What does the Right Livelihood Award mean for you, and how will it further your work?

(From John) How can alignment assemblies play a central role in depolarizing politics in countries on the front lines of freedom and democracy?

Would you consider Trump’s friends as good caretakers of TikTok? Quite a weird partnership, Trump and TikTok, couldn’t Trump just take advantage of that?

(From Peter, Radar.dk) Do you see any changes in the technological and political relation between the US and Taiwan in Trump 2.0?

Are the tools that Taiwan used available in a place for reuse?

How do you balance the protection of free expression while also preventing harmful disinformation from undermining civic trust?

What is your view on U.S. AI projects like Stargate? Some people would say that the U.S. and Big Tech are using the AI hype to expand existing monopolies in social media and cloud and so on. In practice, for customers it could be hard.

You seem like a very productive person. Is that because you work night and day or do you have people working for you? Do you have some recommendations or methods for that?

(From Ryan Takeshita, TBS Tokyo) Throughout the world, from government to Supreme Courts to higher education, respected institutions are losing people’s trust. And you were the digital minister of Taiwan, so why do you think government institutions are losing trust and how can they regain back that trust?

Should the EU build so-called sovereign AI with American companies as OpenAI and Microsoft, or should they build with only European partners like Mistral AI?

If you have to name one priority for the global community to ensure technology strengthens rather than weakens democracy, what would it be?

Looking back on your previous job as the first digital minister of Taiwan, how could Taiwan’s experience with digital democracy be adapted to other countries, especially where the governments are much less open than in Taiwan?

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With the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence worldwide, what safeguards do you believe are the most urgent to protect democracy and human rights?

What is your opinion of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR?

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Is there any chance, you can urge deans of higher education facilities like NCTU to deploy IPv6?

Can we see any legislator supporting free software in the government movement, like Public Money, Public Code from the EFF?

What is your opinion on e-commerce application refusing to operating on restriction-free devices like rooted Androids and jailbroken iDevices. Is it fair?

Shared objects in the tax filing plugin is not open source. Why?

Is it possible to be a citizen in Taiwan and interact fully with the government without using any proprietary software?

Why is Taiwan so restrictive on Internet access, captive portals, register with ID for iTaiwan WiFi access, etc.? Is there the reason, bad experiences or not?

Does Taiwan has an open-source strategy?

It’s good that you discovered Debian, and what makes it interesting at such a young age, do you run Debian yourself? Have you contributed to Debian?

What do you wish from Debian?

How can we help other governments enable open standards?

What is your favorite programming language?

What is your recommended reading list for facilitation? How did you start your learning about facilitation?

That’s quite comforting to hear. What do you think human communication will be like in the AI era?

In your role, how do you create opportunities for face-to-face dialogues for communication with a human touch?

In regard to attitudes toward public affairs, we seem to have two extremes. On the one end, some have very strong opinions about issues; on the other hand, some are indifferent and uninvolved. What do you think we can do to improve the quality of citizen participation?

After joining the cabinet, what is your vision of becoming “the most capable government ever in terms of communication”? What do you think caused the issue of trust right now?

In Canada, the government works with ICA Canada (Institute of Culture Affairs, Canada) to include ORID Focused Conversation method or other facilitation skills as part of the personal development program for civil servants. It’s nice to know our government is also supportive of developing civil servant’s facilitation skills. Will there ...

You mentioned learning to facilitate is part of the civil servant’s development program. Can you tell us more?

How would citizens further understand discussions like this?

How do stakeholders and citizens participate in these collaborative meetings?

How long was the discussion process for the Hengchun petition?

Facilitators like us often incorporate the focused conversation method, also known as ORID, in our processes. We heard that you also use this method to facilitate governmental meetings. Can you tell us how it helps these meetings? What types of meetings would you recommend using ORID?

How do you verify their identities?

How did you manage to get ministries involved?

Could everyone change everything?

Yes.

Do you know of any other movement that big in Europe?

You have been traveling throughout the world basically. Do you have a concrete example about a collaboration with another country?

About the international circulation of these tools. You mentioned Hong Kong. I am wondering how China reacted to this broadcast? Re Loomio - do you have relationships with South-America and Spain?

Is it not excluding a part of the population?

Where do you find money? Do you take donations?

Who comes to the hackathons?

Is it open source? What tools do you use?

How does the government react?

What do people work on during the hackathons?