Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Mike Druhan from Medex Health Corps. How are you today? I'm wonderful today. Thanks Tracy. Well thank you so much for joining us with Market Drivers. Can you tell me where Medex is heading to first? So Medex is a put together a platform that allows us to do early detection of skin cancer. And we're doing a raise right now for two million dollars. That allows us to get our technology out into the marketplace. Everything has been completed in terms of the scalability and interest in the market for our technology. That's what we're doing right now. And can you just, you know, for those of you out there investor intel like me, not heard about Medex until recently at the Rays Conference in Quebec City, can you tell us why your stock is up 30% for the year and what your competitive advantage is please? So I think the stock's up because I think we've got a really good shareholder base. I think that they've been patient, they understand what we're doing and delivering. And I think we've been accurate with everything that we said we were going to deliver. We've delivered. I think they're starting to see signs recently like we did in the Netherlands of landing a fairly large scale contract. And I think that's excited the market. And secondly, in terms of differentiation, every device now that's an imaging device is a class one device. We're a class two device. We solve a major problem for dermatologists being able to read skin cancer, potential skin cancer lesions over the internet. And that's what we do differently than anyone else. Now the deal you're talking about in the Netherlands is the Dermsecure deal. Is that correct? So Dermsecure is the platform by which we're able to be scaled up. Dermsecure allows us to put our patient management system on top of that. It allows us to put our imaging system to allow all of that information to flow securely because there's a fair amount of regulatory side around privacy to get that information over to a dermatologist. So let me give you a live example. For example, we have a clinic up in Sudbury that currently has our technology installed. A patient can go in there, be scanned for skin cancer. We've had this happen. The results go down to the women's college hospital where Dr. Trevor Champagne, head dermatologist there, reads the patient's file and assesses that patient. We've had it happen so quickly that we've had a patient assessed on a Thursday who had a second stage 2 skin cancer and had it removed the next Tuesday at the hospital. So we can compress that time. The wait times in Canada, if you're outside the central core, can be 12 months. So Mike, can you tell me what's different about your medics economic model? Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing that the market's hopefully looking at now. We're now an actual SaaS model, so the software is a service. As we now control everything from the patient, from the beginning to the end, we put it across a Chrome browser. That means that right now, the way it works is every clinic we go in, we sell typically to a clinic for $2,500, but every time a scan is taken, we get a recurring revenue. And that revenue flows between $7 and $10. So what you're going to see is, for example, if I were to model it out, let's say we did a pharmacy for 1,500 installs, that number works up to about 8.5 million top line revenue, and we've never been able to do that before. That's the big differentiator right now. So what you're saying is the opportunity is now. Is that correct? Yeah. We've been a long time doing the platform and getting this right, but the acceptance that we're starting to see, like you saw in the Netherlands for 4,500 physicians, that I expect to see a lot more into 2019. So what should we as shareholders anticipate in the next quarter or two? It's a great question. So I think we've got some big scalable stuff we've already sort of pre-announced that we're working on Mexico. I think that'll come in very shortly. And I expect you'll start to see some big pharmacy change right around the globe, start to adopt the technology. And we're also working in some segmented areas with the military and other areas like that that are specifically high-risk categories for it, airlines, things of that nature that are specific to people with high incidence of skin cancer that we can go in and work in that target at market. Our audience loves artificial intelligence. Can you be a little more specific about the competitive advantage of your AI? Yeah. We looked at a lot of the AI platforms out there, some very, very large companies in that space trying to discover what is a melanoma. And it turns out that's a very difficult question to ask. What should be asked, we think, in the way we are driving our AI, is what is an melanoma? The wait times to get in to see a dermatologist, 97% of the people that are waiting to see a dermatologist have a benign lesion. They're not going to die from it. We need to be able to get that, 97% of the people, out of the lineup and only get the people that have stuff that is lethal go into the dermatologist. So our technology in the AI question we ask is, what is not a melanoma? Because that can be dealt with with a regular GP. So where are we taking you to next? Oh, if you could drop me off at the King Eddie, that would be wonderful.


Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I've got this really nice showstopper card for you. So this is a 6x6 version of the 5x7 version interlock card that I shared about a year ago. Maybe yeah no I think it was last year I will link it here anyway so if you do prefer 5x7 styles then check that one out because it's a really nice card that's been very very popular. But I wanted to do a 6x6 version and then the way this one ended up working out in my head I ended up making it a double version of that. So if you did want to make the 5x7 bigger then just follow this tutorial because you'll be able to see how to do that but it's turned out lovely. So this is how it is, it's just under actually it's about five and three quarters because those measurements worked best to get the most out of your card stock. And so this is how it looks it will fit into one of my box envelopes but you could also make a bouncy envelope if you may be giving it by hand that might be another option for you but you open it up and as you open it the whole thing opens up like this. Now yeah it's a larger card it's also a decoration I think if you just wanted to have this if I turn it this way that's how it looks so you might want to have this as a decorative piece for your own mantle and I think that would look really really nice. I have already seen somebody share on the mixed up crafters group because I made this during a Facebook live so a lot of the ladies there and men have been making this already and sharing their styles. Someone's put birthday, it's about the word birthday in the squares. Other people were saying about putting photos in there you could have this actually in a scrapbook that could be stuck to one of the pages and then they can pull out you know this page and have all these photos which I think would look really nice. Please don't be put off by this it's very very easy to make it's not it looks a lot more you know harder than it actually is but it's very very fun and I've thoroughly enjoyed doing this and it was really nice to colour and finish the decorations I didn't get around to doing all of that during the live because I just wanted to really focus on the construction. On the back there you have lots of room to be able to write your message and again it's one of those great ones for if you've got a work colleague who's leaving there's lots of people to sign you've got all the back there as well if you wanted to. So let me show you how to make it. Okay so for the stamping I've used the stamp set that comes in the latest issue of creative stamping in this issue 88 and it's this one here since the floral Christmas I have my own set this is another set that came so I actually done some of the inspiration in the magazine so you have this section here which is John next door stamps and then all of this here is floral Christmas so I've really used a lot of these stamps I've used the odd little flower but I've used the Ponsetti as there you can see and here and decorate the front it's a really pretty set it's A4 it's always good value for money and you get a lovely magazine and this one here was one of the cards that I done for the magazine which made it onto the front cover which I was super pleased about but you can just see this just an idea of some of the lovely cards you can create with that stamp set but I'll link all of that below for the main apertures I'm using the Daisy major stressed squares I don't believe these are available anymore that's my stamps so I just shrink mine down to fit into these little A5 pockets and then they fit within my little tubs that I have all my stamps in and for the embossing I've used the X-cut tartan knit again if I can find it I will link it so I've done lots of bits and pieces I've even stuck some of the mats and layers down just to speed up the video and just really show you how to construct it all so for the main card you're going to need two pieces that are 12 by five and three quarters and you're going to score along the long side at five and three quarters and eleven and a half and you're going to do that on two pieces okay so there's my two there we'll fold and burnish in a minute so you know you're doing it in the right direction then you'll want one piece that is six and a quarter by five and three quarters because we need to put stick this all together and along that six and a quarter side you just want to score it five and three quarters so you're just creating a half inch tab there and this piece here is just five and three quarters by five and three quarters okay so then for the mats and layers so to go inside I've got these here and I'm doing silver instead of white this time so I try that so these are five and a half for the silver by five and a half and then five and a quarter by five and a quarter for the embossed and you can see that tartan embossing folder looks really nice I've got three because this one's going to go on the front these two going on the inside and then for the back I've just got the white one which is where I'm going to stamp and that one is actually now you want it to be that but yeah do five and a half you can have five and a quarter if you want this up to you if you want to mat and layer it but I'm going to do I'll put another layer on that actually but yeah so you just want the same as those really four of each if you're going to do the back with the mats and layers and then for the actual concertina kind of interlock piece you'll want two pieces that are three and a quarter by ten and a quarter and you want to score along the long side at three and a quarter six and a half and nine and three quarters so that's the two pieces there and then you just want one piece that is again three and a quarter by six and a half and you're going to score along the long side of three and a quarter okay then for your mats and layers to decorate that interlock piece you'll want eight pieces of three by three and I've done the silver and then you'll want eight pieces of two and three-quarter by two and three-quarter and then I've just fussy cut a few bits here which is what I'm using to decorate the front because I didn't want to go too mad with the front because you don't see it when it's open although saying that if someone maybe doesn't have a huge amount of room or once you start getting more cards through the Christmas period they can still just kind of display it like so and so you do want there to still be some kind of nice feature on the front so I've kept