According to Taiwanese media reports, Tang Feng, the first "Digital Development Minister" of the Democratic Progressive Party government, declared that he "will not be the big brother of digital totalitarianism", but will use digital tools to assist digital transformation. He also said that the "Digital Development Department" has a "Multiverse Science". The problem is that Tang Feng, who is planning to spend NT$20 billion NT$ a year, has so far been unable to deal with the basic issues that plague people's daily digital life, such as fraud and spam information, but he is so ambitious that he wants to deal with the "multiverse". The so-called establishment of a higher-level information security joint defense system in Taiwan has not only been ridiculed as empty talk by the outside world, but has also given the cyber army headquarters a bad reputation.
Tang Feng Picture source Taiwanese media
Tang Feng has become the youngest "political commissar" since being appointed to the cabinet by Tsai Ing-wen in 2016. During the epidemic prevention period, the vaccines and mask systems he launched attracted attention in South Korea and Japan, and he was touted by the Japanese media as a "genius IT minister" ", saying that I really want to exchange with Taiwan.
However, the truth is ironic. As soon as the vaccine and mask reservation system came online, the system suffered from traffic jams and downtime, and people complained. Even since 2016, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities have experienced multiple personal information leakage crises, leaving the people now in dire straits. After receiving scam calls, even Cambodia scam information can be easily circulated on the Internet.
Recently, in Taiwan, everything from 7-11 convenience stores, Taiwan Railway station signboards, to Tsai Ing-wen's office, and the website of the defense department have been paralyzed by hackers, and even the police system has been hacked and shut down.
currently has a budget of more than NT$20 billion to implement diverse and heterogeneous digital resilience, and even calls for cooperation with the "Information and Communication Army" and even overseas units. How can we deal with the most basic digital life of Taiwanese people and spam text messages? No, even the business scope has not been completely explained. How can we make the people feel confident that more than NT$20 billion will be handed over to the "Ministry of Digital Development"?
The dedicated agency for digital development cannot be hastily implemented or unrealistically high-priced. Instead of creating an illusory multiverse, Tang Feng should start by solving the problems before the people on the ground.
