Please.
Yeah, this is so cool.
It’s really bad. It’s falling apart.
Because the US really needs different software. The hardware’s OK, people are still good, but you have to reload the software.
We want to export software.
California.
This is so good. Those are all my questions related to autonomy, navigating how to connect US and Taiwan. Do you have any other things that are on your mind about that?
Yes. How should we think of, say, academia or hospitals? NTU, either as a hospital or as a university, versus Sinica? How does the government look at these in terms of public health?
That’s great. The new dean, Michael Lu is his name. He’s Taiwanese. The School of Public Health. There’s such roots between Berkeley and…
The US right now is riots and rockets. It’s complete chaos. We’re trying to export some of the good stuff that Taiwan did over there.
Perfect, because so many people are looking to the public health people to figure out how to open things up, but then the public health people are like, “We don’t have the data to open it up.”
We do now, yes. She would be good to help navigate this one?
She’ll know?
How would you go about doing that?
Academia Sinica, right?
If we wanted to connect US and Taiwan…we can be even more specific. Let’s say Berkeley and…
This is awesome. This is really, really good.
Focus on the prevention, right?
Really?
Which means we can collaborate with them, right?
Do they ever give government contracts to private companies?
Who are they under?
HPA?
Who does the prevention?
Intervention and prevention?
HPA, Health Prevention.
Would they also cover public health? Is that under the same umbrella?
They’re connecting us, and we’re trying to figure out how do we build, let’s call it, next-generation public health infrastructure. What I’m curious of is does Taiwan have any of that kind of thing?
We want to build open infrastructure. That’s how we see what we’re doing. With UC Berkeley they’re connecting us now to…Public health offices in the US is county-based.
Yes. That would be an investment. What I would also like, how can I find if are there government projects that need infrastructure?
We’re in the final stages of the process. Our application was accepted.
I brought my notes. The other thing is the NDF has an angel fund. They have three different funds.
I love this.
That’s what we’re trying to do.
That’s amazing.
Who else is in this club? You have…
[laughs] Good.
That’s why they reached out, then? I’m meeting with them next week.
That’s the purpose of it, right?
I would be curious, is there any institutions that you felt we could talk to?
What Dr. Ho was showing us was all of this data that CDC is releasing, but they’re mainly releasing it as PDFs. She’s like, “If you just put this into an app and it became location based…”
In my mind I’ve been crazy inspired by SpaceX and NASA, how you have private and public together. It’s so inspiring.
What I would love your help on is, first, to know are there any institutions that you feel in Taiwan – and we can think about this very creatively. It doesn’t need to be CDC, for example – that we can partner to work on this neighborhood public health.
The one thing that we are trying to do is to nudge people through notifications, but then I don’t know. It feels like people have almost managed to crack progressive Web apps to do notifications. We’ll bring this back.
No, this is interesting. We’ll definitely look at that again.
This is interesting. I will push the team to look into that direction again.
Correct, but there’s enough still in our app that we need to be mobile. What we’re trying to do now is essentially, “I’m in this location. Can I show you places that have nutritious food, places you can exercise?”
That’s right. We’re adding more and more of those cell phone sensors – health, nutrition, location, all this kind of stuff. We have a practical problem in that Apple and Google block anybody that’s not an institution or university.
There’s three things. When we first showed you the app that we were working on you said, “Hey, maybe do it Web-based.”