it simple but still quite pretty and I've just prepared all of those ready so let me show you how to now construct the card okay so you want these two pieces here so these are the largest pieces where you would have scored at five and three-quarters and eleven and a half these ones here we want to cut the aperture out now I've used this one so you can have any aperture size that you want I've gone for three quarters of an inch squared with this one so any of your nest dies really you could do circular and you just need to make sure that the piece that interlocks through the apertures is going to be able to fit quite nicely and and kind of comfortably sit there but you could do rectangles in the five by seven version I do use rectangles that size fits better but for this one this is the size I've got and then with the Daisy May ones you get the next size up is this distressed kind of wonky one which is how I created the frame so I need to cut my frame so I show you that in a moment so what I'm doing because this is 216 GSM this is the Tonic Studios cardstock so I'm just going to fold and burnish that score line there and that one just folds in half and you'll have this half inch piece just over the top there so I'm going to sit this over the top and I'm going to grab some of my wash tape and I'm going to die cut through both of those layers at the same time so you may depend on your die cutter machine and the die it may just maybe mark the one underneath but then you can open up and then lay the die back down on that one and then die cut it again but at least then you know that it's exactly where you want it to be so I think I've got that about right but what I did do then is just go around and measure and I was coming in at 7 eighths of an inch on all four sides so I'm going to run that through my machine okay so I've got those two so when you open this one up it's going to attach to this hinge on this one here so I'm just going to fold this one towards me so that one will stick in like so and then on this end one here you're going to fold this one up you're going to have your five and three-quarter by five and three-quarter piece okay like so you want that fold this join to be on the back one because then you're just going to cover that with the way you kind of write your message on the front one here so that will be like so and then the front one when you fold this piece this is that five and three-quarters by six and a half piece so again just burnish that that one's going to stick in there so when we close the card up that join is hidden underneath so it looks like a nice clean front okay so we start sticking this together so start with this one first and I'm going to use my calow glue because it will start to strengthen the card so obviously we've cut a lot away we need to start kind of building some of that strength back in so when we have the frame that will bring in a lot of support again for the card as well so I'm just going to spread out that glue and then pop that one like so and if you kind of close the card as you fold them that way you know it's going to fold nice and flat as well as open up and you want that to just be see that I've got a really nice join a little bit of glue that's come out but that's okay and then you know that piece there is on the back you're not going to see that all right and then so right now you have that piece so then you'll have this hinge here to connect this next piece so again just going to open that one up and again just sit that one in there and let it get right down into the score line you want it to look like you know it's one big piece apart from obviously the joins being on the back but on the front you don't want that person that be looking at it kind of thinking wow it's just one long piece so again you can see I've gone right up into the corner it's hard to see now that that was ever two separate pieces so again just fold it all down so it's like a concertina and just kind of burnish you know that into position again and then fold that one so now we have this long piece so all we're left with now is this last tab and that five and three quarter piece which is going to stick on there and like I said you're going to have that there but we're going to cover that with the writing but again it's on the back so it's not going to be seen all the time so again just stick that one down and just fold it over like you did the other ones again you just want to make sure that it's right up into the crease there now you have your card okay apart from adding now that the interlock but there's the kind of framework okay and it should all fold down into that five and three-quarter size okay so I now want to create some frames because you want to kind of get that stuck down before we we need to because you won't be able to once you've added the next sections all of this part you won't be able to attach the frames so with the original square that I used I've then got this frame and this one I think was it's a hard one to kind of measure because you've it's all a bit uneven but it's roughly coming in at like four and three quarters yeah so have a look at what you've got but I basically going to sit that like so and then you want to attach it with some tape with a nice kind of even frame again mine's a little bit harder to do but you can get a rough idea it's going to be something like something like that I'm just going to pop some tape there and I'm now going to run that through using I think I'm going to do silver I'm going to use the silver here and if you can see here it's all this stitch detail it's actually come up quite nicely so I'm now going to die cut enough to cover this to frame this one this one this one and this one so four frames so I'm going to get them all die cut okay so there's my frames can you see all that detail look fantastic so next I'm going to now stick these on to the four apertures here so I'm going to