Previously I worked at the EFF.

I’m currently employed. I have a job but still refer to do new things.

Still seems very…

I don’t know.

I still don’t understand healthcare. That’s why I’m here.

I have a three year.

I’m actually going to go back soon to get a vaccine. Then maybe I’ll return. I have a lot of time left on the visa.

I definitely…

…in technology, but it seemed more complicated.

I was worried that it would be. I’m sure that I could.

I have an economic one because of the time it felt…

One of the main draws obviously is Taiwan’s handling of coronavirus, which makes it a much more pleasant place to be than the US currently. The ability to be able to do so through the Gold Card Visa.

Why am I here? I, like my friends as well, have a Gold Card Visa. I have a good friend who’s been living here for quite some time, so I visited him before and he convinced me to come here.

I’m curious if you have any questions for me?

That’s cool, to see benefits become across country. I don’t know how much time you have.

Do you think that some of the civic tech goods made for Taiwan can be applicable outside of it?

Reminds me a little bit of some of the projects from Code for America.

That sounds very exciting.

What do you think that they would implement?

What else are you focusing on or working on?

Some way to incentivize people or inform people that they can do this other way. First they…

I don’t know how it would work. I know of other academics who say, all of my work is going to be published under Creative Commons license, and then later, if people want to include it in journals, they can. The issue that many academics run into is that they ...

I’m thinking more of reach or of help negotiating contractual obligations with paper publishers.

Maybe they don’t do it, because they don’t know that this is an option.

Yeah, I don’t know. Journalist writing about some research that is done is still effective, and useful for that academic. Maybe they wouldn’t, by default, have access, much like a peer in a different university.

It has always been the academics want people to read their research. They’re proud of it, and they do that to be cited and read by people…

Yeah. What about in things that don’t have a direct business application?

Do you think that there is a role of government in encouraging it?

Is there not a way for them to do both, submit to journals but retain copyright?

Why not?

Do you find that many people doing scholarly research to just release things into Commons?

Has there been any work to Catholic scholarly work contributed to the Commons through the universities here?

It seems like open Creative Commons stuff is very important to you to have Taiwan contribute more to the Commons.

…beyond copyright. None of them do at all in any way. I’ve always been very confused by it.

I’ve always thought that museums should digitize a lot of their things, especially 3D scans of objects. There’s no reason not to. They are obviously…

Interesting. I had a question, then I thought about art. Then I forgot my question.

Are there other public infrastructure projects in the future?

That is our reliance on Facebook.

The time they spend on Facebook. One thing I notice is many businesses don’t have websites, so they have Facebook pages.

The users of Facebook?

You don’t think that Facebook, for example?

Are you concerned about how large of a monopoly on attention private social media has?

What do you view as the civic goods or services, civic infrastructure?

I can understand that.

I think the concept of use is different from the concept of addictiveness.

It’s not that there are other things that don’t do what Facebook does because there are things that do what Facebook does, everyone is on Facebook. With public platforms, how do you solve the problem of getting people to rely on them as opposed to the private platforms?

I feel like the issue with these private companies in the social space is partially that they’re closed source, but also partially that they have locked in all of these users. This is where the community is.

For any specific purpose, someone could make their own version of it.

What activities do you think that people currently do on places like Reddit that you think would be better suited by…?

Then what aspects of Reddit or other social media platforms do you think that this replaces again?