 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Cynthia Sinclair. And I'm Keisha King. In our show this time we'll take a look at our various talk shows covering business in Hawaii. Our business lineup ranges from shows on entrepreneurship, management, investments, loans, exports, computer science, software and security, law, taxation and of course, rotary. Those touch on things outside business too, just as other shows in our lineup often touch on things that do include information useful to business. Think Tech emerged out of the Building Owners and Managers Association, BOMA, back in the 1990s. That's where we started doing panel programs on business and community issues. We continued in the odd years working on the development of the technology industry and thus the diversification of Hawaii's economy. After all, we have a special blend of business in Hawaii and a business mindset all of our own. It pays to take a look at how that came about, how it's changing and what we can do to keep up. If we pay attention to these things, perhaps we'll appreciate them all the more and find ways to improve and enhance our quality of business and business life going forward. So let's take a look at some recent samples of a handful of shows that focus on business in Hawaii and you can see what we mean. There's Law Across the Sea, hosted by Mark's Club at 1pm every other Monday. However, the government helped us by paying six teachers. Okay, so the government is involved, but just for the teachers, you provide the facility, everything else. I see. And for the kids. Including building two small houses for the teachers to live on the school campus. And how many grades does this go? From first grade to sixth grade. And when they finish sixth grade, that's it. Most of them go back to farm in their village and a few will continue. And starting from 2019, 2020, we came up with the idea of opening a program called Scholarship for Children who are very good and who would like to continue to the nearest city. And we start that this coming year. And so that would be seventh grade? Seventh all the way to twelfth grade. Is it the same type of grades we have here? Yes, yes. From seventh grade all the way to twelfth grade, we will support them for six years so that they can finish the entire high school. And then obviously the ones that came back as teachers, they already did. They did. They showed us. And now do they have to go to college? They had to go to the college. It's a teacher program. I think it's like 18 or 24 months. Yeah. In high school, then they continue, I believe, in the capital city to be trained as a teacher. And then they decide what they want to do in life. Some of them remain in the city, in the capital city. Some of them go to wherever they want and then only a few that come back to the rural area. So there is a little bit of a mixed blessing here, right? Because some of them, they will leave their home and that's because of their education. Really, isn't it? I mean, they got a big advantage from the education and so they may have to leave their family in order to pursue their dreams, if you will. And we've met a number of our students who have gone on to the capital city and building a life there. How does it make you feel? Terrific. It feels good. And just as long as we are able to help, give them a chance, why not do it? And as you know, education is the future for the children of any country. Then there's Security Matters, hosted by Andrew Lanning at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays. If you reach out and you email any of us, we will send you a copy or you can just go online and Google basic safeguarding requirements for federal acquisition regulations. It's right. There's a really nice document. There's guidance there. It's free and get it and get to work on it because this is stuff you should be doing really anyway. Yeah, the biggest problem though, and I'm going to use another word of the day, as opposed to the plethora of information, there's a dearth of effort. A dearth of effort. There is a lack of responsibility being taken by the smaller businesses, and mostly because they're like five people running the whole business and they get to do all the work and then you dump this on them on the front page of their contract, they're not looking at that. Yep. Well, they will next year. Next year. Oh, we're going to get to that. Okay. They will. Oh, he almost stole my one episode. Oh, don't try it. They're my slide number two. So, outside, right, right under the FAR, we've had the D FARs compliance, the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations, which is a smaller subset of the FAR, very particular, I might say a larger subset really in some ways, it's far more prescriptive than the Federal Acquisition Regulations, basically safeguarding the guidance. Right. Right. Now, we got how many families? 14 families. 14 families here. 14 families. 14 families here of stuff. We need to take care of. Let's get to some professorial stuff here. Walk us through just in general these families and sort of what they're about. Well, it's a combination of two things. It's the old FIPS 200 and it's the new NIST rules. Some of them taken out from the 853, which is organizing for the huge government organizations. So this is a subset of the controls for non-governmental organizations, but that are vendors of the Federal Government and a lot of people don't understand that this is for downstream. So if you're the Federal Government, I have a contract with you and Gordon's subbing out to me, we all have to be compliant. We all have to be compliant. We're all in big trouble. That's hard when I'm going to have to get, you know, Gordon to sub for me, I got to say, hey, you 800, 171 compliant. If you're not, I can't put you on my FI, yeah, there's no contract. Then there's Talking Tax, hosted by Jay Fidel at 1 p.m. every other Tuesday. They're holding a little something for themselves, isn't it? I mean, it's not just an error, not an oversight. They just, they just want a whole little rainy day money for themselves, isn't it true? That's what it seems like. I mean, you never know what the actual motivations are, but so, you know, one