again use my calau because this will start to strengthen it so I'm just going to lay it flat for a minute and I'm going to now stick them all down so they frame those squares okay so now I have my frames I think they look really nice in the silver so I'm going to pop that to one side and next we can work on this piece here so it's going to work in the same kind of way but what you want to have so you've got your two here and you should have three squares that are three and a quarter squared and then you'll have a half inch piece on the end here so what's going to happen is you want to do a valley and then a mountain and then that will be a valley okay then with this one you want to do a mountain valley mountain okay because that is going to stick into that one this one here is going to attach to the front it's going to be this one here so it's going to be that front piece here alright so you do want to fold them just slightly differently so that one will be valley mountain valley this one will be mountain valley mountain so I'm going to pop my glue in this one here and just again just attach it exactly the same way that you did with the main frame I'm just going to fold that over and then with this one at the end so have it like so this one you just want to create a valley fold and you're now going to add glue to the side of this because it's a mountain and I attach that one and then this one will stick at the other end so you want to make sure you just got two flat pieces with a valley folds there's a valley fold at that end there's a valley fold at this end here okay now I'm going to decorate this before I stick it in there because I think it's easier to do so that's when I'm going to now stick these pieces down I have done them the same as this one so I'm just going to open this one up here so you can see what we've got so let's just move it down a little bit that way there we go you can see everything now so I'm going to have my Mary and bright my mistletoe a pensettia then the piece on earth and then the just for you and that one finishes with the wishing you that one then is the pensettia and then that's one I've got facing that way and that one's facing that way so I'm going to stick those all down now okay so that's that now I'm going to just concertina fold it all together so you've got like a little book just squash it all down it should you can see that my nicely all lays over each other so you know everything's all lined up so then we can now attach it to this piece so what we want to do is you're going to basically first of all actually before we do that you want to stick these mats and layers down so that one needs to go there and this one is going to go at that end so I'm going to just quickly stick those down so now make sure this is the right way up so I'm going to pop my glue on this side here and then you want to sit this one in the middle of this here now if you close up some of these and you can use that as your guide so make sure it's in the center of that frame okay and then that should also be the center of there because of the way that you know you would have measured and lined it up so I'm just going to make sure that's straight there I'm happy with how that sits there and then you want to add glue to this side and then you're just going to close your card I'm going to give it a few minutes just to kind of grip but I will still have a little bit of time to move it around so once I open it I can double check you know in case I do need to just move it slightly reposition it just a little bit there but it's it's still going to work and close nicely like it does so now you can open it up and you have your card isn't that lovely I think it looks so nice with the silver this time really really like it I've also got my Posca pen I should have maybe done that before I put this in because I've put some stitch detail you see here I've got some faux stitching I'm probably going to do that and I just use the paint pen here this is the white Posca pen and I'll do that but now I'm just going to close that back up again finish the front so I've got this one pop that one on there and then I've got these pieces here so I've got my glue gun on let's pop that one and then I'm just going to feed in these bits and pieces there we go just a really simple design I'm actually going to bring in some of my sparkle pen I'm probably going to put some glitter on this actually and I'm going to use the Nuvo drops on the berries so you'll see that in the photos because that will take a little bit longer to dry but I think I'm going to put some glitter throughout the card actually I think that look really nice and then on the back I've just got this one here so again if you want to add mats and layers to it you can but so much going on on the card I'm just going to keep this one like so and then I'll stamp my message later and that will just strengthen that card as well okay so there is the finished card so let me open up this one so you can see it with the the green and the red just pop it so you can see it and then this one here nice with that silver border and then again look at that I think they look fantastic I'm so pleased with these there's such big cards they really are great showstoppers so yeah I'm going to put some glitters I think on the on the petals there just so this really does shine and like I said I think it's a lovely mantle piece as well as a decoration not just a card so yeah that is my double interlock concertina card and I hope you enjoy it I'll add it to the showstopper playlist so if you're new to the channel check out that playlist because there are lots of other big showstopper cards they're great for those special birthdays big anniversaries and Christmas and things like that so yeah check them out you might enjoy them I'll also link the 5x7 version here along with maybe another concertina style card or something that 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Hey Rob doc amazing talk. The science was great, but really the pertinent question here. What's your friend time? The answer is I don't know But I do play around with that stuff. I have a concept to row in my garage And I do partake of those sort of protocols and enjoy them immensely I Do love CrossFit I love their sense of life and I love Love the Metcon aspect of it in particular. I love to lay on the floor gasping It's just part of me. It's what I do


