Oh, that's a hard drink Hey guys, this is my review for a star is born and just wanted to show this off. I found this at Hot Topic Yes, I feel dirty saying that but that's a pretty cool mug. It is Tiny I know I'm very late for this review But I waited to see this with my girlfriend and I really did enjoy this movie. It is a very hard-hitting film It's not exactly one you're gonna want to watch you will definitely want to listen to the music Soundtrack is actually pretty good. It has a good blend of this kind of rock little bit of country, but not so much that you're gonna want to throw up and also the pop sort of Ideology of what Lady Gaga's music is known for but it's a very hard-hitting film about two lovers who are So entrenched with each other as well as in music and their passion burns bright, but at the same time their own want for success and Just joy is overshadowed by addictions and Personal demons and Bradley Cooper does a pretty good job for first-time director. I'll give him that he does it pretty well I'm considering apparently he didn't he had knowledge of playing and singing But he went through a lot of training and apparently he was hanging out with Willie Nelson's son Luke Nelson like every other day for a year learning how to play guitar The chemistry between the two is so freaking good Lady Gaga and Bradley are so good with each other Every scene they are in melds very well, and they play off of each other Fantastically it's the diving into the addiction side. I have talked with a few people who are Former alcoholics and they said this film nails it down and it really takes you into the depravity and just the The demons the personal kind of problems that addicts deal with and the film's ending is very hard It's a very hard-hitting film at the end But I feel that it leaves some questions up to yourself as to kind of the choices of the characters make and Why would they do those sort of things and what do they think the outcome of those are?  It's one of the better ones of the year for sure It's definitely blew away my expectations. I didn't even realize that this was a remake until I looked into it It's the fourth. I believe in the history of the films. I honestly was very impressed with this film It's a hard film. It's not one you'd want to rewatch all the time But the soundtrack is very good Lady Gaga gives a performance that I was pretty pretty impressed with I don't know if it's gonna win any award But I definitely know that shallow is gonna be on the running for best song either shallow or I'll never love again One of those two I'm gonna give a star is born a six out of seven. I really enjoyed this film I think it's a very good personal film and I was not expecting this from Bradley Cooper, so I Thought that was pretty cool Anyways guys, hope you enjoyed this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe Otherwise, that's all from me. See you guys next time


A good corporeal is a person that leads by example, 100%. So I strive everyday to make sure that everything I do, I'm doing it with my Marines. I'm doing it for my Marines. And I'm giving my Marines a person that they can go to on an emotional level and also on a professional level as well.


Mae'r berthynas gweithio ymlaen, Kate Whitehouse. Mae'n gweithio'r cysyllt y cymdeithas ac mae'n gobeithio ymlaen eich ydyn nhw'n gyffredigau o gyfrifio'r pethau o'r higion HIV yn y cyfnod Film TCT mae'n cyfnod o'r ddysgu'r cynghwladol a'r bwysig o gyfrifio ymlaen i gyfrifio ar gyfer hynny. Dwy ddod am yr hyn i'n gweithio, mae'n gweithio i'r gweithio. So, is to give you some context on why we conducted this systematic review. We know that globally, the number of children living with HIV under the age of 15 years is approximately 3.2 million. 90 per cent of those live in sub-Saharan Africa and reducing mortality of infants infected at or around birth is achieved with early treatment initiation. Felly, ydych chi'n eu cyfleidio i'ch trafnod o ddwylliant. Mae'n rhoi'r dda i ymddangos yn y cyfleidio ar gyfer mae'r dda, ond thysgu'r digon ar gyfer pwysigol. Mae'r gael ffôl â'r target a ffordd o'r ffawr o'r mhwy o'r ffiarogau i'r kitai ar gyfer a'r brydging yma. a ydych chi'n gweld i'w ddweud o'r nifer o'r cyflwyng? Y dyfodol yn ei ddweud i fynd i'r rhaid i'r adnoddau a'r uchyr, y FWHO's global guidance, o'r cyffredin iawn i'r strategii a'r ffindio'n hiv positif ar gyfer hynny. Rwy'n rhaid i'r cwestiynau diogel yng Nghymru, sy'n ymgyrch beth hynny o'r llythdoedd a ddyn nhw'n yn fawr am gyfarfod ymgyrch, Does HIV screening in four key contexts enable a higher yield of HIV diagnosis when compared with screening in prevention of mother-to-child transmission settings? So those four key contexts are paediatric inpatient, paediatric outpatient, nutrition centres and essential programs for immunisation. So on methods, we limited to 2014 studies published in English or in French in the four key context mentioned and we looked at under 12 HIV prevalence. We included either serological or molecular testing and either universal or triggered screening protocols and needed an HIV positivity of those tested included in the studies. We excluded anything outside of those four key contexts. We excluded diagnostic testing and we excluded studies where testing criteria was not stated. We also didn't include studies that had highly specialised or specific out or inpatient care, so for example TB. We searched the databases using a highly sensitive search strategy, extracted titles in duplicate and reviewed everything in duplicate and had a third party tiebreaker and we aged disaggregated outcomes and pulled the data using random effects meta-analysis. So a review, we found 2,890 studies after de-duplication of the main databases, identified 38 studies with HIV prevalence data and of those 25 with specific under five HIV prevalence and those are the results that I'm going to present today. So an overview, as I said, 25 studies with primary outcome, so that's under five HIV diagnosis, with 15 reporting secondary outcomes, so we also extracted data around acceptance rates by caregivers for HIV testing. We looked at retention in care and we also looked at feasibility or acceptability and uptake by healthcare workers. I'm not going to present secondary results today but you can ask me about them. Geographically, 23 studies were in sub-Saharan Africa, one was from India and one was from Papua New Guinea and the majority of studies came from pediatric inpatient settings with 16 studies reporting those outcomes. So to have a look at our results, there's a fair degree of heterogeneity in these results, but what we can see when we look at pediatric inpatient settings, which is the top section of this virus plot, we can see that the pool proportion was 25.3% for HIV positivity in under five. If we look at nutrition settings, which is the second section down, that reduces to about 13.1% and in EPI settings, again, reduces to 4.9%, without patients the lowest HIV positivity rate at 1.62%. What we can say is that these results offer us a certain amount of direction whereby to investigate new settings to try and find HIV positivity in pediatric patients. To give you some context for why this is relevant to MSF, we did a very quick extraction of one operational centre, one section offering of HIV testing to pediatrics in projects where there's an HIV focus within the country. So to have a look at those results, again, this is just one section. Many thanks to Helen for helping us out and pulling this data together for us. We can see that broadly HIV testing for pediatrics is available, but primarily if symptomatic. Where it is available, there are a number of barriers that healthcare workers noted as to why it's difficult to offer HIV testing. Those include availability of trained counsellors, consent for testing, and the confidence to provide testing and to disclose results. So no testing is available in EPI settings, and I think that's worthy of note. In terms of a breakdown as to the number of projects, as compared where HIV prevalence is greater than 1% within the country that the projects are operating, we see that the number of projects actually offering testing is substantially different from that number. So if we look at inpatient departments, we see 18 projects operating in countries with the prevalence greater than 1%, but only four are actually offering HIV testing to those pediatric patients. So there needs to be some work done as to how we improve the situation within MSF itself. And so some of the recommendations that we've pulled together are that we need a bigger emphasis on postpartum retesting of mothers in EPI contexts, which would be much easier than actually testing the pediatric patients. There's an ongoing lobby, the HIV working group and the pediatric working group, both proponents within MSF to integrate HIV testing into pediatric projects. And there is guideline training and support materials available, which have also been developed intersectionally, so there are no excuses. So to have a look back at the review, I just want to note a couple of main limitations of our systematic research. Studies were limited by language, so that may have an indicator for other studies that are available, not published in English or French. We're limited by date and to lower and middle income country contexts. The data that's primarily available is only really for under fives. It's very difficult for us to have disaggregated the data for the five to 12-year-olds, and that would be interesting, and that's something that we're continuing to try and work on. And the data is only really from sub-Saharan Africa and in in-patient settings. Not all of the studies provided comparable background prevalence data, so they're either inadequate or indirectly comparable. And PMTCT coverage changes have occurred since some of the studies were published. So to look briefly at our recommendations, we have one main policy recommendation, which is that testing pediatric populations in some key contexts may well offer high-yield opportunities to identify HIV-infected children, and notably pediatric in-patient settings would appear to be the most pragmatic approach. And our research recommendation is that we definitely need more studies from other settings, including nutrition, outpatient and EPI, with only three studies apiece in their systematic reviews. It's quite difficult to really draw strong conclusions on that. And we definitely need studies outside of sub-Saharan African contexts. And in order to address the barriers that were raised notably within the MSF projects that I mentioned, whilst HIV testing is already recommended, the uptake is low, and we need to consider how to address training needs, what to do about the availability of testing and counselling, and the legal barriers, so age of consent to test must all be addressed in order to improve the situation. So many thanks to the brilliant collaborators and colleagues that I've had the pleasure to work with on this. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for an excellent talk and for a very important, to cover a very important topic. Again, it's just technical questions we are going to take, and then hopefully we will touch on that subject again in the discussion round. Any questions? Thanks, Katie. That's a very interesting talk. I mean, as you say, the recommendation for testing kids has been around for a long time now, and I guess I was very surprised to see how low the rates of testing are. Has somebody looked at what the actual reasons are? Do we have any data on why? I know there are possible theories, but has someone actually collected reasons for why we're not testing? I'm not actually sure, but there are a few people notably in the front row who probably have an idea as to why. I don't know if Helen, you want to...? I think you might need one. So, as you know, Daniel, a long debate within MSF, some sections are better at it than others. Still, the question comes back to, are we going to test who's going to treat them, believe it or not? Still in 2015, that discussion goes on. So it's something we're still really pushing the nutrition projects and paediatric projects towards that it should just be a normal part of the care we're providing, but we're not quite there yet. Thank you. Any other questions? So there are questions from the online audience. I have a question from MSF India who are asking, is there a reason why we're not testing at present, and is there a qualitative research study plan? I've got no plans for a qualitative analysis as yet, but reasons for not testing I think are probably covered mostly by the challenges and the barriers. It's very difficult to address age of consent issues. I think a number of healthcare workers feel quite uncomfortable with providing testing for paediatrics when either the paediatric is a little bit older and there's that blurred line between a minor and an adult. I think also disclosure is another aspect within age of consent. Disclosing an HIV positive result when the parent or the caregiver hasn't actually initiated the test is probably problematic. Then in terms of availability of staff, the MSF projects all noted that it's very difficult to have staff available ready to give train counselling. Then within EPI context it's quite a quick turnaround of paediatrics, so you're seeing them very briefly. We probably need to look at a different strategy, i.e. testing mothers or caregivers rather than the paediatric themselves. If I can just add to that, even so it's not an MSF project but it's from Zimbabwe, so I have been working with Rashida Ferrand on adolescent testing. We actually had six primary care clinics where we had provider initiated testing and only 70% of the children got the test offered by the healthcare providers because the healthcare providers weren't very comfortable. We did a qualitative piece around that and asked why are you not testing the children even so we have trained you for doing that. Really the main barriers were A, running out of test kits because PMTCT is prioritised. The second bit was not really being sure if a guardian who is not the mother or the father is going to be allowed to consent, age of consent and how to actually do the test in the context of a young person. Following that we did a big kind of stakeholder and training campaign and that brought the offering of testing up to 95%. It is achievable but you really need to bring your healthcare providers on board and I think we have to think about moving from something which we call provider initiated testing but a provider still says what is the risk I'm going to do it on a symptom basis because I'm more comfortable with that that patient probably has HIV and that one doesn't to a real routine opt out testing for children and adolescents. Thank you very much.


I just got home from seeing this film a short while ago and really all I have to say is that it was very good. I don't have any complaints about it. There weren't any problems with acting or with any special effects. This wasn't a special effects film really or with any of the... I just didn't have any problems with it. Films like this that are quote-unquote based on true events are usually so outrageously inaccurate that you really can't trust them at all. But what I've been reading about this film is that it is supposedly very accurate. The one surviving woman of the three that are portrayed in this film, she called it quote, very, very accurate. The historian from NASA's Langley Air Force Base, he says that they asked him literally thousands of questions. They were very meticulous about getting their facts straight. The author of the book that this is based on says that John Glenn really did say the things that he said in the film, which is astonishing to me. I was thinking when I was seeing this, this has to be fabricated or at least exaggerated. But no, he wouldn't get on the spacecraft until he heard from this one particular woman that the numbers were right. There were a number of times in the film when I had tears in my eyes at the end and the two old ladies on either side of me, they were crying at the end. People applauded at the end and when do people applaud at films anymore? They don't do it. They applauded at the end and then there were the obligatory presentations of the photos of the actual people with text about what became of them. And there was a little bit of applause after those as well. When do people applaud twice at a film? Considering the subject matter of this film and the nature of this film, I think it's the kind of thing that's very important, especially now. I mean, this country has changed and not just a little, it's changed dramatically. Just between the time the film was released and today and things are changing so fast. Just during the time that I left the house to see the film and come back, things have changed. Insane things coming from the White House have changed things. This is such a time of division and separation and anger and racism and misogyny are such terrible, terrible problems that we thought that we were on the way to conquering and we haven't. I mean, the fact that this film is the number one film in the nation that it replaced the latest Star Wars film in the number one spot is not an accident. This is a time when we need to see films like this. So if you haven't decided whether or not I'm recommending this film, yeah, yes, I'm recommending this film. Go see it. This channel and 30 Second Sci-Fi and all my activities here are patron supported. So please like and subscribe this video and click on the link below and on the screen now to go to 50th Street and become a patron of 30 Second Sci-Fi and you can make a one time donation if you like. Thank you.


Buckle up buttercup because we are getting ready to do the third installment in the 2023 best in beauty. This time it is face cheeks. So we're talking blush, bronzer, highlighter, foundation, concealer, powder, all the good things. And then I have a couple of surprises for you that I'm throwing in here as well. I'm so excited to be able to do this. So let's get right into it. But don't forget that we have a numbering system on my channel. The number comes up on the screen that corresponds to the product that I am holding up. Then all you have to do is remember that you liked number three. You go down into the description box. You look for number three. Next to it will be the product color, the name of the product, the color and the link if you'd like to shop that way. It seems to be a lot easier for everyone. I don't always go for one high end, one drugstore. There's a huge mix of both in here. I tend to gravitate towards drugstore because I think that the price point is fabulous and prices are getting up there. So I get it. But at the same time, when it's good, it's good. And there are times to splurge, which you'll see in here a couple of things. I also want to tell you that my sweater, my jewelry, my fingernails, which are press ons, my makeup, everything will be listed and linked down below for you so that you can see that. Let's get started. Let's start with something I was really excited to talk to you about. Koki, they've had this out for a long time, but I didn't know anything about it.  And I'm going to talk about color in just a second. But if you want to transform your foundation for it to be more dewy or more matte, they have these mixers in there. This one is dewy. They have a matte one. They work like a dream. They are that good. And they give you this big, huge tube, which I don't know if I'll ever go through. But this is really good. And if you're looking for something to save your foundation that you spent so much money on, you definitely can fix your foundations. And this is the first step if you need to change the consistency of it. But also I've talked about so many times on my channel that you can fix the color of a foundation by mixing in different pigments. And I have to hear and inevitably when I pick up a foundation, it's either going to be too dark or it's going to be too orange or too yellow. And so you can fix the orange or yellow part by picking up a blue mixer. Or and you can fix the dark by picking up the white. Now, if you need it to be darker, I wish that I had something like a black or something, but they haven't come out with that that I know of. So if you know of anything like that, let us all know in the comment section. But these are from DeRoll. And I like these a little bit better than I liked the ones that are the LA girl. I still love those. I still use them. I'm using up what I have, but I found these and I wanted to tell you about them because they have a little bit thinner of a consistency. The ones from LA girl can be a little bit thicker. And if you like a thinner consistency on your foundation, that kind of, you know, messes up that little bit of a consistency part on there. These don't. These will still stay very thin. They're very lightweight. They mix in like a dream and you need so very little because they're highly pigmented. So I wanted to tell you about these as well. Now let's talk about foundation and you're going to all boo and hiss at me. But guess what? I only have two high end foundations. Now, that is not because I don't love drugstore and I am going to do my favorite foundations at the drugstore because they did just get asked about that. I haven't done it in a while, so I'm going to do that. But if any of you have a new drugstore one that you really love that came out this year, please tell us all about it. Now, the two that came out, the Stick Foundation from Fenty Beauty and the House Labs Tri-Clone Skin Tech Foundation. Both of these are beautiful. Now, I have the House Labs one on today. I love this foundation from House Labs because it has something like nine or more different silicones in it. Now, you would think that that would make texture on a mature person's skin. It doesn't. It actually does the opposite.  That's kind of what this does. It's just so pretty. It's a beautiful foundation. I get great wear time out of it. It's got a medium consistency so I can build it up and put one more coat on and get a high coverage out of it. But you can definitely sheer it out if you want to as well. If you need it a little bit sheer. So it's really a really in the middle as far as consistency and coverage. And I love that about it. Wear time is fantastic for me. I do have to set it down with a little bit of powder and setting spray. The star, though, that came out this year that I was so impressed with is this Fenty Beauty Stick Foundation. Now, I know and it grapes me to that it's not as cost effective to buy these stick foundations.  I use this on a brush and it's like using a concealer because of how thick it is. So it's totally a cream, but it's absolutely gorgeous because you have to use so very little to get coverage. And boy, am I needing coverage lately between my melasma and my hyperpigmentation across my cheeks and across my, you know, right down here by my jowls. I am needing coverage like I've never needed before. So this to me has been such a perfecting foundation and great wear time. Again, I lately have been having to powder and spray things down a little bit, but that's OK, as long as they get them to last. But this is just so perfecting and so pretty. And I would pick this one probably before I went out and picked up the House Labs. But this would be a very, very close second. Now, I want to tell you that the Elf Liquid Pourless Putty Primer gets my checkmark like five stars checkmark. Whatever you want to say that this is fabulous. This is so much like the touch of one that I went gawk off for like, I don't know, three or four years ago when it first came out. It's still beautiful, but this one is wow. This one they did they did so good on it. It really is just very perfecting and very lightweight. You know, the Putty Primer that you get in the pot from Elf. It's still wonderful and I still like that one. But I like this one a little bit better because it is a little bit more light and I don't have any problems with putting extra layers on. You know, sometimes as you're older and either you're menopause sweating or you got oil breakthrough or whatever it is, sometimes the extra layers can be a little bit of a problem or an issue. This Putty Primer is not an extra layer. It just blends so beautifully under foundation. Definitely gets my stamp of approval. And I didn't have another high went high end one either. But I wanted to talk about the Nix Marshmallow Primer. This one came out like five