question is, how much money does the state really have? Yeah. After you answer that question, then maybe you can kind of get to, are we spending it properly or are we spending too much? Well, and is it accessible, you know, for the state in general? If it's essentially hidden. Linda Lingle, we talked about this last show. Linda Lingle had an initiative to try to find it. I don't think she ever found it. Maybe some of it, but there's a lot of money out there where if you're the governor and you say, gee, we need to dig deep. We need to get the special fund money. We need all of it now for a special emergency. OK, it's not clear what would happen. It's not clear that we'd have access to it. Yeah, I mean, I'm not even sure that the executive departments would cooperate, because, you know, as you know, there are elected officials, right, who are at the titular head of government. The issue orders to these departments. The departments have a lot of civil service people, and a lot of them have the mentality of, oh, well, you're here now, I'm here now, in four years you will be gone. And I'll still be here. I've seen that, I've seen that personally. And extraordinary, you know, it's like, I'm comfortable. Doesn't matter what you do, I can outlast you. So I'm not going to listen. Right, so that's the first P tensions. And around that are some very, very serious issues about kind of counting what we have and where we have it. So this, you know, this is a problem. Then there's Tourism 101, hosted by former Mayor Mufi Haneman at Random Times Monthly. Somehow I've always been fixated on doing a rail transit system. Why is it going to be different this time, that we're actually going to cross the goal line in your estimation? Well, first of all, I think you all were fixated on it because we have a perfect corridor for a major rail transit project here on Oahu. Between the mountains and the ocean, where the majority of the population lives, where the majority of the employment is, is just a natural corridor. And I know it was planned that way over many, many years on Oahu. So it really just made sense that there needed to be this high capacity transit solution to complement the very fine bus service that we have here. So it was important to have a champion such as yourself to get that project off the ground and up and running. I think one of the things that we've learned when I came back on this project about a year and a half ago, there were many issues in terms of really just, as I mentioned, project management, construction. We've learned a lot of lessons from the initial construction aspects of the project in the West. We've taken those lessons forward, and we're applying them as we come through the airport area now. And now as we come into the city center area, we're applying a lot of lessons learned and things that we should be doing. And we're managing the project, I think, much more effectively now going forward. So I guess what you're saying is that there really is no other option given the fact that we have a linear route, tailor made for something like this, we can't really expand towards the ocean or the sea. Then there's Adventures in Small Business, hosted by the US Small Business Administration, the SBA, at 11 AM on Thursdays. How did you get into the startup industry? Very hard to explain, but I just talk to people. I really have this idea that I really want to connect American and Japanese companies all the time, even when I was in Japan. Because I used to work in media company. Also, my father is running a business, many business in Kagoshima. Since I was a kid, I'm always getting involved with the business environment. So I've been seeing a lot of interesting business organization people in Japan. But then they're very, very good at making something, doing business, not necessarily active globally. So I want to help them to come to outside. And just always had this idea. So I just talked to people about, oh, I really want to do this. I don't want to do that. And then one time, I took internship at one of the biggest accolades in Silicon Valley, because they're doing, helping a lot of Japanese companies to introduce American startups. I thought it was a great idea to be there to learn how to do that. So I was there, and I'm just talking to people about my idea. I want to make something like connecting Japanese business with American startups in Hawaii. And I just talked to them. And then I talked to this one guy. And this guy talked to these Japanese companies called Livernus. And they called me, and they just said, hey, why don't you do the event in Hawaii? And we started to plan an island innovation every day. So it's like, I didn't have any friends. I got involved with it. And just talk to people and do the events. And through the events, I have to talk with many startups in the organization to actually make the event happen. And I started the business through the event. Then there's Exporting from Hawaii, hosted by Rob Hack at noon every other Thursday. Let's talk about methods of shipping with air freight. We talked a bit about this passenger aircraft. I think that's obvious what that is, all cargo aircraft. I think that's also obvious. Then a freight forwarder. You could, as a freight forwarder, put cargo on either of these. Is that correct? And even on the integrator. So what is an integrator? An integrator is one that does not only air frets, air ships the product, but it also picks up and delivers. So integrators are UPS and FedEx. And they're an international, big company. We use them, believe it or not, to ship container loads. They give us a container aid. Like, for instance, I want somebody going from LA to Hilo. They have a flight to go to Kona. While you're talking about this, can we bring up slide five, please, as air containers? I think probably some people in the audience might not understand that there are different types of air containers and that it depends on the plane, actually. And the cargo door and the capacity. Maybe you want to explain a bit about that. Right, and this slide, in the middle, upper one, the M1, we ship about two of those a day in from LA. That's our biggest hub coming in. And the other ones, we can go, what we