This can only happen in a society that cannot be bothered about perfect liberty. How will it serve democratic polls or achieve greater outcomes that we see the future of capitalism?

Thank you very much. I’m from India. Thank you for your presence and time. Governments and their corporate partners are broadly using technology to create a surveillance state, like keeping every citizen under observation, monitoring their every action.

Thank you very much.

Compared to that, and based on what I know about you, it seems that you’re doing the opposite of that. You’re trying to use technology IT as a way to empower people, to strengthen democracy. My question would be, how do you see her hypotheses? What do you think about ...

For the people who might not know, very briefly, she’s mentioning that we’re entering a new era of capitalism, which is mostly controlled by a few mega IT companies, which use our behavioral data as a raw material to influence our behavior, to influence what we like, and when do ...

Thank you very much for giving this opportunity to interact with you. It’s a great honor for all of us. My question might be a little bit broad. There’s this concept of surveillance capitalism, coined by Professor Zuboff from Harvard University.

Yes. Thank you.

My question could be a little bit vague, but what would you say to people who are reluctant to relying on technology, when it comes to sustainability issues?

I believe personally, that we should use all the solutions available, including technologies which could help us to gather data or whatever. At the same time, I also think that we should achieve some sobriety in consumption. I’m thinking of 5G, which is very much energy consuming.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Audrey, for joining us today. I have, I would say maybe an open question. I think that there are people who think that technology will be the one thing which will save us from climate change, I think of Bill Gates, for example.

Thank you very much.

Hi Audrey. I actually watched your TED talk, and you mentioned that every Wednesday you will meet communities and and probably individuals. My question is, is there a way for you to identify which ideas are the good or the best one that you might come up with? How do ...

Definitely. Thank you very much.

The second one is related to that one, is given those common values that we have, how can we innovate without leaving anyone behind? It’s a subject that I’m interested. I’m wondering if you made any progress or any projects that are aiming to fulfill those two questions.

Thank you, Audrey, for spending time today with us. I listened to an interview from you in 2020, and you mentioned two questions that you were looking for. One was that, if people have very different positions and backgrounds, how may we arrive to common values?

Thanks very much. It’s wonderful. Thanks.

Yes, thank you very much. It’s a remarkable story. If I may be permitted just one more on, China has tried very much to bar Taiwan’s participation from any international health forum including the WHO. In this environment, how easy has it been for you to share information and best ...

Also, if you could tell us a little bit about how you became a politician in the first place? It seems an unusual career trajectory for you?

In a situation where COVID policy has become so politicized in so many countries. How have you managed to keep politics separate? Maybe you haven’t succeeded. I’m imagining it. How have you tried to keep politics separated from COVID policy in trying to do what you said you’d like doing ...

Thank you so much, Audrey, for your talk so far. Very interesting. I have so many questions I want to ask you, but I’ll limit to two. You mentioned the word politics. I presume that if you’re a minister, you’re a member of the cabinet and you’re a politician.

What would you recommend to another software engineer? What would you recommend they do if they wanted to take that path as well? Thank you.

Hello, thank you for being with us today. I’m also a fellow programmer. I wanted to ask you about parties, specifically, this part of you being also a software engineer and a programmer, and then moving on to the government policy parts. How did you choose to take this path?

Yes, as you explained as a mechanism of framework. Through that framework, we are able to have a discussion purely for the benefit of society. That is ideal. That is very good, but the toxic network environment we are in, the society is already polarized sometimes, in some cases.Once society ...

We need to break away from the negative cycle. We should be accountable for participating in the governance. In order to do so, what kind of mindsets should we have? How should we change our mindset? Do you have any advice?

Because we are so busy with our daily lives, we think that it’s cumbersome to think about politics. We don’t spend so much time thinking about politics. Then on the Internet, it’s anonymous, so we pretend to be release our stress and we may make very bad comments. That has ...

Thank you so much. There’s one question I would like to ask from Tang. We talked about the governments’ role, the cooperation’s role, but at the foundation is each individual by cost. In the digital society, what kind of mindsets should each individual have when we talk about the politics?

