I’d like to thank the panelists again for giving their valuable and very precious insights and information.

Thank you, panelists, for those beautiful thoughts. Thank you. Thank you so much. We’ll keep the discussion going on these topics through the rest of the semester, so please be on the lookout for events from the Technology and Innovation Student Association.

Thank you. I know the audience has a lot more questions lined up on Slido. Unfortunately, we are running out of time. Are there any closing thoughts that I can invite Minister Tang and Professor Wing to share? Then, we close the session.

The next couple of questions are related so I’ll ask them together. The first question is, "Should governments develop and train algorithms using citizen-generated data?" An extension of that question is, "How would federal systems then respect the fundamentals and laws of data security and privacy?"

Another related question is, "Can you give examples about open government with current technologies? Does it create a new form of democracy?"

Thank you. The next question from the audience is, "How do private and public sectors apply blockchain technologies to achieve the SDGs, and are there any examples in projects?"

And how behaving in certain ways...

...overthrow dictatorships, and how...

What role can...

There was a related question down the thread, which can be a flip-side question, "What role can social media and artificial intelligence play to improve democracy or overthrow dictatorships, and how significant is that role?"

Thank you. Going back to the topic of innovation and of course, sustainable development, the question from the audience is, "What role can the government play in regulation of artificial intelligence?"

The question is, "As the first transgender minister in the world, what’s your message for LGBT students interested in serving the public sector?"

The next question that we have from the audience is directed for Minister Tang, but if you want, we can address that later and keep going with the flow of the conversation.

The next question we have from the audience is, what is your number one worry for the next 10 years and for the next 50? Then a related question down the line is what is the next big thing or move in tech?

We have some audience questions coming in. Shall we go into talking about those? OK. The first question that everyone wants addressed first is, "Most discussion of data for good is about curbing abuses of commercial tech, but what is an affirmative example of using data for policy design?"

What are the promises of technology for development? Broadly, what are some of the technology trends that you’ve seen in your careers or new areas that you’re seeing now that could play an increasingly greater role in our sustainable development?

The frontier technologies hold promise to end poverty for good. They enable sustainable patterns for growth and achieve peace and prosperity. I want to ask, how can technology be redirected towards inclusive and sustainable outcomes?

Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, to name just a few, have opened possibilities to improve quality of life for people everywhere. It is possible to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals if the technology is implemented properly.

Let me start off the discussion and please feel free to post your questions at any time starting now. Minister Tang and Professor Wing, I’m thinking we’re living in a time of unprecedented technological change in terms of phase, scope, and depth.

To kick off the panel, can I first invite our guest to join us here. Minister Tang and Professor Wing, we are so happy to have you here. Can I just ask to ask that you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, your work, your interest in ...

We are privileged to have here today Ambassador Lily Hsu of TECO and distinguished congresswomen from Taiwan.

I’ll also take this opportunity to thank the co-sponsors for this event, the MPA in Development Practice program and the Taiwan Focus for their kind cooperation and support in bringing this event together. I’d especially like to thank the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.

You’ll be able to upvote the questions that you want the speakers to address first, so we can address the burning questions first that are supported by majority of people. Depending on the time, we’ll address the remaining ones.

You’ll be able to join the conversation and post questions to the panelists. During the course of the panel, if you have questions that you’d like for the panelists to address, please go ahead and post them and you’ll see what others have posted.

We’re really delighted to have you here with us today. Before we begin, I’d like to mention that we’ll be using Slido for audience interaction with the panelists. If you have your smartphones and/or your laptops, you can go to slido.com and enter the event code #920. Nine, two, zero.

Professor Wing has served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research and has overseen a global network of research labs. Jeannette’s seminal essay, titled "Computational Thinking" was published a decade ago and is credited with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to problem-solving in fields where previously, it ...

...by the age of 19, Audrey had held various positions in software companies, and she had worked in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur. Before joining the Taiwanese cabinet two years ago, she served on the National Development Council’s open data committee and on the K-12 curriculum committee, which introduced media ...

Audrey is a free software programmer, and has been described as one of the 10 greats of Taiwanese computing in the private sector...

We are very privileged to have here today our distinguished guest for the panel, Minister Audrey Tang, Digital Minister for Taiwan, and Professor Jeannette Wing, the Avanessians Director of the Data Sciences Institute and a Professor of computer science at Columbia University.