years ago, two maybe four years ago. I don't remember when it was. And yes, this is too expensive for a drugstore primer. I get it. I don't know why these are so expensive, but it is. But my point is, is that I forgot how much I love this primer. This primer is so lightweight and it feels whipped. Now it does have a very strong marshmallow vanilla fragrance to it. So if you don't like fragrance, skip over it. But for me, this one plays so pretty underneath foundation that I felt and head over heels in love with it all over again. Now, the reason that I refound this refound, the reason that I found this again is because they did release a spray, a setting spray. That's the marshmallow one. And I'm still testing that out for you and it will be coming in a new drugstore makeup video. But yes, this again was my newfound love for this year. Now, as far as setting sprays go, I only have one. It's high end. It's the one that I've used all year long. And I really haven't even reached for my Charlotte Tilbury. And I love Charlotte Tilbury's setting spray. But this is the Max Fix Plus Stay Over Alcohol Free Long Lasting Setting Spray. This is fantastic. This sprayer doesn't spit at you. Got to have a good sprayer all the time on all of my setting sprays. But what I love about it being alcohol free is because I am a dry gal in the winter and it doesn't dry me out more. When you need something that's working with menopause and working with the breakthrough that you kind of get through your T zone, you need to have that little bit of, you know, set it down really good. But don't dry me out. Let's give me all of it. I want my cake needed, too. And that's what this does. It's just a really, really good one. And I am in love with the original Max Fix Plus, but it is definitely a primer spray. But this one is so good, so good. And I can highly recommend it and definitely loved it. This one is a Korean brand. This is a Pink Blur Tone Up compact. It's this packed and it's a pink setting powder. And it is it's either a Japanese or Korean setting powder, but it's this pink tone in here. And I really love it because it's super light, but it's super brightening. And if you have very fair skin, you know how important it is to not make you look more shallow. You need that brightness. And that's what this does. It's really very perfecting and very brightening. Now, it is your typical powder, but it's very, very finely milled. And I love that about it. So I really recommend this one for a drugstore alternative. I know that it's sold on Amazon, but as far as the price point and the fact that it's such a pretty powder, definitely go for it if you've been looking for a new powder. NARS has this new powder as well this year. And I love this one, too. This is called the light reflecting setting powder. And this is called translucent crystal. Now, what this has in it in a lot of you are going to go, oh, I don't want anything like that. But it does have the super refined little teeny bit of glitter in it. But it is the lightest powder as far as I mean, look, I just OK, I'm going to rub on this really hard. Look, it didn't hardly bring anything up. This is one of those powders that's super special because it feels like a no powder powder. So you can completely set your face down up down with it. It still gives that light reflecting property. I am so tongue tied today, I apologize. But at the same time, it is really a beautiful powder for keeping the makeup in place. But it is the most light and airy powder I've found all year. It's so pretty. I've used this every day since I got it about two months ago when it was released two or three months ago. And it's not got a dent in it because it's like you're not picking anything up. There's hardly anything there. Very special. This was the year of the concealers. I cannot believe between mascaras and concealers. I cannot believe how many were released. But I narrowed them down for you. I have two high end that are fantastic. And I have a drug store. Let me tell you about the drug store first. Koki released their full cover concealers like their foundation. Their foundation has been a hit with me for years. I love that full coverage because it is a really good amount of coverage without being cakey and heavy. And that's what this concealer is like. It's got the big dough foot applicator that we've come to know and love since Tarte came out with Shape Tape. But it definitely has the coverage and you can use just a tiny bit because it's so pigmented. And get your coverage without it being cakey and creasy. And I love that about it. So this is a hit with me. Absolutely. The two that I absolutely love from high end. I'll talk about the one that came in the place of number two. And that is the Natasha Denona. And I said this wrong when I originally talked about it. I called it. I think it called Hourglass. Natasha Denona's new concealer is so gorgeous. If you have mature skin, you've been wanting the perfect concealer that is not super full coverage. I would say that this is a medium coverage, but you can put enough on that it will cover no problem. But this is really, really creamy and really beautiful to blend out. This is one of those concealers that I felt like was just super special when I got it. This is actually the first one to come out. And then they all hit the market at once after that. It was crazy. So I love the Doe Foot applicator on there. It actually does have a little hole in there. So it's picking up a little bit more product, which I use a tiny bit of product anyway. But this is so gorgeous. Yes, you do have to set concealer down either with setting spray or powder. I have to. I have crinkles. I have wrinkles. And if I don't set it down, it's definitely going to crease on me. So keep that in mind. You're not in a league of your own if you can't find the perfect concealer. Now, the number one absolute gorgeous concealer that I found make up by Mario. This is a medium weight concealer. Have it on today for my concealer. And I have dark, nasty circles. It is medium weight, but it's super high pigmented, but it blends so gorgeous. It is perfecting. It is it.  I have not found a concealer that I fell in love with as much as this one this year. Kosas was probably the last one that I fell so much in love with. I don't know how long, how long ago that was. I was probably five years ago, too. But this one is every bit as beautiful. Makeup by Mario does such beautiful makeup. But when he did this, I was so excited because I wasn't a huge fan of his foundation. But boy, I'm a huge fan of this concealer. It's not going to crease super badly. If I choose not to put any powder on it, I just put a little bit of setting spray on there to set it down. I love this. I love this so much. And I really couldn't wait to tell you about it. Let's talk a little bronzer. Now, I am somebody that doesn't wear a lot of bronzer, but I love to contour. So I kind of combined the two and I'm always trying to find the perfect shade in between the two. I recently just found the Milani new one. This is the new their new cream bronzers. And this is a great bronzer. It has a great consistency. It is just a little bit too warm for me, though. And it can make me look a little bit too orange if I go crazy with it. So I wish that they this is the fairest one. I think it's either a fair or light. I can't remember. I think there's three colors. But gorgeous and I'm not kidding. This is just absolutely beautiful. It's one of those ones that you definitely can blend out without a problem. So gorgeous. I would say it's on par with this lady right here, which is a Charlotte Tilbury's cream bronzer. And when I open this up, you're going to see that I have a big old divot in there. And that's because this has been my go to such an easy blend. Huge pan. Now, on this one, you're going to see the difference in what I'm talking about. This one from Melania is just a little bit more on the warm side. And then this one from Charlotte Tilbury has got just that little hint of cool tone in there, that little subtle gray grayishness in there that just makes it look gorgeous on anybody that has cool tone skin. That is always the problem with me is not being able to find a bronzer that is that little bit on the cool tone. You don't want to have a bronzer that looks ashy, obviously, because you're warming up your face. But if you do want a bronzer that is absolutely fabulous and cream, everything's going to be practically cream for me this year, just so you know. From Kiko, this is their bronzer stick. I use this and use this and use this. This is a perfect bronzing shade or non-site contour shade. It is so good. And I would always say with this one in particular, actually, any stick or cream that you're using, I would always put it onto your brush. Tap it into the palm of your hand and then put it on your face. If I draw this and I don't care whether it's the L.Y.S. that everybody's talking about or not, if I draw any of these on my face, I'm going to take away from my foundation. It's already on there or, you know, not get a really good blend. I just am somebody that knows that you need to either warm it up somehow or put it on a brush and tap that brush out a little bit. But what a great color, right? Just so pretty. When you're wanting to chisel out those cheekbones or that jaw line or take down that high forehead, this is gorgeous. And then a little bit of one of these other cream bronzers on top of it. You've got the perfect look as far as bronzer goes. All right, we're down to highlighter and blush. I only have a couple of highlighters for you. I do want to talk to you about the Laura Mercier product that just came out. Let me get the exact name because I do this every time. Real flawless, luminous, perfecting, pressed powder. Now, this is a perfecting powder, not a setting powder. Why? Because it does have that luminosity in it. If you are to put that luminosity all over your face, it's going to make you look greasy instead of perfecting your skin.  If I put a luminous powder over those large pores, it's going to show texture. They're going to be bigger. But if I take this and I am very strategic about it. So if I go down my nose or if I go across my cheeks or if I go in right here on my marionette lines and brighten that up because it's got a shadow because it's a little slunken in, this is going to brighten it up just like that Nars powder does. But it's going to have that little bit of luminosity and have that little bit of light reflect that's so pretty. You can wear this across your eyelids and it'd be gorgeous. Even to take out the discoloration, you know, like swipe it across one and done a little bit of bronzer on your eyelids, you're done. This is beautiful. The powder itself is creamy, feels great. Let's talk a little highlighter. When I got this highlighter from Merritt and this color is very specific. It's called Kava. When I got this, I threw it to the side because I was like, I don't like that. It felt a little bit tacky and it didn't feel creamy. It just felt like it was, I don't know, just like it didn't impress me. So I don't remember what I was doing. But maybe I was just swatching because I do that often, you know, I just go into my drawer and I start swatching and I happen to put my finger on it like this instead of using a brush.  Right. But you don't pick up a lot because the way that the stick is very firm.  It just gives this subtle sheen on your cheeks so pretty. And I was blown away by how gorgeous this is. And really love it now and use it constantly. But I remembered that Flower Beauties Day Glow. This is pretty much the same thing. I will say that this one is just a little bit more thick. So you have to be a little bit more careful with this one. So you're not going to want to, like, put a brush down in there.   Oh, my goodness, it's so pretty. These are my picks for highlighters this year. Now I have five blush, five different blushes in front of me. I know all of you have heard a million times about the Rare Beauty blushes. These are a cult classic for a reason because she just did such a good job on these as far as their pigmentation. She picks out colors like nobody's business. I have a red one of these and I love it and I meant to bring it, but I didn't.    