 Hello everyone. I'm Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and co-founder of the Public Digital Innovation Space, or PEDAS. I'm glad to be invited by the Taiwan Design Center to welcome all of you. It is great to have representatives from so many countries across Asia, and I believe the meeting will be very inspiring. I'm extremely excited to hear the news of the establishment of Public Service Design Alliance, or PSDA. Harnessing the power of design in the public sector, we can enhance mutual trust between the civil society and civil servants, as well as help transforming and refining public services and policies. The successful adoption of design in government involves multiple challenges, and so we see different strategies adopted by various countries across Asia, because we have different histories, different cultural backgrounds, and different social norms. In our case, since last March, the PEDAS team here has built a cross-ministerial mechanism called Participation Officer Network, or PL Network, which covers all ministries under the Executive Yuan to help tackle diverse social issues, so-called wicked problems, by facilitating and empowering public servants to learn about multi-stakeholder collaborative workshops powered by service design methodologies and civic technologies. As we know, the aim of PSDA is to empower practices, academic research, and education in public service design across Asia. By sharing case studies, co-creating methodologies, and working on theories, we can conduct pioneering projects together through an open network. If we are to achieve better solutions and to overcome shared issues and challenges, such as aging populations, environmental sustainability, and digital transformation in public services, we need collaborative platforms, such as PSDA, to achieve a blended fusion of all the different streams of knowledge and experience. So it is a great thing that PSDA will shortly begin its service, and I believe that PSDA will help raise the voice for those involved and enhance the design energy across Asia. So thank you for your listening, and I wish you a fruitful meeting.