 Hi everyone, really happy to be here and it seems that we're now having some conversations with this projection technology, which may or may not work. So I'm Audrey Tang, talent's digital ministry in charge of social innovation. I'm really happy to be here and share with you some thoughts around social innovation and especially participatory civil IOT as we call it. What you're interested in the materials, all the materials are CI.PAIWA in CI.Taiwan at GOV.TW. It seems that it's stuck for some reason. Can we switch to HDMI or something? Anyway, here I go. So that's the website and as you can see we have put all the relevant information related to the CI project, the civil IOT project into this unified website address. And we do this not just for the civil IOT but also for AI Taiwan, for SI Taiwan, which is social innovation, and also for smart Taiwan and also for bio Taiwan and so on. And this shows a very different approach of policymaking context because it is not just the central administration or the municipalities. This is not just about one ministry or some other agency. This is a single website that outlines all the efforts including the municipalities and the various ministries involved and everybody can update their latest development on this bulletin board and for everybody to share. And so I'll be mostly explaining the policymaking approach, the collaborative policymaking approach that we have done in the past couple of years leading to the civil IOT Taiwan project which is a shared evidence-based platform for everybody to contribute. Mostly it's for areas and the municipal agencies have already shared brilliantly about how this enables an open API-based connection for everybody who are working in the front lines who want to have an edit lines report of where exactly is the way they're going, how the roads has been broken, and what kind of ideas or information are on the few reports there are. These are all aggregated in this corner. But in the background there's also ongoing efforts to collect air information, to collect water quality information, as well as earthquake prevention data. And all of this is aggregated into the National High Speed Computing Center using a cloud infrastructure that allows for people to contribute their insights and the resources that they have to the same platform. But my main topic for this talk is not exactly the features now which will only increase and you can check it all out on the CI website anyway, but on how those ideas can be and how we incorporated the civil society and the social sector's innovations using drones, using blockchain, using the cutting-edge technologies. Frankly speaking, the administration is maybe only a late adopter and waiting for the civil society to surface their ideas and can only be done in a way if it's fast and if we make the civil society feel that they are welcome to share their latest ideas in both the civil IoT, the disaster recovery, and also in the substantive data sharing. And so this is literally my office. This is near the Chamber of Commerce, near the Central Diamond Park in Taipei. It's called the Social Innovation Lab. It used to be a Taiwan Air Force base, but it's converted into this playground-ish office and it's co-created by hundreds of social innovators. And this particular soccer field is drawn by people with Down syndrome. It turns out that they're brilliant artists who see the world through a different lens. And so it conveys this atmosphere that everybody is able to contribute. Now, there are people working on various cutting-edge technology there and we provide the sandbox in which that they can share their latest innovations and think of use of public good along with other people. For example, a few months ago, there was some self-driving tricycles here and they just lived with people and interacted with people and they drive kind of slowly so it doesn't hurt anyone if they crash into anything. But it gets people accustomed with the idea of what we call open innovation because these creatures from the MIT down lab, they're not just open stores but open hardware so anyone who know anything about programming or electric engineering can change the mood light into a face or something like that to show how they're feeling toward our world. But also the data is released as open data so we can collectively form a new norm to interact with these creatures in the peaceful times. Like during strolling through the temple flower market, many people attending the hackathon thought of it as a way of helping you carry the pots of orchids or whatever as you stroll past the temple flower market and by the end you can hop on it and it can drive you home. But in times of disaster, in times of fire, in times of various other ways, they can be instantly repurposed and reused as ways to do scouting, as ways to distribute goods in a way that doesn't harm the people on the ground. And so all those innovations are there for people to add upon so they don't have to control or in other ways colonize the technology if they rather open up the technology for everybody to see. And so this space, our Air Force space, perhaps fittingly, became one of the premier training ground for drone operators for unmanned vehicles to test various interactions and possible drills that they have around maybe an explosion accident or maybe an earthquake and things like that and using good carrying drones. People here just rehearsed various ways of unmanned vehicles in a way that shows the people how exactly that works in a simulated fashion. And so more incidents about the Apple TV. This is totally not an advertisement by Apple even though I did work with Apple for six years before joining the cabinet. Anyway, yeah, seems it's working again. Can we switch to HDMI please? Just a second while we switch to more reliable technology. One of the wireless engineers I know prefers wired connection because there is something more reliable. You know what, let's just forget about these slides. It's obviously not working. So I'm going to spare you the rest of the visuals and just talk about some basic principles. So the idea of regulatory co-creation or the sandbox underlies the formation of the Civil IoT project. The sandbox system which is installed in sandbox.org.tw is our main way of engaging with the civil society when they think of a new drone or a new invention that is once countered to the current regulation or the current law system. And on sandbox.org.tw you can see many applications, people who come up with innovations to solve interesting public issues that are currently held back by laws or regulations. Oh, here we go, it's working. Oh yeah, alright. So then simply by declaring that this invention is currently breaking some regulations or some laws, it could be around AI, it could be around unmanned vehicles, it could be using a part of 5G or experimental broadband that is currently not allowed for industry or commercial use. Anything can be challenged on sandbox.org.tw and there's hundreds of cases where the government, the central administration responds to the real needs of the municipalities who really want to relax some of the existing regulations that can be done in a way that shows everybody that this is actually safe and it actually increases the common good. And so the sandbox.org.tw is the front end to all applications, but in the back end we have various different ministries in charge of various regulations and they are designed to be broken. So, for example, the platform economy and financial technology are the NDC, the National Development Council, and the Ministry of Finance respectively. And now before the end of this year we're working with legislation to pass the sandbox of the unmanned vehicles or UVs. And I like in every other country where the Ministry of Transportation or Communication takes care of those unmanned vehicles. Here in Taiwan the Ministry of Economy takes these ideas of unmanned