These are absolutely incredible blushes. If you see a color that you like, grab it because you're not going to be disappointed. You're going to absolutely love it. So these are, yeah, these are so, so good. I just absolutely love them. But Moira also did a liquid blush. Now, I will tell you the difference between the Moira and the Rare Beauty is that Moiras are just a little bit thicker of a formula. That means that you're getting a little bit more pigment, if that's even possible. But they are truly just just a little bit more on the side of you need even less than you do the Rare Beauty, if that is even a thing. But they blend like a dream, just like the Rare Beauty does. They just blend so well.  They just have this high, high pigment. But the staying power I feel like with these for Moira is even more than they are from the Rare Beauty and that's saying something because the Rare Beauty, I can get to last all day, but I can get these to last all day, all night. You know, I'm going, going, going. And these are the energizer bunny. They're just keep on going. So I love these ones from Moira. They have great colors as well. Also, I discovered these blushes, cream blushes from Honest Beauty. And I kind of were thinking that these were going to be a really good substitute for some of my favorites, which are from Fenty Beauty. Well, yes and no, they are almost the same price, but they have almost the exact same consistency as them. I do love the colors of these. This was the one that everybody was looking for. It's kind of a lilac-y color there. This is a bubblegum pink one. So beautiful. I love how pigmented they are. I love how easily they blend out. If you're into cream a little bit more than that liquid that we just talked about, these are probably going to be something that you'll really like. And I do really love all of the colors that I've gotten so far. They're just a great formula and they do blend like a dream. I bet you have this longer than you can use it before it dries up. And I I've had mine for a long time and they haven't dried up or anything. But I bet you haven't for a long time. Now, the very last one, though, and again, Moira steals the show. I love these every bit as much as I love the Fenty and I love the Honest Beauty. They're so pretty. This one from Moira, it's almost I couldn't tell the difference unless I actually was had the packaging with me. There's no way I could tell the difference. These are just gorgeous. Let me tell you, I should have told you the colors of the other ones. This one is called I trust you. That's that one right there. The next one, let's just keep the glasses on. The next one is called I miss you bubblegum pink again. I miss you. High pigment again, creamy, beautiful on mature skin again.  And these are just gorgeous. And I, you know, I'm the type of person once I find something that I love like this, I could buy all of them and just be a happy camper and move right along. And yeah, we could do that all day long. But these are beautiful and they truly are on par with the higher end ones. OK, I fibbed you that said that was my last one. It's not this is my last one. One size beauty has these gorgeous trios of blushes. And the reason that I'm so enamored with these is because you have the cream, the powder and the highlighter. You have a whole wardrobe here. This one, particularly I wanted to get because I was really intrigued by again, the bubblegum, that was kind of all the rage during the summer, right? But the cream on here, look how high. Poo, look how high pigmented the cream on there is and the powder. Super soft, super pretty. But this down here, this highlighter one, it is almost a duo chrome between a silver flip with the pink and a peach. I it's so pretty and you can use that one just as a, you know, a blush, maybe do a little bit of powder over it because you wouldn't want it to be so disco ball on your cheek. But definitely this formula is so not get out of the park gorgeous. And yeah, I'm looking into getting some more colors of these because I thought this was just really special to so I'm all pinked up. I'm all ready to go and need to have a major makeup cleansing here. But I hope that you did enjoy seeing all of these face products. If you have anything that you've tried throughout the year that you have just absolutely fallen in love with, let me know. I appreciate you being with me till the end of this video. Love you so much. And I also want to announce that I'm going to have a giveaway really soon. So don't miss one video because I'll be sneaky and I'll put it in there somewhere. We'll have a video up pretty soon, probably before the end of the year, that is a giveaway video. So I hope you're all doing well. Love you so very much. See you in my next video. Take care, my friends. Bye bye.


just got back from a couple hours of battling the jungle again today I got stung right here and on the back of my leg luckily after I got stung the first time I realized what it was and quickly looked up saw the swarm of bees or horners I don't know what they were turned and ran unfortunately I was in a swamp and just imagine taking all of the furniture in your house piling it into one room not standing up just jumbled all over the place and then flooding that room to like three feet deep and then try to get across that room without falling in the water that's what it's like walking through the swamp and I was trying to run I was running along this log that had been there for I don't know long super slippery and everything holding my machete away from myself so I don't fall and land on it of course I'm not an idiot but then I came to this tree that I just come across so I was trying to like hurdle that without breaking it falling in the water I did manage to get over it and land on the other side of the log but then the next step my leg went off the side and I fell in the water I didn't totally fall I didn't go up to my head or anything but I jumped out and kept running around and got away from the bugs they only stung me one more time anyway I think I'm making progress starting to figure out where where my border is on that property yesterday I got lost in the the same swampy area man that swampy area is so confusing because it's not only like like a bunch of piles of furniture where you can only step in some areas you also can't see anywhere because there's there's trees everywhere so you can't see very far so yesterday I found my my corner post like the edge of my property that's the corner and I was like going along this side and I was like okay let me find the the marker that's over there and it was about 50 meters away according to my GPS thing now the GPS thing doesn't work that well because there's trees everywhere blocking the signal so it kind of the signal kind of goes in and out so I'm going that way and checking every once in a while on the GPS and at some point I realized oh I've passed where I'm supposed to be I've gone past the marker so I try to turn in and go toward it but then I'm like oh there's some dry land let me just get on the dry land because I've been slogging through not slogging through so much but kind of slogging through some swamp staying on the you know the lumps of ground as I go but I was like oh there's some like 20 foot high dry ground let me just get on that and then try to go to where I'm going well the the high ground did not know did not go where I needed to go and it was I was trying to kind of curve around anyway very quickly I got to a point where I was like where the I don't know where I am which direction I'm aiming I don't know how to get back wow at one point I walked about I don't know 50 meters like straight into the jungle hoping I was going out of the jungle luckily I kept my wits about me didn't lose my marbles and I knew that I wouldn't get super lost because I have the ocean on one side a stream on the other side and then a friend's property over on the other side so I was hemmed in by those things and then my neighbor started his generator and I was like oh now I have something to hear that's that's a known direction and I can keep listening to that because when you're walking through this swamp like you can't walk in straight lines you have to kind of walk like this and it's you just you know 10 steps go by and you're like I think I'm still walking west and it's like you're walking southeast it's kind of hard to explain to someone who's never experienced like being in a forest you know they say you can get lost in the forest like that and one of the things I did when I first moved to the forest like 15 years ago in Vermont was you know I had my my camp set up where I was building a dome and I had a spring and there was a cliff face there so all stuff I recognized I knew that area very well but then there was this hill that went up into unknown forest and I was like I want to test this out I want to see how easy it really is to get lost in the forest I'm gonna walk up into that forest just for like a minute so I walked up into the forest for about a minute maybe less and I turned around and I just got this like sudden like mild panic like where the f I have no idea where I am I don't even know which direction I'm aiming now and I thought about it and I was like I just turned around did I turn around and make a 180 or did I turn like just partway or I don't know so I tried to look back to see I was just going that way I should recognize something now everything looks the same it's all just trees and they're all the same obviously they're not all the same but it's like they're pretty much all the same so anyway I picked the direction I thought was was gonna get me back and I'm walking along and I get to this cliff face and I'm like ah okay this is gotta be the same cliff face as the one I know that means I should be somewhere near the path and I look around I'm like oh I'm practically standing on the path that goes to my house so I walked out and I came back like 45 degrees off course just going out for like a minute and that's what I that's when I learned how easy it is to get lost in a forest or a jungle because like in a city you always have you always have streets and you can see really far so there are landmarks you can see and everything's everything's on grids except in Boston where everything's a spaghetti street but generally speaking in a city or any kind of suburb or anything like that you've got grids so you can you can walk straight but take away just imagine you're in an unknown neighborhood and take away all the street signs you don't know where you are right you know do I go down this street that street that street okay now make it so you can only see like 20 feet ahead of you and any or in any direction and then you're like I don't even know is there a street up there is your street behind me then take away the street and the houses and then make it so you can only walk on certain fights so easy to get lost in the jungle just just like that anyway scouting out the jungle is going well despite you know getting lost and stung and stuff it's all part of the adventure to me in my opinion but yeah I'm starting to get an idea of the the layout and where where might be a good place to build a build a house workshop stuff and where more importantly where I want to start growing food because that's like the biggest reason I want to start doing stuff over there is because there's a really good area along this stream that's very fertile land where I can grow food and I want to build some buildings over there so my family can come hang out I don't want to just go by myself and you know be farming all day just by myself I want those guys to come and hang out so I want to build like a place a cool place where they hang out yeah all right I think I need to go have some dinner it's exhausting slogging through that forest


