Taiwan has been ranked as the second-safest country in the world, according to a 2020 mid-year crime index released by global database Numbeo. Many of the things you lost can be found. How did Taiwan do it? Many cities started use IoT as a way of building a safer city, but is this necessary? What are the risks?

Eating sea lettuce or injecting disinfectant won’t prevent you from getting COVID-19. Holding your breath for ten seconds is not a test for SARS-CoV-2. And Russian President Vladimir Putin did not release 500 lions in Moscow to persuade the city’s residents to stay indoors as part of the efforts to fight the pandemic. The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has been accompanied by what the World Health Organization has described as a “massive infodemic”.

Taiwan did extremely well in the fight on Covid-19, and one of the key reason is that Taiwan has a highly technologize government and citizens that are willing to contribute. How did they achieve that? The story goes back to one of their social movements.