Minister Audrey Tang, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us and share about the digitization of Taiwan. And on that note, I hand things back to our moderator.

Now, El Salvador last week became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. I would love to hear your take on this whether governments would ever consider using cryptocurrency as legal tender in Taiwan,

Minister, finally, we can’t talk about digitization without talking about digital currency. True or false, a digital economy needs to include digital currency.

Climate change, sustainability, and ESG are all topical and important. What are you doing to encourage digital technologies to be developed and used in an environmentally friendly way?

How about the way that technology has impacted health care, the importance of the health care innovation as well as the digitization in this industry?

I think Taiwan has been a big beneficiary of COVID in the sense that it is a tech powerhouse, is the crown jewel, TSMC. The world’s largest contract ship maker, a big beneficiary of the global demand for electronics, used in both study and for work from home. Has the ...

Now, as we, of course, are now spending more time on a computer, on technology, we’re also being inundated by information and news on the computer as well. Now, as we’re always in the inter webs, what are you guys doing in terms of filtering out misinformation? How do people…are ...

Share with us how you’re educating residents, reaching out to both youths and even seniors in terms of your e-literacy programs. What methods are you using for youths which should be different than for the elderly population?

When we talk about the use of technology in a city, I’ll give an example. Here in Hong Kong when the government launched the electronic consumption vouchers, we discovered that it was the elderly that had more difficult time registering and actually using it because it was via either your ...

When we talk about digitization, how much of it should be driven by the government and what kind of role should the private sector be playing?

If we can also talk about the sensitive issue that is stagnant wages that that is also an issue in Taiwan. How important is it to make sure that industries pay their employees at a globally competitive level in order to retain talent and even boost technical expertise?

Now, as we continue to talk about this innovation hub. It went operational in July. Is this catered more for domestic talent or are you also looking overseas? How do you intend to attract international talent?

In this time, just in recently in fact, Taiwan launched the Digital Transformation Innovation Hub in Kaohsiung. Its focus is on the manufacturing sector which has long been a powerhouse in Taiwan. How are you encouraging digital innovation within other sectors like infrastructure, health care, energy efficiency, and transportation?

For Taiwan, COVID was largely kept in check but from May to July, the island saw spiking cases has Taiwan trailed in the digital transformation process because of this, because it didn’t have to rely on it as much and what is being done now to fast track and catch ...

Hi, Minister, different places around the world experience spikes in COVID cases at different times.

Joining us now to discuss this further we have on the line with us from Taipei, Taiwan’s digital minister, Minister Audrey Tang. Thank you for joining us today, and it’s good to see you again.

The digitization of customer and supply chain interactions, and internal operations have been sped up by three to four years. What’s more is that these changes are expected to be long lasting.

According to a McKinsey survey, the health crisis brought on years of technological advancement and change in just a matter of months.

Since then about 20 months has passed and a lot has really happened in the world. The world experienced rapid digitization as a result of the COVID pandemic.

Very Good to see you, Minister. If you may remember the last time we spoke was in January of last year, I was in Taipei in your office, we were preparing to watch the presidential elections.

Thanks very much, Steve and Minister Audrey Tang. Very good to see you and welcome to everybody at Reshape for joining us this morning time here in Hong Kong.