If you can cite some examples to illustrate the relationship between the two, I would appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Therefore, I think there’s a certain hurdle, an obstacle to create truly equal fitting relationship between the government and companies. That is I feel. Now, based on that, the government and businesses in order for them to have a fitting horizontal dialogue, what would be the key for that to ...

If companies want to participate in governance, and also building of trusts through, that dialogue is very important. On the other hand, since I am working at the financial institution, I feel that there is a certain hurdle or obstacle to horizontal dialogue between the government and business because the ...

As a person who is seeking innovation at company, I have been receiving a lot of stimulus from you. From my part, as we have discussed with several examples already in agile collaborative governance, horizontal dialogue with government is very important.

Thank you very much. I am working at the life insurance company. I am in charge of business development. I am Tsudzumi. Thank you very much for this valuable opportunity, Audrey.

What kind of methodology is possible to incentivize these corporations to participate in such socially meaningful project and make the project sustainable as a business? I think that the private corporations need more practice in doing this, but how do you think would make it more smoothly to make this ...

However, because it is very costly for corporations to take security counter measures. Audrey san, you talked about the secure environment for using the QR code but for corporations, it’s very costly to take security counter measures and because of that, online dispute resolution services have not spread so much ...

I work in public affairs department at an auditing firm. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Corporations are generally passive to social implementation or role making unless they have economic incentives. For example, in Japan, some people hope for a wider use of private online dispute resolution services.

How can companies play a leading role in this rulemaking process? What do you think companies should do specifically, in order to speed up that rulemaking process? Thank you very much. Those are the questions.

I am a lawyer. Thank you for this opportunity. The one possible solution is to involve companies seeking to provide innovative technologies and services which know about those technologies more than anybody else, to be involved in the rulemaking process in collaboration with other stakeholders, including the government.

Innovative technologies and services, including transactions of cryptocurrency or drones always involve unknown risks and dangers. Because of that, they tend to be regulated more by doing so towards those regulations. What is your take on that? What is your view about those regulations?

The project I worked on involved AI for inference of emotion. This technology has the potential to lead to profiling of the people. Because of that regulation governing, this area was a hurdle for usage of this technology.

I provide support to corporations as a lawyer. Thank you so much for your time today. I would like to ask about the regulation. How the regulation should be vis à vis innovation.

In Taiwan, the people trust the government. The government trust the people and the people trust the government because of that. First, the government trust the people, and people started trusting the government. According to your experience, when did you feel people started trusting the government?

You cited examples of air books in elementary schools are factor checking during the elections by junior high school students. [inaudible 22:09] is effective according to you. What can we do as adults to acquire such skills? What roles can business play in order to make this democracy function more ...

Thank you very much. I placed him on a lot of vitamins. I think that’s good for your immunity in your body system. [inaudible 21:48] is our next questionnaire. I’m a certified public accountant. Thank you very much, Minister Tang. You argue that in order to live in a digital ...

People in Taiwan think that they can trust the government and I wonder how people have nurtured such a trust based relationship. However, based on the specific examples that you cited, they are able to learn that government can be trusted based on such specific cases. May I understand in ...

Though, that in the high assistance, the question, he said the diplomacy, defense, and public security, maybe they are not very good for transparency purposes. They should be sometimes excluded for those limitations.

Thank you very much. Yes, in the responses you’ve given just now, that people and contact tracing system within that framework. People trust the system with their own information and information will not be conveyed any further beyond a necessary boundary. It is not used for police or other purposes ...

In some cases, there may be occasions where government will conduct surveillance of people in order to protect them. How does Taiwan handle the issue of this limitation to transparency? How do you obtain the consent of people with regards to this limitation and secure trust of the people towards ...

I’m a certified public accountant. I would like to ask about radical transparency that is at the foundation of Taiwan’s initiatives. Government functions include diplomacy, defense and policy that cannot be made public.

What do you do to make it join a real function, the system in Taiwan? If you can give us any advice for Japan I’ll be grateful. Thank you very much.

In Japan the voter turnout is declining, and the young people are disengaged from politics. I wonder where the system like Taiwan’s drawing would work well in Japan, or introduction of such a system here in Taiwan would help raise public awareness for the need for participation in democracy.

If you want to have people really reflected more directly in politics, utilizing digital technology, we support that active participation of each citizen is a prerequisite. I wonder if you agree on that point.