call LD containers, lower deck. It goes in the bottom of a passenger flight. The M1s go on a cargo-only aircraft and that would be like the FedEx plane, the UPS plane, or Pacific Air Cargo. And also, Aloha Air Cargo have daily flights coming in from the West Coast. So, using these containers, we pay a flat rate whether we have like an LD3 container, lower deck, we can put up to 3,500 pounds. That includes the tear, the weight of the container. We can put 3,000 pounds in it or we can put 1,000 pounds. But we pay a flat rate. If we have less weight, it's hard for us to get a real good price per pound. If we had 3,000 pounds every day, wow, our price per pound is less. And we sell it per pound to our customers. Then there's the Cyber Underground, hosted by Dave Stevens at noon every other Thursday. When we do these talks in these rooms, we ask how many people use Office 365 and buying large? I mean, 99% of the hands come up. So, there's your cloud service provider, that's handling probably your email, perhaps your file storage. I don't know what else they may be doing for you. But when you do that, that's where these clause, this GNC clause for DeFar's compliance comes from is out of that cloud service provider responsibility. Now those are the shared controls. Yeah, if we could have a slide back, it's a good one to talk about. It's a really good one to talk about. GNC. The GNC, because here's the thing to point out. If you are a contractor doing work for the DOD right now and you are not Office 365 GCCI, you are already not compliant. Well, if you're handling CDI. And this is an assumption, if you're handling CDI or controlled unclassified information. CUI. CUI, confidential information. You have to be Office 365 GCCI. Yes. You have no choice. I only know of a couple of clients on this island that are doing that, that are at this level of Office 365. So if they're saying, well, I'm running Office 365 E2, E1, E5, Home Edition, you are not compliant and you need to be looking at moving to this now. Well, let's back up again. Well, Office 365 without GCC, which is government community cloud. Right. That is the regular service you can get, like E5, the enterprise level five. Commercial. It is compatible with 800-171. So you can be in this new cyber security module, maturity model, you can be level three. But you can't go beyond that because you can't comply with DFARC and G, which somewhere in there it actually says, if there's a cyber incident and you report it to us, the DOD, we have the option to come and take your physical hard drives, forensically examine those. Regular Office 365, you cannot do that because you're in a shared environment. You're not. You're virtualized across the same machine, you could be sharing the same hard drive with multiple people. So you have to move into GCC High, where you have a dedicated virtualized environment. So those hard drives are dedicated to just you. And if you're doing CDI or CUI, whatever, you have to be in that space. You have to be in that space. You cannot coast into GCC. Finally, there's Business in Hawaii, hosted by Daelyn Yanagita at 2 p.m. on Thursdays. There's a plethora of networking opportunities for business folks, BNI, there are other smaller networking groups. What stood out about Rotary for you? I think the thing that stood out about Rotary was that it felt like on top of networking, I was able to really do something that was good for the community. I think a lot of people know that Rotary does a lot of community service. So we are in East Honolulu and we tend to do a lot of service projects that are related to education and really helping people out. So to me, if I could network and meet other business professionals while also helping the community, that was really a draw for me. Was Rotary originally supposed to be a business networking group? I think when it was founded, that was the original premise of it. It had been founded by, I want to say it was a group of men in Chicago that decided they wanted to be able to network and do business with each other and from there it grew, it not only grew nationally, but internationally as well. Now, so the Rotary Club of East Honolulu is just one of many clubs, but Rotary is actually, as you had just mentioned, international. Tell us a little bit about Rotary International and how big does that go? Where does the scope go? It goes pretty big now. I want to say that there are like 1.1 million Rotarians around the world. So it's grown from just a small group in Chicago. In Hawaii, we've got a few thousand members, I think. The great thing about being a Rotarian is that it gives you access to not just the members that you have in your club, but the members that you have throughout the district. So Hawaii is just, is under one district, district 5,000, but being part of the Rotary Club of East Honolulu, I can also go out and meet members from different clubs throughout the islands. I can go to the mainland, join a meeting that they have. These and other business shows are a significant part of our talk show offerings and we're always looking for new and exciting shows and guests to keep you current. Those are only a small sampling of the shows we do about business. There are many more. 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We'll be right back to wrap up this week's edition of ThinkTek, but first, we want to thank our underwriters. Thanks to our ThinkTek underwriters and grand tours, the Atherton Family Foundation, Carol Monli and the Friends of ThinkTek, the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education, collateral analytics, the Cook Foundation, Dwayne Kurisu, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaiian Electric Company, Integrated Security Technologies, Galen Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, M.W. Group, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, VOLO Foundation, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Okay, Keisha, that wraps up this week's edition of ThinkTek. Remember, you can watch ThinkTek on Spectrum OC16 several times every week. Can't get enough of it, just like Keisha does. For additional times, check out OC16.tv. 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