Save our future.

Good morning everyone, 
today I am going to talk about how to share knowledge for "saving our future".

My objectives are to differentiate between the new global relations
from the mere collaboration that was done before and to show
how our new strategy can work in both Taiwan and Japan.
My key message is that we should build up a daily exchange environment
and use the effective sensor developed by Japan
in order to prevent natural disasters, like earthquakes,
from wreaking so much havoc / from harming so many people.
We have three items on our agenda.

First, daily communication around the world, the secondly,
an important success factor is the sharing of technology,
finally, international natural disaster volunteering.
Let's begin with daily communication around the world.
As I was about to say,
we have had a lot of success in hosting international collaborative events,
like the World Youth Meeting and the Asian Students Exchange
that we attended today.
We could improve our English communication abilities as well as learn to use new technology,
the internet or Digital Cameras to share the needed information.
Please look at the video clip of how we collaborated and achieved success in the event.

As you can see, we have already achieved the first step to become a person who
can communicate on daily basis.
When we consider earthquakes or some other natural disasters,
we need daily communication to face such occasions whenever they occur.
I would like to suggest to you that after achieving success in these kinds of international collaborative projects,
we should keep up our communication on a daily basis to be able to be prepared
in case of natural disasters.

That brings us to the rapid information sharing and the ability to provide aid quickly to each country.
I have now covered daily communication.
Now, let's move on to the technology regarding earthquakes
that we could share and which Japan has been developing.

Please look at this figure.
This figure shows the location of earthquake sensors
which are meant to prevent damage from that.
The sensors are allocated above the Hawaii islands and near Papua New Guinea.

In order to get a quick response and correct data,
they use optical fibre lines using "Ocean-Bottom seismometers",
it is accounted for at more than 1000 points.
We can share this wonderful equipment.
While collecting data we could send warnings about
how big TSUNAMI will hit the coast of Taiwan or Indonesia immediately.
The better the technology is developed, the wider the sense of safety will spread in the future.
We can surely save the future with technology.

Let's move on to the final topic of international natural volunteering.
This has been a good support for each country,
the sending of rescue volunteers to countries where a disaster occurred.
Japan and Taiwan send rescue groups to help the victims
in China's earthquake and to help the Tsunami victims in Indonesia.
These pictures show their activities in those countries.
We admire their spirit. But it is a bit of a pity
that it took a few days to send such a group.
My suggestion is that we need to organize these international volunteer groups at each fire station
or military camp to enable quicker response times to the damaged area. 

In closing, let's summarize briefly my key points.
First, I went over the necessity of daily communication.
Then, I presented information about the technology being used today,
the ocean-bottom seismometer.
Finally I described the nuts and bolts of international volunteering. 
I hope I've convinced you 
that we need to devote ourselves to a new perspective focusing
on international daily communication, technology and a new style of volunteering.
I also hope I was clear on how this can be done.
Thanks a lot for your time and I'll take your questions now