We didn’t make international news because then the girl got a scholarship and became a well- trusted and somewhat well-known environmental activist, but without resorting to occupying the parliament, or anything like that. The idea of this design is to make sure that we can turn the energy from activists into social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
This I think is a very powerful tool, it’s entirely publicly funded. It’s a product of our public television, and we allocated a huge number of special budget just to get these done in a highest quality possible, and export to everywhere that suffers from media literacy and trust crisis in journalism, which is everywhere. [laughs]
That was around the turn of century. But then there came Bitcoin and Ethereum and suddenly we don’t have to explain the core concepts anymore because then people do actually see that you can have the centralization while have a different sort of trust that has its own governance problems, of course, but it’s clearly anarchistic.
It means open data from the citizen scientists, from the private sectors, in a true collaborative, data collaborative way. How to generate trust between a supply chain of any manufacturing, of a shipping line, of the so-called the code storage between a manufacturing of a food to its final safety space, organic food, and things like that.
The cross-sectoral trust in this kind of referee, I think, is a core of your method. We talked about the National Investor Board and things like this a lot. The accountability of this multi-stakeholder model must be greater than the government itself, or any stakeholder in particular, otherwise, they will just drive the traditional procurement model.
It goes back to this question of local culture strengths. You cannot build anything in the US, for example, that has trust as its more important value. It will go nowhere, which is not a criticism of the US or a criticism of China or a criticism of anything. It’s just phenomenological. It just won’t fly.
Our government system previously, because it’s democracy, supposedly we need to listen to what people want. People want two very different things. First, we see the government absorbing a lot of the tension, and the trust in government becomes declining, because whatever government do you can’t please half of the people, so it keeps getting thinner.
In Taiwan, in all of the verticals, there’s probably some parts of Taiwan to compare with the best in Southeast Asia. I won’t name names. The idea is that we learn from the parts of Southeast Asia that does better than Taiwan in a certain vertical, and then we build a trust , a bi-directional chain.
Really, different models are fit for different purposes. If you are talking about something which is a social or community enterprise for a specific community to do a specific job in a specific place, then that kind of trust model, there’s no need to distribute, give them profits, because the thing is there to provide the service.
I was one of the more trusted people in the open community for Apple to reach out, and so I worked with their computational language team, and also what we call localization team, taking the same concept that Siri tries to say, and say it in 20 different languages in a way that makes sense to those cultures.
Whereas for the young people who was born with Internet, this is a very natural thing, for many public service people, it takes a lot of workshops and lot of experiments, and a lot of experiences to really start to get the idea, that you can really trust a stranger to share their experience and feelings with you.
What I’m saying is that I’m not that worried about the Internet as an infrastructure. I do worry about people’s trust in the Internet. It could very easily be corroded if people are led or even convinced to believe that the Internet is no longer a safe space for expression, for assembly, and so on.
That is how we met those people, and that’s how g0v, as a whole, gained a whole new dimension, that we want to set a mediation space where everybody could trust us, and for the private sector to sit down with the civil sector about the things that government’s not having the entire agenda-setting power.
…But with the ojibwe, no legitimacy, the history and prior work of the university with that community had so eroded the trust that my principal investigator of the project had to go for 4 hours and just be yelled at in order to build back trust , people needed the catharsis and then over time they were able to get to a place of collaboration, actually. But I just want to sort of give you that as sort of my own background in thinking about how different institutions, different civil society institutions, different government institutions, have different…
…So again, they adopt the same posture as the CMMC requirement of zero trust architecture. So, we’re converging to zero trust architecture as a shared way for the defense-oriented certifications and the civilian certifications and the private sector certifications so that the same techniques, the same tools, the same talent training and so on can interoperate and flow more easily between the different systems.
Public trust is fragile. Once it’s gone, it’s hard to win back. So the question is not only how we communicate better, it’s how we design systems where people feel heard, involved and respected. Systems that can hold disagreement, because disagreement matters. It’s how progress happens. The challenge is scaling participation without sliding into chaos.
If we position AI as a bridge between people, it can be a wonderful facilitator, like a warm, inviting bonfire. But if you place it in the spot where a human should stand, that is the onset of "Mad Cow Disease"—a spark likely to become a forest fire that destroys interpersonal trust , burning beyond all control.
I am now working for the media, so I am wondering how to get people’s trust back regarding basic information, like economic policy or fiscal problems. If we summarize or focus on certain issues for readers, they sometimes criticize the media as biased. However, many misunderstandings of basic information are caused by a lack of summarization by the media.
Privacy at the Edge is an investment. It makes the future cybersecurity designer’s life easier. If you don’t have that much of a privacy oriented data to protect, if it’s in the most extreme scenario in communities such as Ethereum, nobody trust anyone. [laughs] It’s very adversarial, everyone you meet is probably a scammer. [laughs]
That said, there is a couple of things that are broadly applicable. The first thing is trusting your fellow citizens. In liberal democracies, many people in the career public service see 5,000 counter signature, 50,000 countersignatures. Then they immediately think of pressure, that these people are here to make demands, to hold us accountable, and so on.