Good local time everyone. I'm Audrey Tang, power's digital minister in charge of social innovation, open government and youth engagement. It is my great pleasure to attend the 6th Taiwan Indonesia Higher Education Virtual Forum and share with you some thoughts on globalization, on the new normal, and on digital transformation. And first, let's talk about globalization. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc around the globe in 2020 and 2021. Well, the coronavirus is likely to follow us well into 2022. People around the globe will keep looking to effective ways to cope with the shared challenges that we experience. Although it might seem frightening that borders no longer provide the kind of protection that we need to keep us safe in the physical world, we will see an explosion of opportunities in the digital world, opportunities relating to the formation of a global neighborhood. As the erosion of the traditional concepts of countries, nations and states accelerates in the digital world, the idea of neighborhoods based on shared values is flourishing. We have already seen examples in the past couple years, such as the hashtag Milk Tea Alliance. This is a collaboration of pro-democracy citizens that originated from a meme, depicting many jurisdictions around East Asia, holding up their respective popular drinks, such as Taiwanese bubble tea, in solidarity. Well, 2022 will see continued evolution toward a generation where distance is no longer measured in meters, but rather in terms of the experiences one shares in common with other people and other groups. Global neighborhoods will also bring changes to the ways norms are established. Indeed, we will find ourselves in a world where the establishment of social norms is no longer monopolized by governments or multilateral organizations. Decentralized, non-political, non-state actors will play critical roles in this. Taiwan's digital democracy can be seen as a precursor in this regard. At the country's online platform, join the GOV.tw, anyone can file a petition. There is no need to be affiliated with any particular political party. Twice a month, petitions that gather 5,000 signatures are met with face-to-face collaborative meetings across related ministries to explore ways to incorporate them into policymaking. And in this way, even those who are too young to vote, or the foreign immigrants, non-citizens, they can nevertheless have a way to start a movement and set a social norm. Now technology will be used even more widely to facilitate crowdsourced policymaking. Governance motives, based on what I call people-public-private partnerships, are said to be the key to government transformation. The creation of Taiwan's mask mugs showed people early on in the pandemic when masks were available by scarce in stores. And meanwhile, SMS-based contact tracing and online vaccination appointment systems resulted from collaboration incorporating open data from social sector platforms in our governmental department and private sector companies thrived. So with the rediscovery of those civic infrastructures on the digital realm, I think civic tech will unify opinions that are currently dispersed throughout society and transform them into a motivational force for creative policymaking. And this will be even more important as we understand the need for our social, political and economic strategies to adapt very frequently in response to ever-mutating viruses. An alliance forged between the government, the social sector and the private sector will thus be in place to meet the diverse needs of the population in the shortest possible time. So in 2022 we will see a continued emphasis on swift and safe technologies to bring about such broad participation. And here universities serve not only the basic functions of supporting academic research or talent cultivation, but also enhance this cultural awareness, serve the society to promote cross-sectoral sustainable developments. Indeed in the past four years, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan made tremendous contributions through its higher education cultivation project. While fulfilling social responsibility is one of its four major goals, the core values of the USR projects are the local connections and talent cultivation, which provides university with a citizen-oriented approach and a focus on assisting in solving societal challenges with humanistic concerns. So I'm really glad to see universities in Taiwan actively assisting in urban and rural education development in enhancing regional and local contributions and to innovate in terms of the industrial, cultural and sustainable developments. On topics of shared global urgency, such as climate, pandemic or the infodemic, I'm sure that allies of the same mind will step up and work together to build a resilient global neighborhood. Now let's talk about new normal. In this age of social media and flourishing online technologies, this information can spread like a biological virus, it goes viral. In pluralistic democracies such as Taiwan, this information pose a particularly complex challenge, because anyone armed with a smartphone and basic editing tools can take part in its dissemination, and that truly defines the new normal for many people around the world. Prior to the pandemic, though, Taiwan had already been cited as the country most exposed to disinformation operations, aiming to destabilize our democracy, society and