They’re all of the same format. That’s the general idea. As you can see, we don’t see digital as something that is siloed. We see them as common, fertile ground on which the different creativities can happen. Meaning that when we talk about a smart nation, we actually mean people. ...
In each of those bubbles, if you click it, it should take you to the corresponding website that then expands the vision circles. I can send you a list of URLs afterwards.
Meaning development, innovation, governance, and inclusion, corresponding to the shared infrastructure, the private sector, the public sector, and the social sector. I wrote this part. I didn’t write this part.
If you change the SI to a CI, which is collective intelligence, then you get into the data service part of it. If you change the C to AI, you get into the AI part of it. Oops, I should have took out the…here. So on and so forth. If ...
The Social Innovation website covers a lot of those cases already, si.taiwan.gov.tw. For the Civil IoT infrastructure, if you’re interested in the data side, it’s all very easy to remember. It’s all ending in .taiwan.gov.tw, so si.taiwan covers the social innovation.
Sure.
Those are less likely to be citizen-governed. The actual co-op that revolves around low-output wind and solar panel is maybe just enough to cover. We’re not at a point where they have a lot of extra to sell back to Taipower. We’re not quite where, say, Germany is, but we’re ...
In any case, what I’m getting at is that renewable energy in the form of solar panels as well as wind power are the two main directions Taiwan is going. Wind power is more widely accepted and actually will take on a large fraction of our total energy input, a ...
That’s the defining characteristics of macro-institutions, which is why I insist on being horizontal.
It depends on how high you are in the institution.
Like if they over-rely on subsidies, we know that never works. Thank you for providing a pilot, I guess.
There are parts of Japan that they got something working. We’re learning from that. We, frankly speaking, learn even more from places that didn’t get anything right.
I visited a few model townships, and I’ve read a book that takes a lot of anecdotes about people successfully teleworking. I think they were built that way exactly because they met a lot of resistance in every other place.
…provides a system for fact-based conversation among all the stakeholders and communities. The great thing that you’re from Japan means that I don’t have to explain all this to you. [laughs]
We have a system called TESAS that, just like RESAS…
As long as they correspond to Sustainable Goals and they can attract young people to return or to stay there to start their own ecosystem and preferably give more births as compared to municipalities, which we took from Japan.
The Regional Revitalization Plan means that if the local people figure something out with help from the local universities and colleges, teleworking public servants, and so on, the central government gives a guaranteed introduction of investment budget, coaching, things like that, in a way that is very long-term thinking.
If you introduce solar panels, it improves rather than takes away the sustainability of this ecosystem because it was designed with sustainability in mind. This kind of collaborative design in Taiwan is part of the Regional Revitalization Plan. If the local businesses…I don’t have to explain that because we took ...
They can control the salinity by opening and closing the door toward the common gateway to the strait, to the ocean, on strategic times in the rising and falling of the tide. It’s very energy-saving. It’s low-density farming. It can be very easily collaborating with other ecosystem players – and ...
A few days ago, we visited a place where they do clam farming. I went to the water and took some clams. I’m a vegetarian, but I eat oysters and clams because they don’t suffer. In any case, the idea there is that, because they’re close enough to the sea, ...
Sure. What we learned from Japan is that having solar panels and citizen-owned power supplies not necessarily covering 100 percent of their users, because every place is different, creates a co-ownership and mutual care.
It’s mostly food. As you can see, our number one consensus is food that is live-streamed, and it’s so symbolic. If you hear of social innovation and maybe you don’t understand it, but you’re in a place where lots of good food, at least next week you will return. That’s ...
Very much so.
Unless you have common enemies.
There’s a social script.
That’s right.
Or scale deeply.
Or scale out.
Excellent.
They’re citizen scientists!
I’ve heard of it.
Democratizing.
That’s fine.
That’s right. It took me ages to figure out they’re kind of two sides of the same thing, trying to sell back to their different disciplines.
One puts the space at the center, and one put the human.
It’s just hanging out, right?
The idea is that there’s a human geographer doing a internship here with our space. There was also another that focused on the anthropology, but focusing on spaces, so how space defines culture in anthropology. It’s very interesting because if you look at their research methods, it’s the same.
[laughs] Sorry. No, go ahead.
Which is like cultural anthropology, but the other way around.
It used to be that there’s people typing and there’s people taking direct action. Now, these two are fused again back into one. It’s like this shape of community-building. I’m talking of very broad brushes, but…
You can immediately replicate it here just by turning down the light and turning up the volume. Then it feels like you’re with them. That mobile computing really changed the landscape.
For example, during the Sunflower Occupy, you can literally see across the walls of the Occupy legislation by virtue of having a phone or a projector that shows what happens across the street. Recently, Hong Kong, you can hear a tactic or a new interaction pattern emerging two blocks from ...
The second-largest change is mobile computing, of course. With mobile computing, people can suddenly both take direct action, but at the same time, maintain the institutional link between the algorithm-defined collaborations.
Ilya Eric Lee, he’s no longer around in this world now, but if you read his blog, the Ilyagram, there’s a lot of early context. He also introduced Nettimes and many other international communities to Taiwan.
Blogging became a way for individuals who identifies with an idea to form micro-institutions purely online without the traditional on-the-land organization. Because many traditional social organization also blog, it created a solidarity.
After they all get lifted to the Internet space, it took two large changes. One is the introduction of blogging, and, after that, micro-blogging, this kind of public writing, like in Japan the Hatena or Livedoor.
As an association, I think ‘93, something like that. There’s a Wikipedia article. They re-incorporated as a company maybe ‘97.
Y-A-M.
I think they would be much more equipped than I am because I was busily advocating for open source – at that time, it’s not even called open source – free software movement back then. I’m happy to make introductions.
