It changes their goal. Their motivation and your goals are more closely aligned when they’re part of the government, not a contractor.

Right. For a big push, for something like a Smart Government push, I was wondering do you see it making sense to bring more Web development in Taiwan for government department websites out of the hands of contractors and into something like an 18F or another internal start-up staffed with ...

...Also, I care about the audience, the American people. I also know that if you have a big project, and it’s not being managed well, and maybe you’re not the manager, it can be a bear to keep working on it.

Right. In order to do that, they needed to take...I was a contractor. Obviously, I try to do a good job. I think it’s important to. I don’t want to have to go in front of Congress to explain why the security for the Department of Education is a...

Right. 18F came out of that, and they started to build...

Part of those needs is website development. How do we build websites for the government that do what the customers need, at a decent, competitive price, but are also effective? One of the websites that came out of the GSA is the Obamacare website. There were two versions.

In America, we have a government department called the GSA, General Services Administration. A lot of standard SOP things are given to them by other departments to handle, a lot of stuff like handling facilities, maintenance, or issuing ID cards. Everything that all government departments need would be part of ...

What I wanted to talk about is there’s several different government departments that were more relevant during the Obama administration. I’ve been here for about four and a half years. It’s been a while since I’ve been there.

I’m a babe in the woods. I’m not sure what’s in the document. I’m interested to talk about what I knew about American government website development and talk with you as well about the bilingual initiative.

Apologies, I haven’t seen the slides yet. After this, I’ll go back and take a look.

I should be looking at the Chinese-language documents and not the English-language documents.

I wanted to discuss with you what I learned as I was a contractor. I know that the Taiwanese government has a Smart Government, phase five right now from 2017.

As a contractor, I worked for the Department of Education, the Smithsonian museum. I saw, as I was working there, that the development infrastructure for government websites was changing. I know you’ve been to DC, and I don’t know if you talked to anybody about 18F or the GSA, Global ...

What I wanted to ask you about today is I’m interested in the NDC’s, some of their initiatives, the National Development Council. Me being a software developer from Washington, DC, most of my work back home has been in government website development.

Thank you very much, by the way. It’s an interesting logo. I like it.

I did print out the email I sent you today. I don’t know if you took a look. I don’t know if you have security concerns about PDFs.

"How much money do I have to spend? I met this guy, and he seems talented. I’d like to work with him, but what’s the..." I’m very fortunate that my employer took a chance and said, "Oh, it looks like you have some experience and I’d like to work with ...

That’s the long and the short of what All Hands is doing. We’re trying to be a networking platform to help international talent and Taiwanese companies understand each other more. I think it can be even hard if a company here in Taiwan wants to hire a foreigner. What’s the ...

Thank you very much. We’ve had a few events so far, six, I believe. Most of our events average about 50 to 100 people. We’ve had events about getting hired. We’re having an event on green jobs. We’ve done events with headhunters, telling us what your resume should look like ...

Yeah. That’s still being developed. It’s on the shelves in stores here in Taiwan. I’m also a member of a, partner of this group. It’s called All Hands Taiwan.

More like the cloud services and then training for their firmware employees who are developing for the cloud. We provide the cloud service. We’ve also done some things, a smart diaper, checking for humidity and temperature in a baby’s diaper to alert the parents. It’s a funny product for parents, ...

Thank you very much for meeting me, Minister Tang. My name is Sean Wilson, give you my business card. Thank you. I’m the R&D manager of a Taiwanese start-up. We have some products, a LINE chatbot that connects to a stock advice website, for the Taiwanese market. We also have ...

Sure.