governmental institutions in order, I guess, to impose a certain brand of authoritarianism. For example, during the anti-elab protests in Hong Kong, a trending message in 2019 made its rounds across Taiwan's social media landscape, attempting to portray the Hong Kong protesters as so-called rioters who allegedly repaid some $20 million to murder members of the police. That, of course, was a gross misrepresentation of the protesters' mission. However, the intention of the campaign was clear, is to lessen the influence of the anti-elab movement on the Taiwanese presidential election. While the message was actually trending early on Taiwanese social media, because the citizens in Hong Kong would have easily seen through this veil of disinformation. So the message was not meant for a Hong Kong audience, but for a Taiwanese audience. According to Taiwan Fact Check Center, this piece of disinformation was traced back to a Weibo account named Chang Anjian. They had created the original fabrication by misusing a rioter's photo. Attempting to paint the image is a depiction of teenage protesters engaging in some violent activity simply over the purchase of some iPhones. And then the second level remixed us, then built on the image by creating more supporting narratives. In Taiwan, we take a notice and public notice approach, so citizens who share the initial message soon discovered the origin of the fabrication through fact-checking labels. And this successful attempt did counter that wave of viral disinformation by building immunity's vaccination of the mind. Taiwan faces such disinformation campaigns on a daily, indeed hourly basis. And this trend had been further exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic as part of our new normal now. And indeed, as the pandemic swept across the globe, anxiety has stoked the flames of disinformation. And we have seen the challenges posed by pandemic-related disinformation ultimately leading to the so-called infodemic as the World Health Organization causes. Again, in Taiwan, instead of using any top-down centralized initiatives to fight the ongoing infodemic, we employ a decentralized, citizen-centered approach. During the pandemic, we adopted what I call the fast, fair, and fun approach and a humor-over-rumor tactic to combat coronavirus disinformation, which gives the public ample room to laugh at non-factual information. A fun example is that in Taiwan, we have a very cute dog, a Shiba Inu, the name is Zongchai, who translates all of the information published by the daily press conference of the Central Epidemic Monsanto or CECC. For example, for physical distancing, we have a picture that said, if you're outdoor, please keep two cute dogs away, and if you're indoors, keep three dogs away from one another.  And so, I believe such viral humor, not only to disseminate science, but also to neutralize and disarm disinformation is fighting fire with fire as it were. And the logic behind the strategy is very simple. Any approach that begins with governmental censorship face extensive resistance, because in a pluralistic democracy, any communication from a state that looks like a takedown or a censorship is simply a political non-starter. And therefore, we need to think of innovative ways to outrun and outpace the conspiracy theorists and disinformation campaigns. Most disinformation is motivated by outrage, which is one of the most viral emotions. But outrage often leads to revenge, to discrimination, to the beginning of hate speech, rendering people's capacity for empathy null and void. And when people start sharing stories with mindless abandon, then we have the real problem of an infodemic on our hands. So because of this, as I mentioned, we need to vaccinate ourselves against this virus of the mind. We now realize that humor has a very high R value and has the capacity to spread even more dramatically than outrage, as proven quite effectively in Taiwan. So far, we have succeeded in containing the infodemic without censorship and without any top-down takedowns. And personally, I believe a single piece of disinformation cannot get everybody enraged if people are competent in critical and creative thinking. It is just like biodiversity. It's harder to find a biological virus that can take hold if there is ample biodiversity in the ecosystem. And the same idea holds for democracy. So in Taiwan, in both basic and higher education, we'll put an emphasis on media competence, metisuya, instead of just media literacy or metisidu.  And the government of Taiwan has incorporated media competence into the basic training modules, not just for educators, but also for governmental and personnel in public service in a variety of ways. For example, the Ministry of Education established a media competence education promotion committee, which convenes once every four months to review and formulate such policies. And we are putting efforts in building related core competencies among students. For example, the middle school students can and do fact check the three presidential candidates during their platform and debate. This has been included in various capstone projects, trainings, workshops and seminars for educational and governmental personnel. Instead of a standard answer-based education system, we are now looking to incorporate more life-long lessons in media production, in newsroom operations, such that the citizens can see themselves as contributors, not just consumers, to journalism, compared to censorship and takedowns, I believe, that this is a longer-lasting solution or vaccine to the ongoing disinformation crisis. Taiwan's resolve to combat the new normal of online disinformation stems from our grounding as one of Asia's most open societies. In addition, I would also say that Taiwan takes freedom of speech extremely seriously, regarding it as a right that cannot be traded in any shape or in any form. So, even in the face of a