Why am I here today is because I want to seek your help to promote this idea so that we can find a sponsor who will embrace this idea so that people in Taiwan can get free access to our open data and create a product which can be potentially ...

Now, here’s a catch. There’s something wrong with this picture because I’m saying I want to provide for free. Somebody has to sponsor this.

The community in Taiwan, which I define it, like entrepreneurship, and all these people, and maybe you, can get access to our data of satellite imagery of Taiwan so that they can focus on creating box.

Exactly. I think you’re thinking hard. I came up with this idea called AxelTaiwan. This shows the entirety. It is a true open data concept where people in Taiwan can get access to the satellite imagery data of Taiwan through open data API for free.

Exactly.

We want to try to deliver as much as possible to people, but there’s a problem because our project is very expensive, so we end up having to charge the people a fair amount in order for us to sustain. We are a private company.

Now, what I mean by this is we believe that satellite data has influential power to bring clarity and change people’s cognitive perspective on how we view our planet. It’s the overview effect.

Why am I here? Very, very simple reason. I have this radical idea called AxelTaiwan and let me explain what it is. Axel Taiwan is an idea to create open data for all Taiwan.

…with the mission to bring space within everyone’s reach. Last week, we successfully launched our new satellite into orbit. It’s a 100 kilogram size and this is actually a clean room we’re very proud of, and we take images of the planet.

…Yes. What changed is that now we have four strong leadership including myself and most almost 90 people. When I came to you, it was probably around 30 to 40 people, very small compared to now. Now, we have almost 90 people from almost 30 different countries all gathered in ...

We decided, OK, we’ll just do it because no one else was doing it. We decided to start a company to make microsatellites and using microsatellites to visualize the planet on a daily basis, so we can read clarity on what’s going on here. I showed you…

At that time, almost 13 years ago. It was not available for most people. It was the elite’s technology. You need to be a scientist or from the specific meaning. We thought that’s wrong because space technology can bring a lot of things, positive things for our society.

Thank you. I’m from Axelspace. Axelspace is based in Tokyo. We established our company out of Tokyo University lab back in 2008. Why? Because we felt the space technology should be available for more people.

Meet you.