Did you start this whole system?
I heard that.
When you mentioned this Kaohsiung organization who…
They’re a social enterprise?
Are they a company?
They’re a private company? They’re a for-profit company?
I guess my question is, really there’s no conflict of interest that you’re just promoting one private company.
You said there are 400 of these organizations?
In other words, they’re on a list. If people somewhere in the world are interested, you can find the right people.
Can I ask you, did you go on these trips as well?
Yeah. Did you go…?
Do you help to find these enterprises or to take them abroad?
Just one of the things, going back to the thing you mentioned about the mountains and the forests, can I just check the beginning of that whole debate. How did that become one of your topics? Was it…?
They complain about it and you hear about it, or do they come to you? Did the government decide we got to do something about this? I just wonder how the process begins. Is it totally bottom-up or is it top-down? [laughs]
On any topic.
Was that always the case, or is that something you introduced?
That was Wang Jin-pyng.
[laughs]
What was the name of the platform you just mentioned, the website?
That’s publicly…?
You still needed four separate documents…?
The Secretary General?
You set up lots of debates.
The officers you mentioned in each ministry, sorry, what did you say they were called?
When did that job start?
Is there something like that in ministries in other countries?
You didn’t copy it from somewhere else, this is your…
Was this your own sort of…?
The participation officers, their role is to get public participation, to respond…
Is there one for every ministry?
Do you feel that the system is working as well as it could do?
Is it evolving?
The voting method is what, between the different ministerial people?
You vote for the ones which you think are the most important?
Is that usually easy to get agreement?
Anyone with relevant knowledge can be part of it.
Just on this forest and mountain thing, is that now resolved? Is it finished?
Is that the same one? No, that’s a different website.
Has that happened already, or that’s going to happen?
The whole thing is still being debated basically.
There is now already a simpler system, is there?
You can still update the beta test approach.
Roughly when do you think the whole thing will be resolved or…
This is on an open platform?
Which is provided by the government?
People will be refining it by adding information?
Say that you make a basic change, like you make it much simpler to get this permit. Is that basically finished, or is there still the potential for further revision of the rules?
I’m afraid I’m not an expert on these ideas.
Because there used to be a lot of restrictions?
That’s to do again with sort of defense issues?
