Thank you.

They said that you are very well-known in Taiwan. Do you feel well-known?

Actually I was visiting Taiwan Embassy, or I don’t know if it’s embassy or what’s the word in English. I said, “I have an interview with Audrey Tang,” and they were star struck about that.

Thank you so much.

What does it mean?

You’ve also said that you work during your sleep.

Your personal IQ is 180. Do you ever feel bored amongst people?

Could you talk about your decision to embark into politics? Why that route?

As a 100 percent hacker who don’t work with the government, do you think you would probably have more chances to change things?

You still are? [laughs]

You used to be a hacker or still?

You’ve also operated in politics or in government and held a position for five years. Would you say your own trust in governance has increased in this time?

OK. Have I understood it right? You have, at some point, described yourself as an anarchist.

What are the common pitfalls governments have when it comes to building societies with technology?

Is this opening to databases something that you would like to see around the world more often?

Your government – It’s not your government. It’s Taiwanese government – has opened up many data sources for the citizens to use. What have you learned from this act? What types of databases have you opened up?

I do believe that radical transparency at the root is beneficial, not just for the public administration saving time. It’s also essential for the journalism sector to work in a way that is at a speed of the Internet, but also with depth and angles, perspectives that’s offered by journalists, ...

Then each and every journalist, especially investigative ones, make it a different subset of facts. That confuses people, because then it will make conversations around which person got, which piece of puzzles dominate the part of conversation, rather than the societal interpretation of how to interpret or how to apply ...

If I publish a number, as soon as I get the numbers, then most of the time, the journalists in Taiwan are not competing, racing to get a scoop, so to speak, but rather can spend our time better in finding the angle, the interpretation to take that is based ...

First of all, radical transparency saves me the time to have to manually respond to each question.

Why do you think radical transparency is much needed in today’s politics?

Have I understood correct that you sometimes live-streamed your data live also?

Next question. You have said that you believe in radical transparency. How would you describe radical transparency? What my real question is, is complete radical transparency impossible?

Do you think small nations like Finland – we have five million people – utilize their possibilities enough to operate environment where you can test different kind of things in society? We can test things quicker. We can use technology and in a way that the United States could not ...

What you did with the COVID-19 technology way was something what Finland might have or could have done.

How big of an issue is COVID denialism in Taiwan? In Finland, about 20 percent of the people, they don’t want to get vaccinated, for example. There’s a lot of people who don’t believe in this COVID-19. Do you think what you did tackled that denial?

My next question is the things you’ve done during the COVID-19 and how you have collaborated with the people. Do you think it has built trust between the Taiwanese and the government?

Yeah.

No.

My first question is the Taiwanese government has collaborated with the Taiwanese people a lot on battling COVID-19. Can you talk about that in more detail? What kind of things have you done?

OK. Thank you so much for doing this. I saw a documentary about you, or about Taiwan. You were instituting that about…It was about three months ago. I was like, “Oh shit, I have to do this interview” because what you said in the documentary was very interesting. How you ...

OK. How big is Taipei? I have no idea how many people are living there.