Would you like to start? I believe everybody knows me, right? At least in this room. So thank you, Minister Tang. So we start with a few questions or a few topics that you would like to probably elaborate more. While the COVID-19 pandemic goes through recurring waves, there is another pandemic magnified by the social platforms called infodemic that seems to spread as fast and with equal uncertain consequences. And how can the technology and associated innovation counter it? And is there a digital vaccine under development? Yes, several. So I believe that we usually realize on two things and both are in conjunction with civil society. And the first strategy is called humor over rumor using the power of humor, which is even more viral than outrage to counter the rumors. And also notice and public notice, which is a little bit like quarantine, that makes sure that we contact trace the whereabouts, the lineage of a piece of disinformation and then make public about it. When people are about to share it, they can see that it's actually a information manipulation. So in the later strategy, one example would be a couple of months before our presidential election. So at the around the end of 2019, around the same time as the coronavirus first appeared, there was an idea that said that the people in Hong Kong, the young protesters, were murdering the police and get paid $20 million and a quote. And then, of course, that's not true, but it's making the rounds in Taiwan because we partner with the voluntary fact checking groups such as the co-facts project from the G zero, V of zero community so that people can't long press any message on the line closed chat room to kind of report spam or scam or disinformation. So we know at any given time which scams or spams or disinformation are getting viral, so to speak. So at that time, we understand it has a maybe R value of three, meaning on average, each person spread it to three other person, which will then spread it. And then the contact tracers get to work and then to look at the picture. And the picture that's associated with that caption was actually a Reuters photo, but it only depicts a young protestor. If you look at the original caption, it only says there are young protesters in Hong Kong, sorry. So somebody mutated the spike protein to overstretch the metaphor. And then, of course, then the contact tracers fact-check that and trace it back to the Weibo account of the Zhong Yang Zhen Fa Wei Zhang An Jian, the Zhang An Sword or the central political and law unit of the People's Refugee China regime Weibo account. And so they discovered that that's when this original mutation happened. And it's then registered into the international fact-checking network so that on Facebook and other social media when anyone want to share this story, because we don't take anything down. We don't do takedowns. But there's a kind of mandatory label that says this message, this caption that you just shared is proudly sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party or something like that as discovered by the contact tracing work of the TFCC. And so I believe this small anecdote shows that just as we counter the pandemic with no lockdown, we counter the infodemic with no takedown because takedown when done incorrectly, I think it amplifies the polarization and the state. For the state, there is no correct takedown, right? So we should enable the people's immunity by exposing people to kind of the mRNA strands package in fact-checking. I think I've already overstretched the metaphor, sorry. I think that's the basic idea. Thank you. The second topic is that the COVID-19, and I know this is particularly dear to you, the COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the Gen Z and it is setting the stage for the young youth to interact with the healthcare system among other systems. Are there digital technologies helping them in this aspect on a global scale and in Taiwan? What after the F1922, is there a plan for a digital vaccination passport? If yes, how will it look like and how would it be authenticated and recognized globally? Well, it will look exactly like the European Union DCC, which you're probably already familiar with. So we looked around and chose the standard that is open and that is friendly for non-EU members to also adopt. And so the EU DCC implementation is already done. The only thing that's preventing us from rolling it out generally is, as you mentioned, this kind of mutual polylateral agreements to certify each other's digital signatures. I believe that's still in the works, but Commander Chen Shizhong of CECC have said publicly that it will roll out by the end of the year, which is only four weeks away or something. So we'll see. And we designed it so that it doesn't require any single app and that's part of the digital inclusion that you kind of alluded to. So if someone doesn't have a smartphone, they can use a tablet or a desktop on their public library or anything really to register on that website and just screenshot or print that QR code. And it's as good as a what we call yellow card, the vaccination card, because currently to do international traveling, you have to actually go to a clinic or hospital dedicated to print such international vaccine card, which is not very inclusion friendly for people who are in the more rural areas and so on. But we're designed so that any laptop with a printer can print internationally recognized card with a UDCC compatible QR code on it. And the API is open so that, for example, when we roll out the contact tracing SMS based QR code, we get two million vendors printing their own QR codes. A lot of it was with the help of FamilyPort and the I-Born from FamilyMarch and 7-Eleven respectively, right? So you can actually use their kiosk, enter your phone number and some contact details, and then using their printer to print out any number of those QR codes prettily laid out for other people to scan. And many people did do that. So we're opening up the API so any major convenience store chains or really anyone who want to be a distribution center for the yellow card, the vaccination card can sign up to do so. People are increasingly living out their lives in the digital space, which governments cannot fully control. What are the government's options to contain the power of the big tech companies, including their power of censorship, while preserving the constitutional rights, and at the same time, pursuing the national priorities? Yeah, well that's a seminar topic, we can't spend three entire days on this topic, and I've got about 30 minutes, but anyway, I'll be very brief. I think that the main challenge to democratic polities, especially during the pandemic when we have to do things like contact tracing, is that it seems like an impossible trade-off, where you either aggregate all the data to the state, which creates its own problems, or you aggregate data to the large private companies, which creates even more problems, and there seems to be no kind of winning path from this. But in Taiwan, the one I do as a miss, I just alluded to, was neither a state aggregation solution, it's not gov tech, but it's also not a private sector tech, it's literally created by the very civil society who care about privacy themselves. The Gov Zero community with around 10,000 active participants designing all those different solutions, looking at all those different international solutions for contact tracing, finally settled down what we call multiparty computation, meaning that the state must not aggregate your check-in SMS. So when you scan the QR code and send it to 1922, it doesn't go to the state, it's just stored temporarily on your telecom carrier, and the carrier just rotates it out, it's like a post-it note that gets removed and shred after 28 days, exactly like the paper-based shredding, except of course it's done automatically by the telecom operators. Now, the telecom operators doesn't know which venue these 15 digits correspond to. As I mentioned, only the venue owner and the trade van company, which maintain this database, know the mapping type of a trade van, doesn't know your checking records. So it's like puzzle pieces, right? Out of those six or seven different puzzle pieces, you have to piece everything together in order to reverse engineer the whereabouts of any given person, but all of them have signed contractual obligation that only mandated contact tracers can actually look at those different pieces of data together, and they must leave a reverse auditable record. So on the website sms.192.gov.tw, if you type in your phone number and receive SMS and authenticate yourself, you actually get a full downloadable print of all the 28 days window of contact tracers looking at your messages. So it's like reverse accountability, exactly like if you use a national health car, you can on the NHI Express app look at which clinics and pharmacies have accessed your health data in the past. And so that's basically ensure mutual accountability and even for wiretapping agencies and like the investigative unit and so on, who initially filed a search warrant, one of them filed a search warrant which was denied by a judge that wanted to use the SMS records. We very quickly issued an interpretation saying the SMS, each of those SMS-aged characters words that this is reserved for pandemic control use only and therefore it's deleted after 28 days unlike the wiretap SMS which is deleted after six months and this is sent not to anyone really, whereas the SMS regular is sent to someone you know and so therefore these are different things and if the telecoms do not hand over data to the wiretappers, that's entirely legal. So we issued that interpretation not because we're nice, although we are nice, but because the original inventors was not government technologists, the initial inventors from the civil society are ready to say that the government has abused their initial design unless we make such interpretations. So having social sector-owned public spaces in the digital realm I think is the way out from this kind of forced dilemma between aggregation between the big tech and the big state. Thank you, thank you and very brilliant explanation. As we progress towards hybrid models of living we will see more things done obviously remotely, working from Omis effect, shopping online has grown tremendously recently, education online is implemented as a new way of learning, also the political systems are moving towards more participated processes with generic or specific digital platforms that give the possibility to form and organize large crowds. In some countries, like in Italy, I am personally doing it, we already see some early experiments of direct participation through digital boards. I know that digital democracy is a big topic for you, I see some of your things on YouTube and I know that you are going to join a workshop in the US summit for democracy. What are the implications, the limits of the digital democracy and what are the implications of cyber security on it? Well the limits basically are bandwidth and latency, there's like networking one-on-one, but to extend that metaphor we can talk about the bandwidth and latency of democratic institutions. For example, representative democracy with legislators being voted in every four years, the latency is four years and the bandwidth is very small, like each person only about three bits of information when it's one choice out of eight parties for example, three bits of information every four years and that used to be a high bandwidth decision-making method when all we had was stone tools or paper, but nowadays with digital we can improve the bandwidth so that it's not just about voting in the legislators, but whenever the legislators want to think about something that's emergent that the legislators themselves and their team do not have first-hand experience of they can what we call crowdsource, that is to say ask non-specific people on the internet about what they feel. Now of course back in 2014 when we occupied the parliament and did some of those early research many career public service were afraid of this kind of digital consultation and with good reason because they think that it will only lead to polarization, hatred or you know the kind of discrimination, vengefulness that you see online and then my main message was that that was because they were using or misusing Facebook and other digital equivalent of no town halls but nightclubs to do their deliberations so the same sort of citizens you need to design the digital equivalent of town halls of public parks of university campuses so that people can act in a pro-social manner but if we don't design such spaces and use only say Facebook then it will be like us trying to