So hi Audrey, thank you so much for taking the time today. I was wondering if you could give us some of your thoughts around the ideas of the impact of digital technologies and its meaning for the nation state. Yeah, of course. I think there are three fundamental assumptions challenged by digital technologies from the original Westphalian ideas of nation state. First is that of border crossing when I appeared in the UNI. PDF In Geneva a few years ago I appeared as a robot and spoke on the record. Now did the robot actually cross any borders? That probably is a moot question because there are many iPad and screens in the UN Geneva place and any can play me. And of course people can say they're just watching a movie. But it was recorded a second ago and I was in Taipei and so on. But it it totally doesn't matter because there was no borders crossed. So there was nothing stopping me from speaking in an official, uh, ONUN meeting on the record, something that probably has not happened for a very long time for a official in Taiwan. So this is a first about border. The second is about proximity. Now, as you know, Taiwan is many islands and we rely on not just subsea cables, but increasingly also non geostationary orbit satellites. For example, the SES global for a mid orbit and one web for the low orbit. Now when we use those systems, we become like neighbours to the friends in for example Asia Pacific, the smaller islands or any of the islands in the Caribbean or anywhere that uses the same satellite systems. I don't just mean that we use the same system. So our service. Security can be shared, although that's true also, but also literally when we talk to each other, the latency is lower and we see each other more clearly because we use the same satellite system and so it reconfigures the neighborhood. It used to be that your neighbors are fixed depending on your places on the earth, but now it also depends on your subsea cables, your microwave connections and your satellite configuration and your values if you have the same. Values about trusted data flow. If you have the same values about privacy that also give you a different configuration of neighborhood and 3rd it also challenges this exclusive membership. For example, I am a Palau digital resident and the Palau government recognize me because they validated my photo ID using some web 3 technology. I registered my Etherium wallet and is Etherium. In this case, a notary, is it an international organization, is it a judge? Or maybe none of this, but nevertheless it is used as a way to give me an extra digital residency. I am also a Lithuanian E resident and for Taiwan we give Gold card, which is not just three-year of residency, but real benefits like healthcare if you contribute to the Internet, to GitHub, Wikipedia or the Commons for eight years. You become a also Taiwanese resident. Now if you stay for like 5 years, not physically stay, you don't have to physically stay. If you mentally stay for five years anywhere on the planet and you want to vote, we can also write you a recommendation letter and you become a Taiwanese citizen. You can vote, but you don't have to give up your original passport. You become a also Taiwanese, right? So it also challenges the previously exclusive idea of citizenship. Where you have to live in the same place for a very long time in order to be a citizen. This time you just need to contribute to the Internet for long enough and identify with the Taiwanese nations culture. And then you maybe speak a little bit of our national languages, which there were 20, and then you become also a Taiwanese. So to recap, the border crossing is challenged because my image can be in many places at the same time. Proximity is challenged because the data policy, the connectivity configuration give us different neighborhood. And finally, exclusivity is challenged because one can just by contributing to open source becoming a also Taiwanese.
