Thank you.

We do know that that secure and trusted interoperability enhances your overall security most often. How do you balance all of the different objectives including public policy making? Taiwan’s very good at thinking about this. We’d certainly like to continue to stay engaged and aware of where you’re at, and… ...

Fantastic. We would certainly like to continue the conversation, and be useful in that regard, and share perspectives on what are responsible regulatory practices that work, that balance all the various, different interests, including…

Yes.

Some jurisdictions are looking very much at very, very, very protection heavy — which is understandable —. It should be a driver for all of us. How can we also make sure that it’s enabling for business, and trade is important.

The trade and innovation can still contribute so much to improve livelihoods and well being. It would be great to be working with you on how to ensure that’s in the mix, too.

Some jurisdictions are developing models, but some of those jurisdictions may not have the digital champions that Taiwan has. They’re not thinking about it from a business, entrepreneurship, enablement, innovation, trading perspective.

As you are thinking about privacy regulations, and some of these very important work on digital trust markers, and other sorts of identification work, we’d be keen to maintain the conversation about how you strike the balance between enablement and protection and security.

This is the sort of work that… When I say Taiwan has been so thoughtful about public policy making, this is it.

Think about money laundering and criminal syndicates detection and other sorts of things that you need instant time sensitive ability to transfer data if you want to tackle that seriously. That’s my old job, so I think about these things a lot. We’ve got to think about ways to do ...

If you are a small business in Taiwan, and this is a trading place, entrepreneurship is in the bloodstream here. How can you navigate that? The compliance costs and administrative complexity are huge, so you need to think about ways to resolve that. Cross border data flows are also crucial ...

We are interested in how we can be supportive around CBPR and these other things because, in APEC for example. There is a Digital Policy alert which shows some 1,700 regulations or amendments to regulations on data across the region since January, 2020. That’s hard enough for Google to navigate, ...

We’ve been certified under CBPR, Global CBPR. We are also doing things to help others, small businesses certify under CBPR in the US. There might be some opportunities there for example to consider whether the pilot we are doing in the US is applicable here. Then on the products and ...

We have had to think about two-factor authentication and secure by design. If I go through the three different parts, in terms of the rules of the road first. Let me give you and example on cross border data flows, how can you do those securely? How can you do ...

We’re very happy to continue to speak to your teams and to share different models on critical infrastructure in cybersecurity, policy frameworks elsewhere, and how our products and services can help meet some of the goals because we think about zero day events and resilience.

Cybersecurity has got three broad component parts. One is the rules and laws and regulations, then you’ve got the products and services that you use, and then you’ve got the people in the system. All three are crucial.

Yes, it’s important that the initiative is one that they endorse, and they think is valuable for them. It’s not the only purpose, but it’s a very important purpose, because we also want it to be good for Taiwan and for readers and consumers of news in Taiwan.

Great.

We will, yes.

We’re very excited, and also I think we will be listening and learning from them as we go along. I think that’s what’s exciting about this initiative.

Yes, please.

Yes. In these areas and as you go along in your important work, where you find things where you think that we can improve or do better, please do talk to us about what the local feedback is that you are receiving that can help us improve our efforts because ...

We’re very appreciative of our partnerships in order to make these things possible, so important for our business, but it is more important than just our business.

Thank you because Anita had reminded me to thank you very much for your partnership. I do think you talk about the data centers, we’re very grateful that we’ve been able to establish data centers here. Taiwan has an important role, not just for Taiwan, with their data centers, serve ...

Google for Taiwan.

Thank you, very much.

Thank you.

Also, it gives Taiwan the flexibility to think about those things.

I’m excited to see where we land and what we learn from this, I think it’s exciting. Personally, I think that this is the sort of model we should be thinking about more generally because it does enable you to think about what other actual problems we’re trying to solve ...

You’ve got a real diversity of interests here that we’ve listened to over the course of the last year. This model allows an independent entity to think about how to allocate effectively what those interests think would work well to help them digitize, transform, and develop quality news in a ...

