Yes.
Mary, not Tom, had a lamb.
OK.
Mary had a little *lamb*.
Mary had a *little* lamb.
Mary had *a* little lamb.
Mary *had* a little lamb.
*Mary* had a little lamb.
Sure. Do I just start?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, technology. All right, here we go.
No, not at all. Maybe you would like to try...Oh, here it is.
The Skype, I see you typing, and then it doesn’t really go through this...
I know. I am checking the spam folder, just in case. Just a second.
It’s taking its time.
It’s still on the wire. I don’t see any files from you, at the moment.
Sure.
If it doesn’t work, there is a conversation, a text balloon button on top of the overlay. If you click it, that’s where you can drop it also. All this is assuming you’re on Mac. I really don’t...Here you go.
You can just drop it on my face.
Sure, or email, whatever.
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I don’t think I have one called vocal modulation.
Yeah, of course. Just a second. I have here speaking training tips. Eliminating verbal mush.
This is the free software. Then this is the participation officers.
The third one is participation.
This is the radical transparency thing.
This is who I am.
That’s the end of my four slides. As a digital minister, I only have four slides talking about my work as digital minister.
OK, but for this one, yes, I’m feeling better.
OK...
If I use the same formula for one, two, three, four, for all the four things that I do as a digital minister, it might a little bit repetitive.
Slightly. Lukewarm.
Now, after I become digital minister, it’s much better. It’s not perfect, but because we one person from each ministry forming a virtual team of rapid response participation officers, we actually invite the people who entered the petition to meet with all the national ministries people face-to-face, and resolve some ...
Before I entered the cabinet, there was this e-petition platform in Taiwan. It’s called a ghost town, and for a very good reason, because people went, finally get 5,000 people countersigning it, but get a very bureaucratic response of very little actual substantial content.
Mm-hmm.
For example, how to balance environmental issues of overfishing, versus the livelihood of local fishers, and things like that, and the lemon cars, and everything you can think of, you think this way of collaboration to everybody’s satisfaction.
We are able to work on some very difficult issues, such as how many holidays to have in Taiwan, between the labor unions and the capitalists.
We basically acculturate them into the Internet culture of rapid responses, and not afraid of facing people. Now, after a petition is signed, the POs -- the participation officers -- actually vote on things that they want to collaborate on, and then invite the petitioners on a face-to-face deliberation.
To solve this issue, when I become the digital minister, I invited at least one senior bureaucrat from every ministry in Taiwan, to form a virtual team called the participation officers. We are on the same Slack channel, we use all the same Internet tools.
The reason is that people often get a very formal, very bureaucratic written response from one of the ministries, while what they’re actually petitioning is very reasonable. It’s just because it touches multiple different ministries, so they don’t get a satisfactory response from the one ministry that was designated to ...
Before I entered the cabinet, we had a e-petition platform, just like "We the People" in the US, but it was not very popular. It was, again, also like "We the People," have been described like a ghost town.
The end result is that...
After meeting the petition threshold, instead of just a written response from a random minister, the petitioners and countersignature people, like six of them, is actually invited to the national government to have a face-to-face deliberation with people from all the relevant ministries.
This slide is about how we enlisted all the different ministries -- all 32 of them -- to send us one career public servant as participation officer. The end result is that, for all the e-petitions, for all people’s petitions above, say, 5,000 countersignatures...It’s like in the US, you have ...
The end result is that, because it runs on what we call the Sandstorm platform, which is now certified by our department of cyber security, people can very easily add their free software contributions to be part of the Taiwan public service, or where anywhere is public service, and not ...
This slide is where I appeal to the free software folks in the audience, saying that the first thing that I did as digital minister is to recompile the Linux kernel, which is operating system, to run all those softwares that people love in the free software world.
It was able to bring several different disagreeing sides, such as Uber and taxis, to a rough consensus, to agreement, because of the style of working.
This radical transparency, designed to promote innovation in the bureaucracy, actually worked. It also kept lobbying to a minimum. It’s not that I don’t meet with lobbyists -- for example, this is David Plouffe, from Uber -- it’s that all the lobbyists is actually adding to something, because they know ...
All right. For example, the Occupy, the idea was that the parliament needs to really treat Beijing as just another diplomatic entity, and pass treaties the same way as we pass treaty to, for example, New Zealand. That demand got met, so the students retreated peacefully.
