 Dear participants of the Civic Tech Conference 2020, I'm Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister. It is a pleasure for me to share with you on the occasion of this conference some thoughts around digital social innovation. From my point of view, Switzerland is a very unique actor in the field of Civic Tech, with a very long history of democratic institutions. Indeed, since the very foundation of the modern national state, people have defined common polities together. So in the next few minutes, I would like to show you a part of our Taiwan model of pandemic prevention, where a very similar spirit of direct participation have enabled Civic Technologists to become civil engineers of the digital age. I wish you a wonderful conference with lots of new insights, and I am convinced that all of you can contribute to a bright future for digital participation.