I do sometimes mentally leave the room when facing a group of people, not when public speaking, but oftentimes during parties. I hope that’s OK. [laughs]

The difficulty conveying the passion. I find public presentation very natural, as well as the idea that bring forward the feelings. I always convey the feelings first, and then the ideas following the feelings, especially on very well-rehearsed transcripts like this.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

But consistent feedback have so far been just inspiring, enlightening, and/or mind-blowing.

"What consistent feedback have you received on my presentations?" I actually learned a lot from the materials you sent me, especially about how I can slow down to emphasize some points. I do have a habit of talking actually faster than my current speed during talks. I think I would ...

For pre-recorded videos such as this one, I rehearse several times, convert recording to transcripts, edit the transcripts into speaker’s notes, rehearse again, and rinse and repeat, so quite a few times, like five times, at least.

Back to the inventory. "How do you prepare for presentations? Do you script, draft, notes-notes." I’m not sure what’s a notes-notes, but yeah. Then, "What’s the winging it?"

This is this letter of participation, starting from voting, clicktivism, to sharing of open data, of real-time feedback forms and discussions, all the way to deliberations. That’s the basic three stories that I’m going to tell.

The third story is about how I practice radical transparency as an anarchist digital minister since 2016, by transparently answering all journalists’ questions -- everything’s on the record, even VR 360 record -- and how we use free software exclusively in our team to boost our creativity and have one ...

We use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and so on, to get thousands of people’s opinions on Uber, and translated that into a set of regulations that everybody can live with. That’s how we solved the Uber problem and how I became the digital minister.

The second story is going to be about the same technology to solve the Uber regulation issue in 2015 through co-creating regulations. It’s going to go into some details of the focused conversation method, about how we get people’s facts, and then people’s feelings about those facts, their ideas about ...

Back to the presentation. The beginning, I’ll talk about three stories. The first story is about how we occupied the Parliament for 22 days, and how civic technology helped facilitating half a million protesters to peaceful consensus.

The format usually looks like this, where we have a lot of people asking questions and liking each other’s questions. I will, in the second half of the talk, highlight one of the questions, very quickly answer it, and then archive it away and highlight another. That’s the basic format.

OK, great. The idea is that I will just speak for a few sentences, and saying for people who want to ask me questions, they can do so on this Slido forum. They can use their phones to go to slido.com, and enter today’s date, which is 10/29, and then ...

I’ll very quickly show it to you. It’s like this. Can you see my share screen now?

For the presentation, I plan on only appearing in the first few seconds, then followed by the presentation itself, which is mostly in emoji. Have you seen the presentation?

Question two, "What props or visuals do you use to convey your message?"

Because the title of my talk is The Future of Democracy. The story that I’m going to tell is about some very experimental way that in Taiwan we’re doing democratic deliberations. That’s the reason.

The format is a prerecorded 10-minutes video. It’s not in-person, actually. I need to record a 10-minute video, they play it, and follow by 10 minutes Q&A through a crowdsourced question format.

The first sentence during that talk is "Greetings from the future. I’m literally in the future. Eight hours, to be exact," which is the case for London. Otherwise it’s 12.

I assume that you mean the presentation training inventory thing. My first sentence that’s my presentation, I actually have a script that I used in New York. This is going to be abridged version of it.

The Mozilla people thought tele-presenting is OK, because I did the same thing in Barcelona a while ago and it seems to work pretty well. In Florence, but soon in Barcelona, too.

How come? First of all, as a cabinet minister it requires months of preparation and convincing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

No, I’m not.

No, it’s fine. That’s actually the same situation as the MozFest, because I’ll be tele-participating, also, through Skype.

I’m in Taipei, so we’re 12 hours apart.

Hi. This is my 9:30 PM the local time. [laughs]

There’s three Joes, as well. Good morning.

It is the correct Audrey Tang. That’s my Skype ID, by the way.

Hello.

Thank you. Cheers.

Sure, of course.

That’s the two main recurring events. Starting mid-October, there’s also the office hour in the Taiwan Air Force Park.

There’s many meetups. Every Wednesday afternoon, there’s a vTaiwan meeting of the g0v, vTaiwan project. That’s every Wednesday, 2:00 PM. There’s also meetings with the participation officers, the public servants currently getting some education from our team on how to listen to the public. That’s every Friday.

Every Wednesday and Friday, you can find me in more colorful places, meeting with stakeholders and with the civil society.

I do socialize with the g0v community, and the wider social innovation community every Wednesday, and also Friday. I work outside of the Administration Building every Wednesday and Friday, unless there is an interview, like today.

I work until 6:00 PM, and commute back home, and really start working afterward until midnight.

I don’t have a pastime. [laughs]

I’m going to New Zealand for a week, starting tomorrow. There’s no filming during that. Otherwise, I’m going to co-chair for a collaborative meeting, but that’s not very colorful, unless you like public hearings.

Right.

That’s right.

We have a lot of exhibitions too. You can film me chatting with one of the exhibitors or whatever.

Every Wednesday morning, I come there to work. You can find social innovators and other people joining me, and having a discussion about the social enterprise programs at the moment in Taiwan. I’m also responsible for that.

We have a batch of maybe 20 teams. We are still reviewing them at the moment. In addition to co-working there, there’s also proof-of-service, proof-of-concept shows, exhibitions, and markets in the future of all the different social innovations that’s happening around Taiwan, including achieving the sustainable development goals.

There, you can find many startups, social enterprises using software to solve the social issues to further the common good.

Yeah, office hour. Every Wednesday, starting mid-October, I work in the Taiwan Air Force Social Innovation Center.

Starting late October, I have an office hour in a local incubator.

Sure.

Just list me as part of the steering committee. That’s the most fair way of describing it.

You can’t say that. In ASVDA, as well as DIGI⁺, there are three Ministers without Portfolio collectively overseeing.