Thank you. Have a good day.

I’ll be sure to include that. I didn’t hear about that. That’s a very good detail. Cool. I think that is all for now. I’ll email you if I have any follow-up questions. Thank you so much for your time.

That makes sense. Besides g0v, is there an end, like your company? Is anybody else in Taiwan who you think that I deserve mentioning in this article? I haven’t been able to follow as closely as you [laughs] and other people.

I haven’t heard that much about it but I wanted to double-check with you, though. How has the Digital Vaccine Certificate Program been going that you launched?

I know when the Diamond Princess cruise happened, cell phone location was used to trace people. Is that still used, transept the news and other major outbreaks? How does that work?

That makes sense. Is the same thing go for the app, the Social Distancing app?

I like studying how everything is connected and is important. What ethical considerations do you all think about when responding to these issues like contact tracing? If a lot of personal information going over to the government, how do you make sure that wasn’t misused?

Oh, I feel stupid now for asking.

Then, 1922, what is the relationship with the CECC?

You didn’t have to do that much. To summarize, then, for the vaccine rollout and the process of also doing priority groups, it seemed like, initially, that was very government-led. Then, as there are more and more vaccines, it became more of a local government issue. Is that fair to ...

That makes sense. It was already in place?

That’s how people were being tracked if they’re high risk and that’s still going right now. I’m not a tech person, but I’m guessing this is something to do with big data. How you’re managing this level of information coming in? How has that worked?

Trade-Van, OK. Cool. I’ll make sure to include that. I didn’t realize it was for transportation. That’s very interesting. I understand that another big thing or successful tech thing was the use of adding flight information to three-NHI system.

Interesting. I didn’t realize…for that sorry. The QR code company I think I didn’t hear quite clearly. What was the name?

The private sector, would that be the phone companies?

That’s interesting. One question that the editor had was, was the private sector involved in any of your COVID solutions?

OK, that’s interesting. You brought these ideas to the cabinet. That’s really interesting and they were like, “OK, all right.” I understand g0v has worked with the government before on other projects. I was reading about that on their website. They would trust them.

They right away jumped on it. Is that fair to say?

Were you all meeting together, and they delegated something to you, which you then went and talked to g0v about or whoever’s on your team. What does that look like?

Then, can I ask how centralized it was, just for yourself digital minister. When a lot of these decisions you’re making or being made, I’m guessing, say, early 2020, when they started coming out, what does that process look like in government?

That was one of your big concerns, or when you were designing…When you’re working on a lot of these, was just that it would be easy to explain, or were there any other factors that you were considering?

Appropriate Technology, OK.

Yeah, it is. Accessible is the better word.

The thesis of my articles seems to be emerging is that Taiwan has used a lot of…I don’t want to call it too severe to be derogatory, but easy like low-tech solutions or bridging existing tech on purpose to make it more accessible.

Interesting. Thank you. That was helpful. You might have seen I asked them some questions about how they helped out, and that was a big, big QR thing for them. They had a few other projects, which you seem to have taken into consideration.

Are they mostly programmers or how would you describe the members because we always have to summarize?

How often they work with the government.

My first question is, we talked about this last time, but I don’t quite understand what is your relationship with g0v and their relationship with the Taiwan government. I know they made a lot of suggestions that were important, but I was wondering what that process looked like.

Just to give you a run through, this article is focusing on the tech behind COVID, which is why I want to talk to you.

All right, thank you so much for your time.

OK, thank you.

I think that is all for now. I have to edit this down for clarity.

I was just asking because you’re so well-known, so the continuity issue…

Let’s say, when you leave office, for example, next election, the KMT one, would your office continue its operations or is it just a specific initiative of DPP government?

All the other things that you’ve done this year.

Is there anything new that we can expect coming up or anything new that you’re ready to roll out?

OK.We’re running out of time. Could you tell me, how has your portfolio changed a lot since you started? You talked about how your responsibilities have evolved.

You have seen less misinformation as compared to Facebook?

Do you see any similar thing on Dcard? Do you think that will have the same dynamic in Taiwan?

You brought up PTT. I just wanted to ask you, did you notice any differences of how information is shared on PTT than with Dcard, Facebook and others? Do you see any big differences in how people are talking about things?

Misinformation campaigns.

Since taking your position, how have you seen the misinformation?

In the spring, I remember, that’s when I first contacted your office, there had been a recorded spike in disinformation. I think that was around the time that COVID got out. Has that continued or has that gone down at all?

So, Taiwan’s transparency evolved?

I wanted to ask you more about misinformation, but one big question first. Did you notice any spike in misinformation during the recent flights over Taiwan or near Taiwan from China?

Where do you think that rumor came from? Was it from inside Taiwan or was it from outside Taiwan?

Yes. You said “outrage,” are you seeing anything specific in Taiwan? Or are you just talking about?

When you work, like your example, what topics are people talking about in Taiwan?

OK, that’s really interesting. I didn’t consider that. Has COVID been your greatest challenge? Can you talk about your hardest project taking off?

I asked do you prefer not to use apps or do you have concerns with app-based government system?