Good evening, Minister Tang. Thank you for the very refreshing talk. Listening to you gives me the impression that the politicians in Taiwan are very kind and generous, patriotic. Your citizens are very well informed. I’m thinking, what could be the conditions that are making this possible for Taiwan?

What they’re doing now to be successful? Also, for countries like the Philippines for instance where I come from, where there’s a lot of misinformation, and a lot of not so well-informed citizens.

Open-source platform, like listening to all their voices might not necessarily work, and there might be a tendency for democracy to turn into a mobocracy. What can you say about those two things?

Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot. First of all, Minister Tang, thanks a lot for your presence here today. At least for me, it was an eye-opening session until now. I thought before this session that if I wanted to contribute in any way into society, I had either to pay taxes or actually elect our leaders.

What you’re demonstrating today is the involvement. Indeed, empowerment can be given to the people through these information technology tools, that you are, I would say, surfing the wave of the revolution. That was great. Thanks a lot for that. It’s an education for me.

My question goes back to the war topic that Dr. Konishi just asked you. I have two questions related with that. First, what would be your opinion of certain active groups, for instance the Anonymous? Apparently, a couple of weeks ago they published that they will actually be taking sides in this war, in this case, against Russia.

When I read that, of course a bunch of conspiracy theories goes around my head. For instance, if today they are against Russia, tomorrow, another group can be pro-Russia. If there’s another conflict somewhere else, these groups might start popping up.

They are, I would say, replacing what we call democracy because these people are not traceable. You cannot retaliate against them. They are definitely not representing one country, one nation. This would be at least the way I see it. I would love to hear your opinion about it.

The second question is consequential. I am completely uneducated about IT and everything else. What actually these folks can do from a distance in their computers? Can they shut down a refinery in Russia? Can they actually press the red button on someone’s behalf? Is this something that is reality or is this science fiction?

Thanks for that.

Sorry. It’s me again. Thank you very much for everything so far. It’s been, for me also, very illuminating.

In terms of the question that was asked previously about age, old age and digitalization, how do you prevent a situation of increasing economic inequality as a result of increasing digitalization? In other words, people who have been well-versed in digitalization will have the skills and the facilities to do so much more than those who don’t.

I’m a member of a golf club in Japan, where the membership is quite old. They refuse to send out emails to members because it disadvantages the people who don’t do email. Everyone has to receive letters from the golf club. That’s just a small example.

In a rapidly aging society, how do you prevent this economic inequality from taking place through increased digitalization? How do you keep everyone in the same boat?

Say at the same time. If you send an email to the members, some of the members are too old to do email. If they want to participate in a competition, they have to…It’s only a small example. I’m sorry.

I see what you mean. Here in New…I’m joining from the UK at the moment.

During COVID, the bottom 25, 30 percent of the school children who don’t have computers at home or who have to share them with their brothers and sisters or their parents, who simply didn’t have the kinds of facilities to join school when school was happening remotely as the richer kids who were able to supplement their education through tutorials, and so on.

This has caused a huge problem here in the UK. I still suspect that digitalization is not a total 100 percent blessing on the world for the people who live in the bottom 10, 20, 30 percent.

Well, I think the bottom line is I wish we had a ministry of education like you have in Taiwan in the UK. Thank you.

Yes, it is.

Go ahead.

Hi. Good morning. I’m in Brazil, so good morning. This has been very enlightening. I’m not even quite sure what my question is because there’s so many things going on right now. Thank you for sharing with us.

I am a public administration student, but I have a class in business administration. This has been very different from other lectures that we’ve heard so far. You kind of indirectly talked a lot about diversity. You mentioned being non-binary, and Asian, and age-related topics, and things like that.

Public administration and from the public point of view, you have to be very inclusive. You have to design policies for everyone. That also has a lot to do with democracy. I think the private logic though is very different. We’ve been thinking about this course. We have some people approaching in a very different way, like with the private logic and public logic.

I’d like to know what is your take on it? What is the government’s role in all of this? What’s the role of business? What’s the role of government? Also, I’ve been thinking a lot of it, about diversity, and how we’re biased. How can we have a different capitalistic…? The same people who feel disempowered.

I don’t know if I’m being clear. I want to know your thoughts on that.