hold a town hall like this conversation but in a smoke filled very loud private bouncer addictive drinks nightclub now I have nothing against nightclubs I mean the entertainment sector is has reopened inside well it's not a place that will designate a town hall meeting or deliberative democracy in so in 2016 when I became digital minister that's the year when we classified the like civil IOT and the joint platform or whatever all these as digital infrastructure and that's the first time that we call it ji chu jian shi previously infrastructure budget was only allocated to concrete things like literally think made of concrete but from that point onwards things made out of bits that enable the same sort of conversations that people can have on the concrete spaces town halls and canvases and so on are eligible for the public budget investment so to answer your question more directly I believe it's all about the willingness to invest in the digital commons when people invest in digital commons then the limits can be surpassed and innovated upon by the civic tech sector but if we misuse the entertainment sector or infotainment sector or whatever facebook now builds itself too then we're basically trying to repurpose it outside of its original purpose and it leaves essentially no room for a third party independent invention thank you then Taiwan has received praise for from a recent EU delegation visit on its efforts to fight disinformation as you were mentioning earlier and was even suggested to become a regional hub in this fight against disinformation please tell us about the government's efforts so far against this disinformation and what improvements could be made in the future and obviously I am referring not only to the disinformation coming from outside but also to the one generated locally which is also a lot okay yeah so not just about the Hong Kong protesters okay right I think what we're our main message to the to the delegates the the MEPs was that most of the work and preferably all of the work are done by the social sector by the independent journalists by the schools and institution for education during our presidential debate there's a lot of misinformation probably not from outside of Taiwan but internally but the school children like middle school children many of them participated in the public tv and some other new media organized a collaborative fact-checking of the presidential forum and debate so that many people typed in whatever the presidential candidate of three of them said during their public speeches and fact-check it against the the data sources and so on but it's not just a classroom exercise if they actually discover something that is out of the the norm that is actually counterfactual their contribution become immediately visible on live streams on public tv and things like that so this kind of media competence classes is what since 2019 we've replaced the old classes of media literacy because media literacy was in an age when it's radio and television right people mostly consume and you can think against critically but this critical thinking doesn't remix and transmit well because not everyone own a broadcasting channel but nowadays literally everyone owns a broadcasting channel at no marginal cost right at a fixed rate per month and so because of that the kids are now learning to remix the media to be part of the media and i believe this is the the true solution the true vaccine of the mind so that when they fact-check all three presidential candidate they become really immune to the biased or polarized or populist arguments from from any side because they've considered all the sides and taken their own view and also most importantly share it with the entire society so to double down on education both basic education and lifelong education i believe that's the long-term solution to the infodemic okay the EU has proposed the introduction of digital identity you were touching this topic earlier which will allow citizens residents and businesses in the EU to prove their identity and share documents in their wallet with a click upon providing for example the requestors age in Taiwan that's my experience this is done verbally every time we have to do something we have to speak with an operator telling our address our telephone number our date of birth and so is there a plan to to move towards a similar project as in the EU yes in Taiwan as you said your conversations with the private sector operators currently do not have a widely agreed upon digital certificate although there is the citizens digital certificates and one for foreigners too but a rollout has been slow and not many people even know that art there and pinging our cdc actually has a nfc chip so that you can actually use your smartphone and contact it and use it but not many people know that and so not many people have a habit of using it which of course makes the roll out even slower and so on but for public service we do use the national health insurance card where the NHIA allows a kind of wide list of government entities to register the use of NHI card with the NHIA and the NHIA will provide the authentication but not the medical records and not writing into the medical records area in Asia so purely as a authenticating device and the NHI express app which serves the same function by issuing the one-time pin codes and also a virtual QR code that you can show it to your camera to your clinician over the video conference and that counts as a swipe of an NHI that has grown exponentially during the two years of pandemic before the pandemic the NHIA express app has maybe 10% or so so similar to the cdc the citizen digital certificate not the center for disease control the digital certificates but nowadays I think it's over one-third I think it's approaching half of the population having downloaded the NHI express app people use it to register for vaccines for the quintuple stimulus vouchers and things like that and so I believe for public service we've not really solved that the issue altogether but at least close to half of the population now are getting into this norm of mutual accountability leaving a record of all the you know national health insurance card uses and so on and also use it to last year to dedicate the mask quota right internationally so that's many people's first entry into what we call data altruism and also to to receive a kind of NFT from the NHIA certifying that you have donated your mask quota internationally around seven million pieces of masks has been dedicated this way so NHIA express app leads our main way of interfacing with the population during the pandemic and we're expanding the use on more public services during the pandemic before because it has a norm that is trusted upon by the citizenry now the general purpose private sector reusable electronic it many people felt that first it's we should not rush to roll it out during the pandemic because as in worldwide during the pandemic people trust the things that exist before the pandemic and during the pandemic people do not want to have to redo the assessment of cybersecurity and privacy when it's used on a kind of case with urgency that essentially everyone has to use is essentially essential service right so the EID was postponed so that the legislature can consider more fully the implications of private sector using something like the norm of the national health care but without the national health care sensitive data of course purely as they authenticate and then once they pass the EID law we expect that it will also take care of the digital inclusion that is to say to mandate that the public service must be provided even for people who prefer that their EID doesn't have an E in it so just new ID right with a disabled chip or without a chip altogether but they must still receive the exactly the same essential service on the regulation level the mystery of interior already kind of promised that but many people felt just like the national health act and the passport act they need a law level guarantee that says the same thing so that's what we're working on right now thank you and Erie do you have any questions too well perhaps a belated reminder to everyone here that the minister speaks very quick and contains a lot of substance I've already slowed down so you should feel free to raise any subjects because in 30 seconds of my shift to another subject that's so you know if anyone has any questions please please do raise it I thank thank you minister and I'm if I can summarize what you were saying about fact checkers you are saying that the world out there people in their own media are using their power to fact check government and hold government to account right as that that's pretty much what you said I'm interested in the same happening in the private sector particularly the financial services sector it seems to me that banks and insurance companies are not up being up front with us they don't tell us what they're doing why they're doing it why they need it what they're going to do with it and so on and therefore we are stuck in a very stagnant system of banking and finance and so on in in Taiwan I think if fact checkers could have the same power of access to private sector companies there maybe things would change or maybe there would be more dynamic and more digital friendly and so on at the moment they're just kind of covering up why they're doing it because everybody does the same what do you think would you agree with me firstly and secondly what do you think people could do well a financial service with democratic participation transparency and accountability that's the main ask it's called credit union right I mean Taiwan does have credit unions you know right right which is and I think that the main challenge really as the term platform cooperativism I believe that's the more european take on this is essentially taking the same route the historical routes of a co-op of a fully participatory and accountable democratic institution but then building it with with code essentially because in Taiwan it is true that many credit unions and co-ops for that matter have difficulty retaining the younger talents that are more equipped with you know cryptography and other necessary skills that that can recreate the kind of social contract on the face to face setting but on a electronic or digital age so a lot of our work in the social innovation lab presidential hackers on and so on is just to get those two groups of social sectors the younger civic tech sector and the older community builders regional revitalizers community college people co-ops credit union people and so on to know each other and then build interesting work together and I think that provides a viable alternative a similar dynamic happened back in 2015 when I first kind of intern as a reverse mentor in the minister jacqueline size office physically the same offices I'm holding now and then we talk about uber and a lot of the most innovative idea came from the the mozilla foundation a social enterprise and also the local temple and churches which want to also work with the fleets locally in a way similar to uber but they lack the kind of technological know-how to build such solutions so when these two groups of people work together and we legalize the multipurpose taxis and so on as long as you don't undercut existing taxi meters you're free to to work with the local fleet and so on then it enabled the local temples and churches in a way that's similar to credit unions or co-ops and they also benefit and of course with a strong social sector support of course uber finally kind of relented and registered as q-taxi locally and played by the same rules those temples and churches do hello hi minister adry okay so uh i believe now it's the time for taiwan to gain exposure to gain connectivity with the world okay ever than before but uh in the post-pandemic situations people are hard to travel and hard to connect and i believe with your expertise we can think about crazy things that we can connect with the world so i would like to take your view your perspective on what other strategies perhaps a metaverse taiwan that we can issuing digital residency residency or even citizenship to foreigners who does not need to be here but with necessary requirement