Australia’s got a different news publishing industry than Taiwan. You look at media industry regulation in Australia, that’s been about concentration, well before the digital age, and also subscriptions are significant and digital enablement has been different spread across Australia. In Taiwan government and publisher’s case they are telling us ...

I think it’s actually very different, uniquely tailored to trying to solve the capability gaps or opportunities for Taiwan publishers, and able to evolve. I think it’s quite a different model and quite a thoughtful model. It’s a unique one, and very much tailored to Taiwan’s unique circumstances.

How effective are those various initiatives? As we learn which of the initiatives the DTA and publishers action, we will be able to see, together as part of the public private partnerships and cross industry stakeholders, what the impact is and what works effectively.

We’re dedicating 300 million Taiwan dollars to a fund that will be administered, not by us, not by us, but by a third party, to assess and administer particular asks from publishers based on the guidelines set by the DTA. In fact, in many ways, we’ll be seeing as the ...

You want to think about how can local news providers in Taiwan digitize, deal with digital transformation, develop the quality news that resonates and lands well. What are the kinds of capabilities that you need? How can we create a sustainable news industry equipped with the skills and capabilities for ...

In Taiwan we are already engaged across the industry. What is unique about this is that together with news publishers here, community stakeholders, the government, and us, we’ve embarked on a year and a half long of consultations to say, “What do you actually think you need in the news ...

It’s a slightly different model, and the Treasury Department ultimately decides whether an entity is designated under the code. The idea is that the encouragement to engage in partnerships discussions with certain publishers.

We’re happy to come back to you, and share what are the different models globally if you like because some of the proposals are different. The Australian news code, which has been introduced, involves a review every year about whether you’re designated under the code.

I’m also on the APEC Business Advisory Council, one of the Australian members, there’s three Taiwan members, and we’re working on an AI summit in the digital working group in August as part of this APEC year to think about what are the principles that should be foundational as we ...

We’re very excited about the news fund launch. We’re excited that Taiwan is the place that thinks very much about good public policy. It’s no surprise, therefore, that this is a brand new approach to this challenging question. We will learn some things from it and get better.

The reason I mentioned that is just to underline that deep commitment that we’re pleased when we see these sorts of reports because we know that we’re doing something that is meaningful here, and we do want to listen and hear about how we can be more useful in that ...

I’m sure Anita and the team has told you all our fabulous commitments to Taiwan, but our economic impact report just in terms of the infrastructure commitment here through data centers and subsea cables has been modeled to demonstrate that it’s helping generate 82,000 jobs in Taiwan, $29 billion worth ...

That’s our hope. We’ve got the news fund announcement. We’re very pleased with all the partnerships that we have with you. We want to do more. We released our economic impact report.

Then news launch fund is just one of those areas, but it is an important part. We do need to combine that with the important work that I know we’re working with you on disinformation, fact checking, and literacy. We know that these things have got to go hand in ...

If there are ways that we can do more with you on content creation here, including in local language, and thinking culturally about content creation, that’s an important area that we can do more in.

How can we do more of bringing Taiwanese voices in all its diversity because there’s an extraordinary amount of diversity here…Youtube for example has a mission to give everyone a voice and show them the world, how can we ensure we are bringing Taiwan’s extraordinary contribution here. We want to ...

I know. It’s so exciting to talk to you. One of the things that I did want to think about, and this combines also we’re thinking about news as well, Deputy Minister Lee. YouTube and digital platforms have meant that people that the world hadn’t heard from before have got ...

That we can do a lot with and use it to help us address some of the digital divide, too.

AI and machine learning will help us improve on some of exactly these sorts of…That’s a good potential…

I look after India and Philippines. We’ve added a number of languages to Google Translate, and you see some of the stories about what that’s enabled. It’s exactly why you get so excited being somebody like me working in a company like Google because you can see how transformational it ...