Good morning, for me. My name is Adriana. I am from Brazil, FGV. It’s a pleasure to listen your opinions about the future. We are living in the fourth revolution. We have a new reality with the artificial intelligence. I want to listen your opinion about the future of jobs in this world so unique in terms access of education and technological education.

Thank you.

I will do it fast. This is a course about the future of capitalism. I guess you cannot discuss the future of capitalism without discussing the United States. Maybe you’ve done some thoughts about what the problem is in the United States, and more interesting, what is the solution.

What are we doing with the US? They are hollowing out their democracy, and 6th of January last year, and so forth. Have you thought about what could they do?

Thank you. I’m working at the manufacturer mainly doing business in healthcare sector. My name is Shu Do. Thank you for your valuable time. Without further ado, let me ask you a question.

If you want to have people really reflected more directly in politics, utilizing digital technology, we support that active participation of each citizen is a prerequisite. I wonder if you agree on that point.

In Japan the voter turnout is declining, and the young people are disengaged from politics. I wonder where the system like Taiwan’s drawing would work well in Japan, or introduction of such a system here in Taiwan would help raise public awareness for the need for participation in democracy.

What do you do to make it join a real function, the system in Taiwan? If you can give us any advice for Japan I’ll be grateful. Thank you very much.

I’m a certified public accountant. I would like to ask about radical transparency that is at the foundation of Taiwan’s initiatives. Government functions include diplomacy, defense and policy that cannot be made public.

In some cases, there may be occasions where government will conduct surveillance of people in order to protect them. How does Taiwan handle the issue of this limitation to transparency? How do you obtain the consent of people with regards to this limitation and secure trust of the people towards the government?

Thank you very much. Yes, in the responses you’ve given just now, that people and contact tracing system within that framework. People trust the system with their own information and information will not be conveyed any further beyond a necessary boundary. It is not used for police or other purposes I understand.

Though, that in the high assistance, the question, he said the diplomacy, defense, and public security, maybe they are not very good for transparency purposes. They should be sometimes excluded for those limitations.

People in Taiwan think that they can trust the government and I wonder how people have nurtured such a trust based relationship. However, based on the specific examples that you cited, they are able to learn that government can be trusted based on such specific cases. May I understand in that way?

Thank you very much. I placed him on a lot of vitamins. I think that’s good for your immunity in your body system. [inaudible 21:48] is our next questionnaire. I’m a certified public accountant. Thank you very much, Minister Tang. You argue that in order to live in a digital society, we need social competence to avoid being misled by close information.

You cited examples of air books in elementary schools are factor checking during the elections by junior high school students. [inaudible 22:09] is effective according to you. What can we do as adults to acquire such skills? What roles can business play in order to make this democracy function more effectively? Those are the questions. Thank you.

In Taiwan, the people trust the government. The government trust the people and the people trust the government because of that. First, the government trust the people, and people started trusting the government. According to your experience, when did you feel people started trusting the government?

I provide support to corporations as a lawyer. Thank you so much for your time today. I would like to ask about the regulation. How the regulation should be vis à vis innovation.

The project I worked on involved AI for inference of emotion. This technology has the potential to lead to profiling of the people. Because of that regulation governing, this area was a hurdle for usage of this technology.

Innovative technologies and services, including transactions of cryptocurrency or drones always involve unknown risks and dangers. Because of that, they tend to be regulated more by doing so towards those regulations. What is your take on that? What is your view about those regulations?

I am a lawyer. Thank you for this opportunity. The one possible solution is to involve companies seeking to provide innovative technologies and services which know about those technologies more than anybody else, to be involved in the rulemaking process in collaboration with other stakeholders, including the government.

How can companies play a leading role in this rulemaking process? What do you think companies should do specifically, in order to speed up that rulemaking process? Thank you very much. Those are the questions.

I work in public affairs department at an auditing firm. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Corporations are generally passive to social implementation or role making unless they have economic incentives. For example, in Japan, some people hope for a wider use of private online dispute resolution services.

However, because it is very costly for corporations to take security counter measures. Audrey san, you talked about the secure environment for using the QR code but for corporations, it’s very costly to take security counter measures and because of that, online dispute resolution services have not spread so much in Japan.