I’m willing to trust them in a staging environment.
With like 9… like less than 10% trust in government?
I think also the keyword is again, trust and cooperation.
I think trust was a keyword in your specific activity.
I don’t. I help the government trust the citizens.
I really don’t think people should trust the government.
What’s your stance on eventually trusting a hardware manufacturer?
On the other hand, we’ve also seen the data with a very different metaphor. For example, we have the data as trust , as the currency of trust . People are increasingly saying that as infrastructure of people trusting their psychiatrists, their doctors, their accountants, and things like that, we provide more of our data to those people we trust , because we know they’re acting on our best interest.
Once the citizens get used to the idea and the practice of the government actually trusting their input, maybe some of the citizens will trust back, but this takes time.
In a liberal democratic society, we rely on the people who doesn’t trust us in order to hold us accountable to make sure that we are not corrupt. To trust a citizen, that’s the most important. Whether the citizens trust back or not, both sides have their merits.
It’s easier to think about trustworthiness than trust , because trustworthiness is something that could accumulate over the course of a relationship by being accountable, by being aligned in the same values, by just admitting mistakes very quickly, like we do to the pharmacies that use take-a-number systems.
So here in Taiwan, we know pressure makes diamonds. And we see the pressure of information manipulation not as an excuse for the government to distrust people or censor people. But we rather think we should trust the people maximally. To give no trust is to get no trust . So all the governments around the world should trust people, especially young people more, when it comes to setting the national agenda.
The second worry of a strong leadership, I think we can distinguish between 威信, which is authoritative confidence, and 誠信, a authentic confidence. It’s both trust or confidence level, but one is asymmetrical. The ruler doesn’t actually trust its subject. It’s just the subjects trusting the ruler conditionlessly.
In a lot of the talks and tours you’ve given, you’ve talked about the importance of trust for building democracy. How do you help citizens trust our government?
How to measure trust through the measurement of the inner flow metric of the four pillars, but ultimately on trust and confidence itself. That’s one possible direction we’re taking.
Even if we trust the people fully, there’s always people who don’t trust the government yet to show up in‑person in public hearings. They would rather remain pseudonymous.
What about anonymity? How do you protect identities while ensuring trust ?
Did this trust started thanks to digital technology at the beginning?
And vice versa, the citizens trust in the government as well.
They’re cheerful children and trusting children, maybe, so joyful and…