global pandemic and infodemic, Taiwan ranked the fifth in the world and first in Asia in the most recent Freedom on the Nets 2021 report published by Freedom House in September. And I believe that the reason behind this achievement is our vibrant online landscape supported by meaningful and affordable internet access and independent judiciary that protects that expression and the administration that has worked to make its system and policy rationale as transparent as possible to our researchers and citizens. So when it comes to disarm disinformation again, we do not believe that a centralized and opaque approach is the reliable answer. To prevent its further dissemination, disinformation is verified and clarified through the people-public-private partnerships. We have established a governmental mechanism that offers immediate and effective clarification and mutual independent third-party fact-checkers and media self-regulation mechanisms to complete the pieces of this puzzle. Another example is the GZeroV or GovZero Civic Technologies community. Its co-facts project invites citizens to engage in open collaboration and work together to identify disinformation developing such as a line chatbot to offer real-time fact-checks. Other mechanisms of the notice and public notice involves consultation by experts such as the Tower Fact-Check Center which is accredited back in 2018 as a third-party fact-checker by the international fact-checking network. In a sense, the new normal of disinformation is just a symptom of a larger disease. It's a result of a lack of trust among the people but also between the governments and our citizens. In Taiwan, we deeply embrace democracy, humanity, openness and freedom of speech. With these core values, we can create a friendly environment for collective and connective intelligence and social innovation. So, as researchers and educators, I believe we need to intensify our efforts in this partnership. Now that we know there is a way to augment the transparency in our communication and give our scientific knowledge a higher basic transmission rate. And now digital transformation. What does digital transformation mean? Well, before the pandemic and the infodemic, many business leaders may answer this question by quoting the Olympic motto, digital transformation is faster, higher and stronger. But now, today, we should say, well, it's faster, higher, stronger together after the International Olympic Committee's decision to include together as an expression of unity. Indeed, the same motto applies to the field of digital transformation. In the past, to strive for faster, higher and stronger tech, many countries did their utmost to offer the most advanced facilities, services to develop the most cutting-edge technologies and to nurture high-tech unicorns. But more and more, countries are discovering that digital governance policies and promotions are like the Olympic spirit. It's not just about nurturing metalists, but also about bringing citizens together. Our president, Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, announced a platform of Digital Nation Smart Island during her election campaign. In 2017, our cabinet launched a Digital Nation and Innovative Economic Development Program. After her successful re-election, the plan was upgraded recently to Smart Taiwan 2030 this year. With the vision of a smart nation of innovation, inclusion and sustainability by 2030. And this vision of Smart Taiwan 2030 reveals a renewed commitment for digital governance policy to be pluralistic and inclusive with sustainable development at its goal. And this means that it is no longer the case that the government is just formulating policies from the top down, dictating new development paths for industries or directing people to new public services. But rather, we must be receptive to building ecosystems of people-public-private partnerships to address problems guided by the needs of our citizens. Well, some people may wonder how to cater to the needs of the members of the public in our diverse and also rapidly evolving society and whether problems may arise as some issues are prioritized over others. But we just need to look back at the history of digital development. We can see that the Internet was not created by a single organization, nor by a single country setting standards. It's actually by the citizens of the Internet of all stripes scattered around the world working together to establish a network that connects people to each other. And on this shared system, the Internet pioneers engaged in an iterative problem-solving process of inventing new protocols according to their own needs before gradually forming the Internet as we now know it. Of course, the Internet is now indispensable for social, economic and political activity in every corner of the world, and it's still in a constant stage of evolution as the needs of the citizens change. And indeed, in the pluralistic society, citizens' needs are ever shifting. And regardless of whether governments are willing to address them well, there will always be people willing to tackle new problems with their own digital social innovations. So a smart national governance policy for digital transformation should not be designed to dominate or prohibit those civic tech attempts, but to find ways to align with them, which I believe is the first aspect of digital governance. It's about alignment. As I mentioned when the pandemic struck last year, masks, the most essential personal protective equipment, were in short supply, and our government had to adopt a real-name registration system for rationing out those masks. And everyone wanted to know where to buy them, and the mask-map applications quickly appeared. Now the government did not discourage such grassroots efforts, but instead we released addresses of pharmacy-selling masks and the real-time inventory, the number of masks they had in stock through