it’s not for everyone. Also, it encouraged I use it in a neutral way a more populist framing of the message.
The methodology in the global goals is just to enhance availability of reliable data, of getting people on the same page, literally using distributed ledgers or whatever as needed to make sure that people trust the evidences that their action is having, impacting, on the respective domains.
But with that, we have another statistics that says, the more free the civil society is, the less trust they have on institutions. It’s the paradox of our times, because the social media, the Internet, with disinformation, it encourage outrage, but it doesn’t encourage consensus.
It is not just limited to one country or one region. Anywhere that people who feels that this kind of democratic process is to their detriment will have the motivation to undermine peoples’ trust on the public Internet. It is not limited to any region at all.
One lesson I learned from Generation Alpha is the difference between “vertical” and “horizontal” trust . In our generation, there are vertical institutions like journalism, universities, and ministries that exist primarily in an offline world. We log into the online world, and we log off into the real world.
My experience in Taiwan has shown that freedom and security are not a trade-off; they are mutually reinforcing. The key is adopting open-source principles and radical transparency. We need that in AI governance to cultivate a trustworthy environment where diverse perspectives collaborating—or Plurality—can flourish.
