Thank you. Have a good night. Bye.

I think I’m all good for now.

Sounds great.

Once I’ve done more research on these topics, can I email you back, or should I go to a different…?

I really appreciate your time and getting on Skype so quickly.

I definitely want to make it work, so ideally, I can still do this over August and then beyond. It was just hard to actually turn down an internship.

OK, cool.

I think I’d like to take the next week or two researching and flesh out a more detailed research plan, and check in with Professor Eaves and see if he thinks this is an appropriate way to move forward with. I think he would like to turn this into a ...

Over August, I’m definitely open, and ideally, would go to your office five days a week, if that’s something that…

Perfect. Then that works better, then, because ideally, I would be able to still conduct the research and potentially the thesis project/consultancy part over the fall semester and early spring, too.

I hope to spend as much time onsite as possible. Since I’m trying to split my summer into an internship with the US government and also research with you, I think I would end up having to do this just over August onsite, and then…

OK, great. I figured.

Perfect, thank you. I think I have a lot of research next steps to look at. I have a few more logistics questions if that’s OK. What has been the standard model you worked with the researchers, if there is a standard model?

That makes a lot of sense. That would definitely be really cool to be able to get the data and the statistics on the users who are using the platform, or generally using the open government initiative.

Then trying to see if you can spread the initiative to a broader audience, rather than just a relatively smaller, online-active audience?

Perfect. Yeah, definitely, that would be great to connect with the other researchers. I have a question. Do you guys do some sort of analysis on the type of users that are actively engaged with you, either online – probably, mostly online – and also going to the offline events?

I wonder if it would be possible to do that.

I started thinking, I wonder if it would be too large of an endeavor to try to do my research on the broader effort and planning, and then the specific pieces of it, instead of trying to focus on just one part. I do think that they all go together, ...

I see, yeah. Sounds like the time I will be Taiwan definitely coincides with really cool, exciting, much opportunities.

In addition to these, do you guys also have initiatives in terms of working with the other ministries in the government on compiling the data they have and integrating the data in some form, then use it to funnel to the open government and open data initiative? Is that also ...

I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about your focus, because I want to make sure that whatever I’m researching is actually one of the top priorities for you guys, so that it’s beneficial for the both of us.

In terms of topic, I’ve been doing a lot of research on the portfolio of work you guys do. I’m interested in the intersection of technology and government broadly. Really, that can mean open government or general participatory government-style work that you guys promote. I’m also interested in the disinformation ...

Around I think February or March 2021 is when we need to start be able to finalize and deliver the final product back to the client, which ideally would be you guys.

My thought process in the last couple days is that, if I can start with the research part, and in the process, identify something that I could potentially work on and then work on that throughout the fall and spring semesters.

[laughs] I’m not sure what problem I can find within your operations, but I…

The thing with my program is that our thesis can’t be just research-based, because our degree is more like a professional degree. It has to be policy-focused, research certainly can and should be a component, but the idea is that we work with a client to identify some sort of ...

I’ve spent the past couple days thinking really hard about it. I would like to turn the research in the summer into a thesis.

“…that was on the table,” yeah. I told him it would be incredible if I could. He said, “Well, I’m just going to reach out and see what happens.” Here we are.

I went to Eaves for advice on whether I should take it. He gave me some of his perspectives, and then he saw on my resume that I was from Taiwan. He was like, “Oh, why don’t you work in Taiwan with Audrey?” I was like, “I didn’t know that ...

This research with you really just came about as of Tuesday. As you might know, I was in the process of looking for a summer internship. I had an offer here on working with the US government.

To be honest, my research thesis is still in the works. We don’t really have to decide until the fall this semester this year for me.