open data, keeping the apps up to date every 30 seconds. And in less than a week, more than 100 different applications for mask availability were developed by citizens from all walks of life, with a wide range of configurations for use, for example a chatbot on the messaging app line, for example voice assistants for the people with seeing difficulties. In other words, an alliance was forged between aligned parties, government-specific technologists, and the pharmacists in the private sector. It allowed us to meet the diverse needs of the largest possible swath of the population in the shortest possible time. And this year, when Taiwan was hit by the wave of infections in May, the Central Epidemic Monsanto issued a nationwide Level 3 alert. And this alert required contact information to be supplied when entering and leaving public venues to facilitate quick contact tracing and exposure notifications should not be needed. However, the long queues for registration with pen and pencil or paper at each shop can be both time-consuming and also counterproductive in terms of virus prevention. Measures as their weight increases while these will make the exposure time in public longer, so people began discussing solutions. Many businesses introduced their own innovations for registration, and from these discussions and the apps developed by the private sector, the government was able to tell what was working and what was not. And the social sector, GovZero, again, contributed an SMS-based check-in system in the shortest possible time in just three days. Now, the 1922 toll-free SMS system was not mandated by the central government. Purely through voluntary adoption, it soon became part of people's lives. GovZero's innovative design proved invaluable. Simply scan the QR code using the built-in camera in your smartphone, there's no app download required, and send a toll-free text message to 1922. Not only is this convenient, but it also addresses many of the concerns of the public. What if my phone doesn't have internet access? Well, a SMS will suffice. What if I don't have a mobile phone? Well, other people can check in on your behalf, and you can still choose to write your contact information down on paper.  Well, it is stored within the telecom company providing the phone service. It's not transmitted to any central database. And it can only be accessed by contact tracers. Anyone can request a full reverse audit of accesses to their own records, and the information is deleted after 28 days. So all these privacy and cybersecurity considerations are reflected in the second aspect of digital transformation, accountability. Accountability to its people's minds at ease, as it inspires confidence that digital services will do what they say they will in ways that do not compromise the rise of the citizens. And that is precisely why personal data protection and cybersecurity are becoming increasingly important in digital transformation. And moreover, accountability proactively can ensure that improvements are made on a rolling basis as new challenges arise. For example, a judge found that evidence in a criminal investigation included some wiretap data from the 192 to SMS system, and questioned its legality. Of course, he didn't sign the search warrants. And following such discussions, the Ministry of Justice concluded that SMS check-ins does not constitute a communication and should not be accessed as per the Communication Security and Surveillance Act. So our mobile network operators and judicial authorities have now been preparing measures to rule out 192 SMS from law enforcement or surveillance. So following this interpretation, specific measures have been taken by the telecom companies to preclude communication surveillance system from accessing any related data to contact tracing. So as a part of digital transformation strategy, I believe this sort of accountability is both, of course, to allay concerns and provide peace of mind, but it's also active in a sense that it makes the results of people or public-private partnerships an accountable reality. For example, our presidential hackathon, which is entering its fourth year, also serves as an opportunity for the public sector to give an account, to include the social and private sectors to work together and come up with innovative ways to use data across sectors so that we can solve the social and environmental problems together. Although this annual event of presidential hackathon does not offer price money, the systems designed by winning teams are a short government promotion. The team members are invited to be part of our government initiatives and the assistance from the government is offered to find opportunities also for commercial application. And as Taiwan's digital minister, what digital transformation means foremost to me is stimulation of social innovation by increasing the connections between people through technology. In other words, the emphasis is on alignment and accountability, where good ideas are taken seriously and partners can be sought out to work together, establishing a virtual cycle that leads to innovative, inclusive, and sustainable digital development. To put it in another way, only when citizens from different sectors, fields, and roles join forces can our digital development be faster, faster, higher, and stronger together. To conclude, I would like to share with you my own job description about digital transformation when I joined the cabinet in 2016 as Taiwan's first digital minister. It goes like this. When we see Internet of Things, let's make it an Internet of Beings. When we see virtual reality, let's make it a shared reality. When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. When we see user experience, let's make it about human experience. And whenever we hear that a singularity is near, let us always remember the plurality is here. Thank you for listening. Live long and prosper.