that they too can participate in the development of taiwan in the current time thank you i think it's called a gold card i mean we've got that so so the the main thing about gold card especially during the two years of pandemic is that anyone i think the science and technology gold card especially says that if you consider yourself have the potential to contribute to science or technology in taiwan then you're eligible for a gold card so basically it's anyone really working in related fields can if they identify with what taiwan is about then they can get the gold card even without ever having traveled to taiwan they can obtain it overseas and when they do so then it's a foreign one card and one of the four is the resident certificate so it makes the travel actually easy at no point do we bar gold card holders to travel to taiwan during the two years of pandemic so something like that i think already exists and there's a vibrant gold card community that uh literally look at the national government council's gold card website and said that it doesn't work so so they they forked that website into their own gold card website and then got merged back right as the official gold card website so if you look at the gold card website now it's very good but it's built by the gold card holders so basically they they pulled eight of zero right forking the government on the national development council and we need more spirits like that and many contributors may not be physically in taiwan when they did this contribution and they also contribute of course to the binary bilingual nation plan and many other plans as well that's right exactly yes yep uh maybe on the topic EU recently announced a global gateway which is in line with the green directive as well as a digitalization and maybe a couple of things back on the point that Giuseppe was asking about this information the EU parliament was very kind in saying that there's much to be learned from taiwan it could as a gold mine yes yes can you briefly summarize what you think taiwan can offer in this space yeah um so one of the the things that we can offer is that this social sector led way of innovating so it's not that other countries don't have uh civic technologists right we have g0v.it the italian gov0 right and and many others but essentially the latency is too long in many other democracies for a civic tech person to solve a local problem to that idea becoming a national wide policy it's like four years at least in latency but in taiwan it it happens regularly right the mask availability mob is like three days sms contact tracing three days the vaccination uh one-stop-shuffle vaccination uh appointment essentially just four weeks or something like that uh and then the presidential hackathon every year ensures that the top five teams of the social innovators receive the presidential promise that it will become policy with all the personnel regulation and budgetary support that it needs in the next fiscal year so essentially made in taiwan doesn't mean any particular product or service but rather a design a configuration of society that people can then take this process and this model and then remix with their local ingredients so what we're offering is essentially an open recipe uh to increase the bandwidth of democracy through what i call people public private partnership multifaceted as well as open society yeah exactly just like the the bubble tea right open recipe and uh open ingredients so you open the discussion by saying humor over rumor so we we noticed that on digital democracy you actually made bubble tea exactly literally bubble tea maybe you can share that with our audience a little bit that the bubble tea it's i have not brought it with me if you check out my my twitter account uh or facebook or our instagram account uh you see the making of bubble tea uh and from the source materials while i explained that bubble tea in taiwan which started mid 80s and got really popular in the 90s never was patented uh and so it's really open so uh the bubble part could be black or white up you can bought a milk part could be soy milk or whatever milk uh the tea part could be black tea green tea or or red tea uh and things like that and it's still it's it's boba right it's still a bubble tea and so uh explain the idea of open innovation using the newly minted bubble tea emoji i think it's just one year old we didn't used to uh to have this emoji but now many people are saying that it should be our national emblem or something but anyway so we just spread those emojis around saying it represents open innovation and the spirit of digital democracy because it brings joy and it's really quite humorous so so right check out the uh film which is i think probably sponsored by the check uh business chamber in taiwan so again multifaceted and back to openness exactly yes any other questions um hi thank you very much for the very interesting examples you gave also on like um public discourse and technical infrastructure that enables that also like to um increase bandwidth and reduce latency um i have a question i've also seen and heard another talk of you in a podcast where you introduced like the i think it's called polys system for structuring discourse and then also how to select or vote using quadratic voting and these processes and i'd be curious um to hear your take on how that might actually that infrastructure that has been created might actually also be used not just in the um public realm but also maybe inside organizations because that very much strikes me so organizations are basically still look like north korea from the design the way it's designed and on on the outside here in the public space it's very democratic and transparent i'd be curious to hear your take on how could that be utilized inside organizations yeah one of the the easiest cell uh has been slido now i use slido for most of my talk uh but for this particular one because we're now in a setting where we are legally uh musk less so so we don't have to use slido but otherwise when when we're in a place where nonverbal communication is difficult to meet or if it's hybrid and half of the participants are online to give everyone a kind of equal way to chime in and it's hard to to read the room and know what topic people are interested in and how many uh minutes should i spend on that particular topic but now i can see very easily by you nodding so i have not used slido right now but slido and for people who didn't see it before it's a very simple idea that everyone's phone can scan a QR code presented on a screen and then people can leave anonymous questions and comments and vote on each other's questions and comments and just like polis it has no reply button by default so it means that people can't really troll each other but rather if you see a question that you think it's it's bogus well the only way the only recourse is to raise an even better question and convince people sitting near you to vote for it right to to lobby essentially uh and so just like polis slido is real time it gives a a very engaged sense of conversation and uh in the many panels that i shared with private sector leaders and so on uh i think um i think the the chairperson uh the ceo uh jingqi of a major telecom uh because she was public about it i can quote her on it say that it did the main thing that uh she learned from me is that she can't hold the company town halls using the slido system so using video conference or a large town hall regardless uh the she can actually surface that the few questions that resonates within her company and so and commit pre-commit herself to answer always to the issues even difficult questions that has the highest number of votes so it gives back a sense of democratic control right if you can control uh in kind of crowdsourced way of the agenda of the conversation of course then it builds trust mutually because a leader pre-committing to answer difficult question that has the highest votes basically trust the citizens trust the constituents and the same for from the company leader to her employees hello adres it's so nice to meet you here my name is Diana and i was very surprised that we do not use slido today i know because we're in a most class environment yes but you know i was chatting in one of the guests here he told me he's very shy i said no worries otherwise you know allow us to use slido so you don't have to stand up and ask your question too bad now now they have to tell you the question so you can ask for them i'm just uh very curious because of the pandemic and you know a lot of serious patients like uh cancer and then you know some i know we we have some regulation and so doctors cannot visit you know there are some problems for the treatment for for the patients and they dare not to go to the hospitals so i'm just wondering whether the government is thinking about how to to to to review the current regulation and to enhance and to consider telemedicine to help our patients in taiwan yeah our new revise of the telemedicine regulation fortunately passed right before the pandemic hits so especially for people in the 14-day quarantine they benefit tremendously from the kind of kind of virtual national health card program i think when we encounter our real first wave and the only wave so far dismay the timely rollout of the n h i app express app backed telemedicine teleconsultation really helped a lot of people suddenly found themselves in quarantine and i believe our current telemedicine regulations and laws is is not so much about the laws and regulations themselves but rather about the adoption of the clinics it's just like the teleeducation we we have actually the tele education laws and regulations but it's not until dismay that many educational institutions actually try it out for the first time because last year they did not have any excuse i guess to digitally transform and also they they considered the tools the meeting tools and so on last year to be insufficient for their needs now of course with the rest of the world's beta tested such tools for for the last year when we finally roll out in may we see really good adoption and educators as well as the pharmacists and clinics and so on took just i think two or three weeks to adopt this new way of working together but nowadays of course we're back to zero covid cases so many of the educational and medical institutions are now rolling back some of their measures so i think it's it's natural for them to do that and we need to uh i told the national health care insurance administration to focus on the things that are actually providing a value for the clinicians themselves when done in a telemedicine situation for example in the rural areas in the indigenous nations in the offshore islands as well as in the places where there's plenty of 5g coverage in their community but not in a fiber optic connection and things like that and spend money on these places where it actually provides and not a nice to have but a must-have and then when we get the platform easy to use enough and convenient enough then we'll go back and talk to the hospital information systems in the hospital that are considering this at this moment nice to have thank you so much thank you and perhaps along the same line of health care we chatted earlier data yes in taiwan very rich very resourceful populations comprised of multi ethnicities what's the government thinking on is it just concerned that i mean it's not going to disclose individual data perhaps but what's the government's thinking on that yeah um so part of our national action plan on open governments is to maximize the value of data and and those ideas of high value data sets is actually i think a european idea that we just adopted but i think one of the main difference is that although our privacy protection prison data protection act was largely modeled on the eu1 before gdpr we have not made the kind of gdpr assumption that there is a fundamental trade-off between privacy on one side and usability on the other gdpr made that assumption because it was at a age at an era like before the zero knowledge proves on blockchains and many other mathematical inventions like homomorphic encryption was commercially available so on that particular year it's probably true that there was