Focusing on key issues pertaining to Taiwan's sustainable development, discussion of proposals for breaking through current dilemmas are held in the form of a public of a public forum. young leaders, top research teams, and social practitioners will be the panelists of the forum to advocate rational discussion and collaborative action.
Disaster of Taiwan's "Bilingual Nation 2030"： An All-Lose Dinosaur Policy
The incumbent administration is strongly pushing for the “Bilingual Nation 2030” policy, which requires all levels of schools to quickly move towards the goal of “using English as the teaching language for all subjects”. From sports, music to social studies, science, and mathematics, no subject will be spared. This policy has not only caused widespread misery in the teaching field but will also seriously harm the country’s language and true competitiveness. This will be a national security-level disaster because competitiveness is not “English ability”, but thinking ability, knowledge foundation, and creativity, and these conditions can only be obtained through proficient use of the local language. How can we stop this erroneous policy that is about to cause Taiwan’s education to collapse and its future to be worrying?
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The Impact and Challenges of Generative AI
ChatGPT has caused a sensation around the world, drawing high attention to the breakthrough development of “generative artificial intelligence”. In the future, AI robots will be able to create new content, from songs, paintings, poetry, novels, to news reports, copywriting, marketing analysis, and school assignments, all of which can be easily produced. The enhancement of search engine retrieval efficiency has also triggered comprehensive competition in related industries. This development seems to bring many conveniences, but it is also full of various hidden dangers.
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Impact of Military Service System Reform： How Long Should Young People Serve？ How Should the Military Prepare for War？
Taiwan has undergone several changes in the duration of military service for conscripts since 2004. It was originally two years of compulsory military service, which was then shortened to one year. Later, with the “recruitment parallel” system, conscripts were changed to the current four-month military training service. However, due to the rapid deterioration of cross-strait relations in recent years, the government has reportedly intended to change the four-month military training service to one or two years of compulsory military service.
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Virtual World, Real People：Reflections on Human Rights in the Metaverse
The “Metaverse” wave is rising, virtual reality is constantly innovating, wearable devices are combined with personal life applications, and they have officially entered our private space and public domain, collecting a large amount of personal biological characteristics and behavioral data. Our privacy rights are being violated silently.
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Democracy Under the Rampage of Cyber-Armies
The core expectation of democracy is that people can make rational choices based on correct information. To realize this expectation, one of the basic engineering projects of democracy in institutional design is media diversity and openness, which is not controlled by the government or any political party, to protect freedom of speech and the space for public forums. Therefore, the media is often referred to as the “fourth power”, responsible for defending the people’s right to know the “truth”.
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Breaking Free from Iron Cage Referendums: What Kind of Referendum System Do We Need？
The Referendum Act, which has been implemented since 2004, was ridiculed by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party as a “birdcage referendum” due to its high passage threshold. After the Democratic Progressive Party took power, in 2017, the Referendum Act was revised to significantly lower the threshold. However, due to the defeat of the Democratic Progressive Party-supported referendum in the 2018 local elections, the Referendum Act was revised again in 2019 to decouple referendums from elections and significantly restrict the people’s right to hold referendums. This year, Democratic Progressive Party legislators have proposed further amendments to the Referendum Act, attempting to completely kill off referendum results supported by most of the people by allowing a minority to veto the majority.
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Is the Labor Insurance Fund about to go bankrupt？How can we save it？
According to the 2019 actuarial report on the labor insurance fund, “If the labor insurance is not reformed, it will go bankrupt in 2026!” Once the labor insurance goes bankrupt, it will affect more than 10 million insured people nationwide. The 1.5 million retired workers who currently receive labor insurance pensions will suddenly lose their economic security, and the consequences are unimaginable.
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Preventing the Government from Abusing Digital Tools: A Case Study of Digital ID Cards
A digital identification card can combine a variety of digital information, which seems to provide great convenience, but there are also hidden concerns of government surveillance and information leakage.
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Cooperation on Local Rejuvenation in Asia
In recent years, “local rejuvenation” has been promoted in full swing. <br /> It is worth considering how to connect Taiwan’s experience in local rejuvenation with important locations like Japan, Malaysia, and mainland China, so as to create a vision that breaks through existing frameworks of thinking and explore the prospects of international cooperation.<br />
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Government in a New Era: Financial Deregulation and Capital Market Revival Movement
Why did Taiwanese startups flee the foreign market? How difficult is it to go public in Taiwan? How can small and medium-sized enterprises rise again in the post-pandemic era?
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