May glory make us strong.

Freedom and liberty belong to your heart. May glory make us strong.

Darkness breaks apart. Express your dreams and sing our song.

Darkness breaks apart…

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There’s a crack, a crack in everything, but that’s how the light gets in.”

I’ll just repeat my closing remarks, and so you can send a copy of that video for me.

Taiwan being at least rising for four million years now, is older than humankind, and so it will continue to exist along with our beautiful biodiversity. 10 percent of marine biodiversity on the Earth is around the seas around Taiwan. Our job as Homo sapiens is to protect this plurality ...

Taiwan’s future is growing upwards, toward the sky. Our highest mountain, the Jade Mountain, is almost 4,000 meters now, and it’s growing 5 centimeters every year, so we just keep rising up toward the sky.

We can see that when it’s an authoritarian system on one side and a democratic system on the other side, the delineation between the two inevitably cause conflicts in cases not just jurisdictional, but also in cyberspace where they overlap with no clear territorial boundaries.

I think none of the Taiwan presidential candidates have anything to even consider that so‑called “one country, two system” policy now.

Sorry. Please, repeat.

…and we’re on the record.

We’re one country with many parties, but that has nothing to do with parties… More like “one country, no parties?”

Sorry, that’s not even true. It’s “one country, two systems.”

What?

The Hong Kong protesters have perfected that art of “being water,” turning leaderless movements into an art that I very much admire.

We didn’t do completely leaderless movement back then. We have around 20 NGOs or so coordinating different aspects of the movement, but the demonstration was not just a protest. It’s a demo of how it could work in a leaderless environment.

Since the MPs were on the strike, so to speak, so people took their seats and begin their work, which is to deliberate the CSSTA, very much in a way that are leaderless.

Personally, only five years ago, I was in our parliament, and not by invitation. We occupied it, and so that’s called the Sunflower Movement of 2014. That was because, at that time, the government was rushing through the Cross‑Strait Service and Trade Agreement, or CSSTA, a deal with Beijing that ...

Every other country facing disinformation crisis have taken some actions that concentrates power somewhat back into the state, but only in Taiwan, we countered disinformation by making the state transparent completely to the people. Every other jurisdiction is being tempted around making their citizens more transparent to the state, but ...

Taiwan is the only jurisdiction, in our region within the Indo‑Pacific, that currently, as evaluated by the CIVICUS Monitor as absolutely open when it comes to the freedom of assembly, the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, and things like that.

Rather, everybody who are constituents, who are fighting for something, for a social cause, environmental cause and so on, should all be at the table and make policies together. This kind of norm first architecture approach is exactly embodied in the forming of the Oslo Freedom Forum.

We’re promoting this idea of co-gov, as called by the UN — Digital Interdependence — that means that around things around digital, it’s not just the technologists making the decision, nor are the lawyers making all the decisions.

I am a hacktivist myself. [laughs] I’m working with the government now, not for the government. For me, my office is already a intersection of all those roles.

I’m here to deliver the opening remark, to share with the world that Taiwan has built a way to counter disinformation, to make sure that everybody have digital broadband access by relying and indeed trusting more on the social sector, rather than concentrating power on the public or the private ...

Hello, I’m Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of social innovation and open government.

All right. So, thank you.

Of course. I will actually be in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, around mid-November, but maybe yeah, we can just figure out something.

Just forward my email address to him, of course.

That cannot vote.

Residents.

Oh.

OK, excellent.

There’s no copyright, so feel free to contribute more translations and stickers.

It’s six languages.

Here is the manga for you.

Yes. Of course.

A knife, yeah?

I’ll get some gifts.

Gifts?

That’s right.

Once everybody is comfortable with that, maybe we change the law to say that people like me can get a non-binary gender. But at that time, the norm policy and code would be all ready for it, so there would be little fuss. If I started top-down way, saying that ...

When we change the code, we will run into the issue, for example, people in Australia, they have this idea of non-binary gender. What should they map into? We decided they should map into A7, but because of the existing A7, our code must now handle non-binary gender without changing ...

What we’re now doing is starting next year also, the foreign people would get a different numbering, what used to be AA would be A8, what used to be AC would be A9, for example. Because of this, they are now of the same code, and they can get a ...

This is not only digital systems, but also physical systems. It’s not a law, there’s no law that says we must discriminate foreign people versus local people. It’s in the code, and the code is both represents the architecture like in software code, but also just the coded forms. Anything ...

Many systems, for example ordering movies, ordering train tickets, and so on, only check for this format, and not this format. Essentially what it did is that it made sure that the nationals can always get reservation, but for many services if you’re a permanent resident, but you’re of a ...

For foreign people, even after they get a permanent certificate for residency, they would have another numbering. They would have A-A-something and A-C-something. Everybody can see very easily that these are nationals and these are foreign people who may have permanent residence.

Yes. Essentially, for example, in Taiwan, national people have a national ID. The national ID all begins with a letter symbolizing the city you’re born in and the number signifying the gender. Someone would be A-1-2-something-something. Somebody would be A-2-3-something-something.

Conflicts from everybody.

Plastic straws, and they would articulate this norm and interact with the market people who would set a policy for how many volume they would switch to sugar cane. That would then be code, and the code would be coded into regulation or municipal code, and finally made into national ...