such a trade-off but recently if you check out my my instagram at digital minister i partner with the national center for high-speed computation to roll out a set of popular memes videos like the bubble scene and it pictures me kind of wearing a blindfold and operating on your health data without looking at it anyway it's supposed to to be a lighthearted introduction to the very difficult mathematical idea of homomorphic encryption i don't know the math either actually so but but the idea is very simple if i trust the national health care insurance the nhi the nhi trust a cloud provider like the nchc trust is not transitive right so if they hand out my personal data to nchc for computation it means that i trust them less because i don't trust this cert potse and in gdpr times it could be only a kind of trade-off decision in this particular configuration but with homomorphic encryption it is solved basically the nhi can encrypt my data and send it to the nchc which does all the computation it wants by operating on encrypted data so it knows nothing about what that contains and then after it does the computation it sends back the result which we then decrypt and get the results back so it decouples data access storage with data computation and there's many new inventions like these that we're now working actively with the nchc on and so i believe it's just like sustainability and development when i was a child these two words represents a trade-off right you either care more about environment or about economic development but now it is the same idea sustainable development and that's because we've innovated on new forms of energy new forms of circular economy and so on that can actually advance the development part without sacrificing the sustainability part and vice versa so i'm i'm really happy that we got this experimentation lab kind of with the latest privacy enhancing technologies and we're also happy to share with the the european counterparts now that they're also considering where does gdpr go after these new ideas that comes from the blockchain communities um there is the time for our last question because the minister tang is so we have time time for two questions so one is from our hi minister tang i'm a co-chair of the hr committee and i want to raise a question regarding the employment issue we understand that during the past two years due to a kov-19 the happy work and working from home has become the new model and i understand that you are also you also work from home most of the time so i just wonder whether i just want to stick your insight regarding what's your views regarding the future work model and you know for example because um currently even though most of the people have returned to the office but there are still some people who work from home and when you are work from home most of people think it's meaningless to keep the so-called attendance record and i just wonder what are your view in this regard and what what you view regarding whether our legal system should uh uh whether the uh the legal system should be updated to embrace the new work model yeah back in 2015 when i helped minister jack lindsay launched the first e-rollmaking project in in vtai one uh we worked on the teleworking regulations with the ministry of labor uh and so the chuxin jidoo and zaihai gongshan rending or whatever all these basic labor law kind of conceptual bridges to a teleworking environment has already been done so i think we're on firm regulation and legal ground here now of course the norm is another matter all together the the fact that we have such regulations doesn't mean that the company is considered normal to adopt teleworking so yes i'm a teleworking minister when i announced publicly that i'm only entering the captain building on mondays and thursdays when i entered the captain in 2016 i think some major media did a poll and i think only around 60 percent of people feel comfortable with this so i'm on kind of thin democratic ground here and and then i think the same media ask so what if any level of public servants could do this and i think the support level was just 30 40 percent or something is on even thinner democratic grounds so obviously the norm is not the same as the teleworking regulation with us in 2015 now fast forward to today of course i think most people consider that teleworking is a necessity now but it's a skill that almost have i think we have this norm here but whether to spend all this time in a teleworking community i think that depends on the nature of the work i spent two days a week in the cabinet office not because i have to but i consider that this is the kind of minimal amount required for me to build camaraderie and solidarity with my teammates and in the other days i'm not at home strictly speaking i'm touring around taiwan or touring around the world before the pandemic as it were but i can't work from from anywhere the taiwan high speed rails actually is one of my favorite home offices i could travel anywhere and i do like interviews and so on on the high speed rails thanks to the amazing 5g and 4g infrastructure along the lines and amazing noise canceling machine learning algorithms that allows me to to block all the beeps and what that is part of the high speed rails and so at least the sound quality would be really good at the video sometimes lacks but anyway that the point here is that if you're comfortable in the team with this part-time teleworking i think that is the hybrid solution that most people are most happy with and i don't really advocate for 100% teleworking when i work with silicon valley companies like social techs and opera and so on it's true that i don't live in palalto or cupitino and so on but in palalto for example every half a year we have a oh hands meeting and then my colleagues even send me uh fedex me kind of boxes of napa valley wine not very expensive not expensive at all actually but just so that we can maintain kind of the same camaraderie atmosphere right before we get to work or after we go to work we can drink and know the taste that the other party drinks from you know the other side of the world tastes the same or when they uh usually hang out after work to to the local Gordon Biasch and when the gb opens in in taiwan as gb's and now they insisted that i go there and telework so that we can enjoy the same atmosphere and so on so so this this non-verbal this convivial parts must be intentionally designed when you telework but you can't design that unless you have at least spent some quality time together okay uh yeah hi i'm thomas i'm workers gandy a domain and registrar right which you know um i did know that you like wine actually and there's a there's a european christmas market just next to here like maybe 10 minutes walk at shangti avenue until until sunday it's also supported by the european chamber so there's a there's an event there which is promoting european foods and european drinks as well because europe is very good for food right you've been limited so you know very well um my question now is uh there's a there's a growing digital divide for people who are foragers in taiwan and it's the same in every country what i mean with that is uh if you have a foreign id number for example or if you have a if you if you cannot use the website in chinese then you click on the english button and it just brings you to the company portal and says like hey okay uh this is all corporate information and there's no information or but even if you use chinese um i have this problematic and many of my friends as well i even have some friends who are entrepreneurs who applied for taiwanese citizenship because they are fed up living in taiwan since 30 years and they cannot actually naturalize everyone that's one solution the solution is to naturalize of course but uh but uh you know for example i have some entrepreneur friends who want to start a business they say they could get a small loan in taiwan which is very good rates in taiwan like three percent for maybe pay them off in 10 years uh but they cannot apply it because everyone asked them to go on the website um enter the id number and it's incompatible and they just that's already where they are blocked and uh even myself i ask my bank if i can invest invest in some structures etf i have a very good relationship with them i know they have vps and whatever they say oh you can do it be good for you then they set up everything and finally say oh we cannot but you can do it over the counter you know so you can come in person every time you want to buy and sell something so uh i don't want to do this so my question is what kind of solution you can see for for for giving more access to people who have forage and residents like i think there's even 700 000 migrant workers in taiwan right so that's a for for businesses actually a very good population but no matter who i talk with uh even with the private sector they don't really see the solutions because the system is always adapted towards residents right so yeah but do you think there could be a law or or some legislations who actually forces at least some specific sectors to be more inclusive for people to avoid digital divide well first of all for the record as a public servant since 2016 i don't drink alcoholic drinks anymore okay for the record and so now to your question um i think for the public service the the reason why for vaccination and many other like musk and whatever systems we've switched from using the kind of citizen digital certificate which really has a really slow rollout to the national health card is also because the national health care protects residents not just citizens and and because the is like a social security number right so if you don't think that this number is secure anymore you can always get a new number on the national health insurance so national health insurance system is already having this idea of continuity across many numbers uh and so for for the national health insurance agency really as a foreigner or not a foreign it doesn't really matter right so so it cares only about the kind of unified id that's printed on the n-h-i card so if you have not updated to the new style foreign resident certificate id it's okay the n-h-i doesn't really care and if you change the n-h-i has a sense of continuity now i think it's even solved the mobile identification issue so if you have a monthly plan you can actually also use the n-h-i express app and authenticate yourself too to it so the n-h-i express app i think is equal uh it provides equity to people with the foreign style id cards so especially in the public sector we're seeing more and more like administrative labor and so on certainly for tax filing and so on switching to the national health care or the mobile id as the two primary identifying numbers uh and i think the the expat community the foreigner community made a push last year to the tax agency when they did not update the tw id so the new style tax filing service using mobile id was uh citizen only but that says a lot about our expectation like if you use the national health care id you must also cover for resident otherwise it is your problem right so i think this norm setting is good and we should still uh look into more parts of public service that doesn't accept either the n-h-i based authentication or mobile id based authentication because the foreigner community is equal in these two main modes of authentication and as for the you know the the numbering of the national id card and things like that unless we naturalize and everyone it's difficult to get an incentive for everyone to upgrade their system space on the kind of physical id card i think the the next push may may come when uh we we introduce the the kind of second digit a new second digit uh for domestic persons uh that may come in a year or two and that will be another window to push for more wide recognition uh for the digits eight and nine right so that that that they will come but before that day comes i think we should push for mobile id and or and should i express for the private sector and the public sector respectively thank you thank you minister tan we just have a small token of appreciation a cup of coffee okay a cup without coffee thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you