It’s then also approved by the minister himself and his team?

Do you have a good example from the past?

The people from the ministry, they don’t themselves do the monitoring? The people are doing the monitoring, and then they will respond?

Is it the trending ones or just the trending ones concerning that ministry?

How does this work? Is this one of the means how you protect against fake news? In every ministry is only having a look at the fake…

Say this again?

We have those people from Han’s party who are accusing the opposite of fake news and also vice versa. I get the impression that it’s quite heated.

What does this mean for the upcoming election? Everybody is extensively using social media, people from Han’s party, but also Tsai’s. Everybody’s using social media. Does this also mean that the whole presidential elections are going to be quite harsher and also angry?

Is the fake news problem bigger in Taiwan because people are using more picture and more video?

You mean Hanyu Pinyin is in Mandarin, not Cantonese?

Is this also something which went viral in Taiwan?

So the problem with the video?

I forgot about deepfakes.

On social media, does this have a impact then, for example, on all those topics like fake news? Do you have less fake news because everybody’s more streaming versus the other thing? Less possible because it is live streamed?

What does this mean if you have more streaming and not only text?

How does social media work in Taiwan? Does it work a little bit differently from other countries or is it same-same?

What about the upcoming elections? What role does social media play in the upcoming elections?

As a digital minister, what worries you the most?

A lot of meaning in those few lines.

Ah yeah.

…the meaning of it?

This sounds like those Japanese haikus.

How does it go, the new poem? Also job description?

Would you today write the same job description as three years ago, or would you change something?

It’s like a poem. [laughs]

You did? [laughs]

I think better to your screen.

Talk to me.

Taiwan has a digital minister, you. What’s your job exactly? What do you do as a digital minister of Taiwan?

This one I think is mine.

How many people are dropping by in one day?

Right. Audrey Tang, thank you.

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Taiwan is also aiming to transform its economy from a manufacturing hub towards a more digitalized economy, it’s been difficult to do that. What are the stumbling blocks, what are the roadblocks you’re encountering there?

Big tech companies have played a questionable role sometimes when it comes to democracy, being a platform where fake news can be spread, or where voters could be influenced. What sort of role do they need to play when it comes to reinventing democracy?

But is there more to it when it comes to digital reinvention of democracy than just providing a bunch of papers for that matter?

Now you’ve started writing computer code when you were a kid; you’ve been active as a hacker, as a computer hacker; now you’re the Digital Minister of Taiwan, and you’re calling for the reinvention of democracy. How’s it supposed to look like and how do you perceive your own role ...

The protests there have grown more violent in the last period of time and there’s the chance that at some point Beijing says “we’ve had enough, we’re going to intervene with force.” How do you view this?

For five months now, people in Hong Kong have been protesting for democracy and against what they perceive as a growing influence by the mainland government from China. As an official from Taiwan – an island which Beijing considers a “breakaway territory” – how do you view these protests?

All right, thank you so much.

OK. Do you think that formal education would get less important in the future?

You mentioned educational institutions like Chulalongkorn can enable people in the future to fully participate in social innovation?

The question is, what Thailand can learn from your technology, and what collaborations do you expect to have in the future?

Thank you so much.

The last question. What is the advise would you give to young generation?

Do you have any country where you are learning from, in your mind, about the GovTech?

Talking about AI, how AI can help reaching the sustainable development goals?

What will technology turn from government to be more transparency?

What is the future of democracy on your mind?

OK. The first question. From tech people, what led you to support government? What inspired you about this view?

The first question. From the...