So, I think all of this is quite aligned with the DSNP vision of this immutable common knowledge blockchain-ish thing as the anchor of trust based on this tamper-proof societal resilience network. So, I think we’re going to naturally align with each other and produce compatible components anyway on the technological track.
I want to thank the Minister for recognizing Google as a pioneer for zero trust architecture. Regarding your three major focuses this year, we are very honored that we worked with MoDA. From the Cloud team, I want to thank you for being our customers and users of Google Meet, and also our Google Workspace.
We jointly pledged to promote the openness and interoperability of the Internet in a pluralistic – that’s to say inclusive – way and to use this multi-stakeholder governance approach, not the top-down, coercive approach, to shape the Internet into a resilient structure while strengthening mutual trust and the protection of freedom and human rights.
It means that our private sector, when coordinating with the public sector, has the same incentives for practicing their participation in public construction projects, even though it’s not of concrete. We want to make this message known to the Taiwanese community that Lithuania is a trusted partner when it comes to reconstruction in Ukraine.
In air box and water box, is people who care about the design can improve the design. They can configure the design in a network topologies previously unimagined. They can choose to use distributed ledgers to keep multiple records in multiple parties that don’t fully trust each other, so nobody can tamper the records.
The challenge is, first, if you can’t order submarine cables and we don’t have satellites, then all this playbook doesn’t work. You need to have the underpinning, the sufficient amount of bandwidth, availability, inclusive access, and also, of course, the cybersecurity defense that makes sure that communication above that layer stays trustworthy .
We do for some highly regulated industry like health, and finance, and so on. Generally speaking, we’re a free flow of trust country in our legal system. On the other hand, when the submarine cables are cut, it’s not about encryption or privacy. It’s about the computation cannot reach the data centers.
This diversity is not always rosy. In 2014, the public trust to the administration was below 10 percent and just a few years prior in 2008 and so on, there was like two presidential elections that led to half of this society saying that the person who got elected didn’t actually get elected. [laughs]
I understand that you’re trying to build a community of trust . How, in a democracy, do you prevent that from being divided by political partisanship? Is it never going to be tempting to one political opposition or another to say, “This whole system is against us, and we’re opposed to the whole system”?
Do you think Taiwan just has the right confluence of factors from a civic minded society, highly educated population? Maybe, a tradition of civic trust to make that work? Or is that something that other democracies can learn lessons from and adapt to their own societies, even if they’re very different countries, than Taiwan?
In our case, we work with the mask distribution partners, including local pharmacy and local convenience store kiosks, and so on. We expect the elderly people to either take their health card or give the health card to someone they trust , and they can complete the reservation in a nearby pharmacy or a convenience store.
This conversation is much more knowledge-based communication that is like a formal meeting. Of course, it’s good for you to introduce one another as friends in this particular setting. Of course, to discover opportunities without any mutual trusted friends become a little bit difficult over a screen-only experience. That is certainly true.
The CECC never said that “We know the best. The pharmacists should follow our order.” We didn’t say that. We say, “We’re sorry.” We understood some pharmacists has taken to write very large letters in the front of their store saying, “Don’t trust the app.” That’s our fault. We’re sorry.
My main role is just to make communication easier, to facilitate communication, making sure that our premier – that’s like prime minister – can see how the mask map works immediately, and I would explain to the cabinet members that if people already trust the citizen technologies, then we don’t have to invent anything new.
This kind of algorithmic takeover, which I think is far, far more likely than the science fiction scenarios of a robot rebellion, can actually happen far more easily in an authoritarian regime than in a democratic regime. The only ingredient missing is for the people higher up to develop enough trust in the algorithm.
I really don’t think there is anything wrong. If we abuse the API access and, for example, when they do a countersignature, we post on their Facebook wall, of course, that will be a violation of trust . I’m not sure just copying these three readable information here once is such a big deal.
The main difference comparing Taiwan to Hong Kong and Singapore was that the government worked in a way that amplified the best ideas from the society. That is to say, the social innovators drive the counter-pandemic protocol, whereas in Hong Kong there’s perhaps not as much trust to its people from the government.
It’s a popular idea. I’m pasting the list of API users that downloads the National Health Insurance centralized database using this My Data export feature into their trusted vaults. You can see that there may be three clinics joining, but most of the Android users are joining the apps developed by the insurance.
This includes whistleblowing, but it’s also just sharing everyday experiences that are not otherwise accessible. I think that’s the one enabling condition, is freedom of speech and assembly. The other one I think is equally important is that people need to have a certain faith in the government’s trust in the citizens.
They mostly want to create a chaotic environment where people have decimated trust any journalistic work and would not do the journalistic work themselves, for example, fact-checking, and so on. By making people distrustful of journalistic work, not just journalists or media, but I’m aware that they can also do some journalistic work.
