| s-1
| When I tour around Taiwan, of course, I also find people taking action without even waiting for the ministries to take action. |
| s-2
| This is another of the g0v projects the environmental agency. |
| s-3
| If you change the O to a zero, you get into them, considering environmental agency. |
| s-4
| This is what people care about, the air quality, PM2.5 in Taiwan. |
| s-5
| More than 2,000 people, actually, installed these in their balconies, in their schools and so on, to get a real-time sensor of their IoT devices but not just IoT. |
| s-6
| They also upload it to the public cloud, which then uploads it to a distributed ledger to make sure that nobody can modify those numbers after the fact. |
| s-7
| After that, we see this kind of innovation is very rare in Asia. |
| s-8
| When I talk to all the UN-related bodies, many other Asian countries tell me that they won't let this network grow to be 2,000 nodes strong. |
| s-9
| If it's 200 nodes strong, they will try to poach the leader to the government. |
| s-10
| If they refuse, then maybe, they get disappeared because they really challenge the legitimacy of the environmental agency. |
| s-11
| If the environmental agency group reports one number and your neighbors report another number, of course, you're going to trust the one that you participated yourself, even though it's a lower quality sensor. |
| s-12
| Because of that, it's very rare in Taiwan because we have an expanding civic space. |
| s-13
| The government takes the approach of, 'we can't beat them, let's join them'. |
| s-14
| We manufacture low-cost, high-precision sensors for them, but we also see this as a map of digital gap in Taiwan, a digital divide. |
| s-15
| We set up points when the people don't have the resource to go to, indigenous places, places in the mountains. |
| s-16
| We also talk to the citizen scientists and they say they really want a point here to tell the air pollution from outside Taiwan or from inside Taiwan, domestically. |
| s-17
| There's no way the citizen scientists can install an AirBox there, even if they're very good at drones and so on. |
| s-18
| It's impossible to stay there forever. |
| s-19
| We can because we have wind turbines. |
| s-20
| That's electricity generators, power plants, over there. |
| s-21
| We can install those sensor networks as part of the complementary action. |
| s-22
| The beauty is this, it's all open hardware. |
| s-23
| It's all open source. |
| s-24
| It's on GitHub. |
| s-25
| You just download, put it onto Raspberry Pi, and then, you can do it yourself, as people have done over the world. |
| s-26
| If you don't change the source code, it uploads to the Taiwan network by default, so we kind of have the numbers of all the atmosphere and meteorological data. |
| s-27
| We have a website dedicated for this, the Civil IoT project at CI.taiwan.gov.tw, that is basically, collective intelligence, meteorological, air quality, earthquake, and disaster prevention, and things like that. |
| s-28
| We have single websites like this, CI for Collective Intelligence, AI for AI Taiwan, SI for Social Innovation, Smart Taiwan for the Smart Taiwan plan, and also, Bio Taiwan. |
| s-29
| The medical industry says, 'You really should call it biomed.taiwan because bio and med are different things.' |
| s-30
| Biomed Taiwan goes to the same website as Bio Taiwan. |
| s-31
| In any case, what we're doing is now is breaking across ministry and municipality and national government because this says nothing about the level of the government or the departments. |
| s-32
| It is one, single message that is collaboratively curated by everybody. |
| s-33
| Through this, we solved not just our local social and environmental issues through economic approaches but using the SDGs as a map to unite the efforts together. |
| s-34
| Just by saying 'Taiwan can help', we mean specifically, 17, 18, which is the availability of reliable data that people from across sectors, across jurisdictions, can trust the data. |
| s-35
| Then, based on the data, we encourage cross-sectoral partnerships. |
| s-36
| Then, based on that, we make open innovations that we, then, export, not as colonizers but, really, co-creators. |
| s-37
| Just download it on GitHub and then, we devise something together in a way that has free access to science and technology. |
| s-38
| When I joined the cabinet two years ago, based on these ideas -- with a contract -- the administration asked me for a job description, because they've never seen anything like this before. |
| s-39
| Instead of a job description, I just wrote them a poem, a prayer, which I'm going to read to you as a conclusion. |
| s-40
| To me, it means the shift from IT or ICT to digital, the shift from the sectors separately as attack or an innovation, or whatever, into the humanity as a whole. |
| s-41
| This is digital transformation for me. |
| s-42
| This is, literally, my job description. |
| s-43
| It goes like this. |
| s-44
| 'When we see the Internet of Things, let's make it an Internet of Beings. |
| s-45
| When we see virtual reality, let's make it a shared reality. |
| s-46
| When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. |
| s-47
| When we see user experience, let's make it about human experience, and whenever we hear that a singularity is near, let's keep in mind and always remember that a plurality is here.' |
| s-48
| Thank you so much. |