This is not just for films, but also for National Health Museum and other digitization of museum products, so that people can have a virtual museum. This is like the Smithsonian or the British Museum thing, where not only we’re digitizing the museum artifacts, but also turning the process of ...

Meaning that the entire processing pipeline of something going in and then a 4K film goes out, every part of it is going to be published as an aid for the private sector to try to get into 4K or 8K production.

This proposes to not only make the byproducts, like the high‑quality picture database or whatever open data, which means Creative Commons, open content for everybody to use, but also the pipeline itself is to be made open source.

They put a lot of love into it. The byproducts of doing this work, like 4K or all sorts of pipelines for providing closed captions, motion capture, or VR devices, all these things are not kept after each theater film is made.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. We have this public TV, and we also have the National Palace Museum and so on. They used to spend a lot of time doing digitization of their assets and also make "Teenage Psychic" HBO films.

The third one is about open content development. This is interesting, because it’s the first time that we put Creative Commons, open content, and so on, distinct from open data. Previously, it was this huge open data plan.

4.2 is about equality, so that all the counties and townships which currently doesn’t have high bandwidth connection, like 100 Mbps or more, does get that. Also, on the schools, they’re supposed to get very high bandwidth, good enough for VR‑based classroom development. The first two are really basic infrastructure ...

The bullet points, there are five here. From the left, the first one is about cybersecurity. It’s about making sure that all the connected devices, including IoT, are reasonably trustworthy. It’s becoming a large concern here. It also covers the broadband access.

If you look for DIGI+, which is the abbreviation, I think you’ll find more material. It’s not a very Google‑able term though. We took part of the DIGI+ and put it into the special budget called [Chinese] , the Forward‑Looking Infrastructure Plan.

It’s just called "A Digital Nation: an Innovative Economy," literally. The BOST is our Board of Science and Technology. This is an eight‑year plan, and the moniker is DIGI+.

For tech ecosystem, quite a few things. I’d probably point them to the Digital Nation plan, which is on the BOST website. It’s an eight‑year plan with pretty reasonable anarchy, and it’s all in Chinese. Yeah, something like that. Some of them make sense, some not at all.

Oh, yeah.

It’s like 95 percent or something.

There’s also looking through the national archives using OCR and text mining to find anything and everything related to Taiwan. There’s the Open Platform as a Service Platform for civic tech developers. There’s also the councilor member voting guide. The translations are pretty reasonable.

It’s pretty good, the line bot about rumors online. The test transparency of workplaces, like the job searches, like Glassdoor. There’s the micro climate sensor and prediction system for agriculture. This aims to provide an API for the judicial branch, for all the judges and prosecutors, all the documents to ...

You can see the winners for this season...

These are the judges and that’s pretty much it. It’s just a way to get a lot of early‑stage projects started at g0v. Many of them didn’t get continued because it’s difficult to keep them as weekend projects, especially after they are really serious, so they just set up this ...

This is entirely not government funded. All the funding sources came from non‑governmental side of things.

It’s reasonably machine‑translation friendly, though. It’s just grants.g0v.tw. It’s an early prototype fund. There’s the spring term, there’s the autumn term, and then people propose things that solve social issues and problems using technology. This is the nominations, and I think five of them got funding.

There’s a comparable, but not the same fund, for social enterprise. A company that also solves social problems or people on mission of solving social problems that happens to earn sustainable money. That’s more of my purview. The NDF wouldn’t be my purview. It would be NDC’s purview, but those ...

Yeah.

NDF?

What else? There’s also the NDC investment fund around early‑stage start‑up and also social enterprise. It used to be a SBIR. It used to be a reimbursement subsidy‑based plan, but now it’s an investment plan.

But in Taiwan, of course, based here. I am part of the supervising committee, but they work at arm’s length as an independent agency. We just review their quarterly results around these matters, which you can find online. That’s the other part.

Based in Taoyuan actually

We hired a bunch of very seasoned Silicon Valley people and held them at...

The Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency. This is relatively new. It’s basically a showcase website with two main topics, the IoT innovation R&D for one, and then start‑up entrepreneurship ecosystem for another. There’s quite a few news outlets here that announces the organizational structure.

Sure. There’s the ASVDA, if you’ve seen the website.

That’s the story.

Digital economy and technology management, and high‑tech and e‑commerce pretty much covers everything that’s start‑up related.

The story here is we’re working on the definition of so‑called special professionals. These are people who get paid reasonably well, on the top quarter, or if they got recommended by one of the institutes, or as senior executive or manager, or anyone who works in the focal industries.

The name’s the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professional Talent. The consultation website is join.gov.tw.

It’s two‑tier. There’s foreign professional talent. There’s special professional. [laughs] The idea for the special professional, the consultation’s already done. We’re ratifying it very quickly. This week I think they’re going to send it to the legislation. This basically summarizes everything.

It’s called the Draft Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professional Talent.

This one?

I could give you a quick briefing. [laughs] There’s the Foreign Talent Act. You’re aware of that?

That’s fine.

Just in case you need to show anything, there’s an Apple TV in this office Thanks for visiting.

Cheers.

OK.

Yeah, it’s interesting.

Yeah. Also, diversity with the ecosystem, and sustainability, and climate change, and everything.

When we do economic development, we have a lot more things to consider, is what I’m saying. It’s not saying this is not important.

They’re also developing ties with US and with many other countries. I think it’s mostly the economy first strategy and message in a sense that causes this tremendous election result, because this administration was elected on the principle of fairness and diversity.

If you see the economic development as the first priority goal, and China being this huge, growing market, of course you will want to find other trade agreements with China. It’s reasonable choice in any case.

I know, but you see that in the campaign. The KMT was putting this economy first.

Yeah.

The point, when I talk about equality, it not just about economic equality, but cultural equality as well. There’s a fundamental difference in this particular cabinet of the attitudes around...The economic development is of course they’re very important, but it’s second place to fairness and cultural diversity.

No, it’s the Han script, but the words are different. It’s not entirely legible, and that’s not mentioning the aboriginal languages, of which there are many. We’re also working on machine translation for them.