vehicles. So because of that we don't distinguish between drones and automated vehicles that are on the road or in the sea. You can have hybrid vehicles that drive and then vertically take off or ships that convert into a bus that are self-driving applying to the sandboxes. And we are already receiving a lot of interest from the new Taipei City, Taijong and Gaocheng City about deploying these innovative vehicles in a way that serves the public good and especially around disaster recovery. And the way it works is that anyone can apply to break a law or a regulation that is owned by the ministry or challenge any regulation from any other ministry by submitting a proposal and after a multi-stakeholder conversation if it is potentially to the public good then they are given one year to experiment and to show people how it works in the real world and not as a programming. So anyway, here we go. So the idea here is that everybody gets a year after the initial proposal period to operate under a law or regulation through the innovators' liking and with the blessing of the municipal support. And after a year of testing if it's not a good idea then we thank the investors for paying the tuition for everyone. In exchange we get a data sharing and a risk assessment so that the new innovators can try a different angle. But if this is deemed a good idea by the civil society or by the citizens then they are given maybe one extra idea to test on another municipal area or expand their testing range or speed. And up to two years of testing will result in the final verdict of whether we incorporate this innovation in the civil IoT or other support system or not. If this is blessed by the people saying this really is a good idea then all the regulations that the challenges must be readjusted to the version of the innovators' rights the new regulation. Of course if this is a law challenge if this is a law change then the legislators in the parliament need to have a substantial discussion which can last up to four years. But during those four years the innovator essentially gets a monopoly by allowing them to continue the innovation including the business model under the new version of the law to their liking during the sandbox. And once the legislators are okay with this new spectrum, with this new field with this new kind of eco and new kind of use and things like that of course competitors enter the field and we then successfully incorporate regulations with innovators. Now the key to make this work and if you are interested in taking this back to your country to make this work the key to this is the regional innovation system because people cannot if they cannot see those creatures or these new inventions in action then people cannot make sense of what exactly how it looks like. And so every Wednesday from 10 am to 10 pm I'm in the social innovation lab for everybody to meet me in my office hour to have a substantial discussion even a demonstration of their technologies that I then record and publish a transcript for everybody including the municipalities and investors and whoever else to see and then every other Tuesday or so I also tour around Taiwan to all the different potential counties or cities or municipalities that are willing to experiment with those cutting-edge technologies that are willing to make full use of the open data API we offer on the civil IoT platform and meet with the social innovators I think the left one is Hualien and when I do that people can dial in from say Taidong or any other corner and they meet together in a kind of conference room to actually see those innovations in action and always the 12 ministries related to social innovation are invited to the social innovation lab in a kind of large room they connect through projectors and see those local social innovators through my eyes so it's just me who travels but 12 different ministries are in the social innovation lab where we have some like good drink and good food we have a resident chef at 11 p.m. every day so it creates a kind of ideation atmosphere, a fun atmosphere for people to collaborate and they know that the ministry will always absorb any risk if they propose something innovative and risky and it goes wrong it's on my fault but if there is some good ideas and is to everybody's credit because all the transcript is published online and in this environment maybe to one bureau or another or to one ministry or the other it's very potentially likely for the public service to say but I need to consult with some other ministry and then they will send another text and then another text and then throughout all those documents not only is the time takes that is longer than the innovators expected but also contextual information that you lost during the transmission but 12 ministries into the same room literally and the people they want to consult are sitting next to them literally it's very difficult to delay or postpone the ideation process so whenever anyone from the local such innovation says but now we need automated vehicles to help agriculture delivery transportation disaster recovery then all the relevant ministries are there and they just poke around themselves and very quickly the answer which we require at most two weeks after each regional innovation meeting so that I think is the trick of making this work and that then adds back to the collective evidence gathering that is the civil IOT system and finally I would like to show you a picture which is part of the civil IOT system also this is the air box which is people around Taiwan donating their school or whatever and purchase those very cheap less than 100 US dollars sensors that detects air quality and as you can see by now more than 2,000 points in Taiwan and they all donate these numbers back to the government to the national high computing center but of course people if they have participated in such citizen science before it actually challenges the legitimacy of our environmental protection agency so this is kind of rare in Asia because many Asian countries will see this as a threat to legitimacy but in Taiwan when we see efforts like this we decide we cannot beat them so we join them and so what we do in a central administration is using partnering with people who own for example blockchain technology to take a snapshot of those numbers before they are stored on our national high-speed computing center so that people can know we will not change the day before the election so they feel much more confident in contributing such information and second we punt in with the research institute to make the measurement devices more precise while keeping them as inexpensive as before and finally as you can see this is maybe a map of Taiwan's digital divide so the environmental protection agency set up measurement devices in places where there's less citizen scientists our latest plan is to set up an air box here which is in the middle of the Taiwan Strait I think no citizen scientists will build air but because of offshore wind turbines we actually have something that generates electricity in that point and can report whether the air pollution comes from outside of Taiwan or is domestic in nature so in conclusion I think this kind of open innovation of using sandbox to collect people's ideas and sharing data innovation with the whole world in a way that anyone anywhere in the world can just download it from github to put those self-driving vehicles together to join the civil IOT data gathering platform I think this is one of Taiwan's main offer to the world by solving not only our domestic social environmental issues but documenting precisely how and why of we're doing this through the regional innovation system and also sharing through the sensor things API and other international standards with people who are like-minded around the world and who can all join Taiwan in bettering the environment and the society so thank you very much for listening