No, I don’t think there is a tension here. I think cybersecurity and privacy are the foundation stones on which participation is made. If you don’t have cybersecurity and trust of the cyber system, that is to say the protection of privacy, it is impossible actually to do genuine participation.
Disinformation, though, that’s another thing altogether. It’s not attacking the fabric of technology. It is attacking the fabric of trust so it’s a different thing, completely different thing. I gave a talk around this topic in the Taiwan US Global Cooperation Training Forum just before I fly to Canada.
All these things are essential for the government to function and all these things are essential for people to trust each other when we share this to every other ministry. Any public servant can use this system for free, and they can also write new applications to run on it for free.
I personally translated several interactive games from Nicky Case. One explicitly talks about how disinformation spreads, one about how social media destroys trust , one about segregation, and one about the framing effect of media and how media messages kind of perpetuate the world views by itself. I personally translate some of these.
By revealing their authentic selves, they become constructive participants in the community not necessarily with me, but with me as a focal point, so that people can see, when you see ad hominem attacks or whatever inflammatory messages, it’s possible to respond in this way that increase public solidarity and trust .
It’s radical trust in addition to radical transparency. It really works really well. That’s how we get these huge projects like Perl 6 to run. The main lesson there was that the designer, in their language, computer language, but language needs to be humble because language is larger than us.
Then the CI, the civil IoT, is progressing without worrying about privacy. Basically, we build the standards, the technical expertise, the trust between the civil society, private sector vendors of those sensors, and the ministries involved to try to convince the minister it really generates better social impact if we work together.
It is by itself a show of mutual trust between the civil society organization and the government in Taiwan at the highest level. My office, we sent two people to the OGP. OGP is generally aware that Taiwan is not only a qualified but an outstanding contributor to the open-government values.
Projects like that are traditionally, we don’t see them in other Asian countries, because they threaten the legitimacy of government. When government, the Environmental Protection Agency publish number, but the citizen also publish number, people who participated are going to trust their own numbers, no matter the position of the measurement.
What I’m trying to get at is that, it’s not just one-time transparency. A repeated, transparent communication between multiple parties builds a accountability trail, where people can ask, how did we end up here? I think that’s our main contribution, making all the parties trust each other more.
First of all, the virality of a message is just like a chain mail. Every time it spreads, the one that was mutated to be more trustworthy seeming [laughs] gets more people sharing it. The one that doesn’t really hit something in people’s mind, they don’t get to spread.
We’re way beyond where people think the vote would be rigged or it would be corrupt. The main sentiment is that the current laws are maybe too stringent, [laughs] that it stifles innovation because of the anti-corruption laws. But people are generally pretty trusting the public service being not corrupt.
It’s not as though you mentioned Estonia and China, because there are ways of generating this trust in our world, and it’s completely different. Estonia does it by publishing a transparent trail to every single individual, how their data is being used so they can audit any time they want.
I think it was very aptly characterized as a so‑called disempowerment of citizens. On the one hand, Reddit and social media in general let everyone know that they’re not alone in caring about something, so they formed solidarity very quickly, by swiftly trusting each other. That’s in common time.
By trusting people I mean the things like the radical transparency that I’m practicing here, every meetings that I convene, every decision that I make, are published down to transcript level. Everybody who participate in the part of the process get to tell me what they think about my daily work.
…Again those people share something with us because they do trust strangers. The key of doing open source is that you trust random people on the internet to help you digitize maps and things like that. This is what Civic media is especially good at and which the traditional social activists are especially bad at. This is very interesting because these three groups of people each like something that the other two other groups of people could provide. Just by organizing things in a way that lets people learn from each other eventually helped converge into…
I look forward in the next 14 days after the transcript is produced to add links and everything, blogs, announcements, so that the reader of this transcript can also collectively benefits from the cutting edge research and the commitment from the industry to a safer and more trustworthy AI and information integrity environment.
We think that the ecosystem of copyright-cleaned sources of input, trustworthy sources of input, sources of input that don’t contain data contamination and things like that are going to be more and more important. Llama or Mistral is a good stepping stone towards getting there. I hope that answers the question.
So, these, like Class A agencies that hold the private information for all 23 million people, is going to switch to the security and communication, the T-Road and the Zero Trust architecture, and so on, by the end of next year also. So, the timelines are the same for all three components.
Which is why we must work closely with all three of them. We now share the same architecture, which we call Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Meaning that, for example, when I sign my official documents on my device, I may be anywhere. I was quarantined at home for seven days and worked nonstop.
