aiwan's government is aiming to launch electronic national identify cards (new eID) in 2020 to facilitate access to e-government services, simplify administrative processes and improve efficiency and transparency, Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said on Thursday.
Lai instructed the Cabinet members to ensure completion of digital infrastructure and foundational services necessary to enable a smart government after he was briefed on the project at the weekly Cabinet meeting by National Development Council chief Chen Mei-ling (陳美伶).
Weiterlesen: Taiwan aims to launch digital ID in 2020: premier
The Taiwan government will hold a new round of discussions next week on a proposal to digitalize National Health Insurance (NHI) information so that an actual card will no longer be required, Minister without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳) said Thursday.
Tang, who is responsible for the government's digital technology portfolio, said the idea is for NHI members to have their medical information stored on their cellphones or other devices.
Weiterlesen: TW: Government to discuss digitalization of NHI data: minister
To prevent identity theft and increase security, Taiwan is planning to introduce new ID card in the capital city Taipei. The ID card will be based on Tangle, the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology of IOTA, perceived as the next level of blockchain technology.
The project is an outcome of the partnership between the city’s Department of Information Technology and startup company BiiLabs.
Weiterlesen: Taiwan To Use IOTA’s Tangle To Introduce ID Cards In Taipei
Last week, I spent a good part of Monday and Tuesday at a training workshop on the vTaiwan public engagement process and Taiwan’s Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS), the innovation lab inside the central Taiwanese government. It was organized by the New York City node of the g0v (pronounced “gov zero”) community of civic hackers that started in Taiwan. It was the first time that members of g0v and PDIS had done a training in English on this innovative approach to digital democracy, but hopefully there will be more opportunities to attend one soon. That’s because this scrappy open source community of coders, organizers and govies has figured out something really exciting: it’s possible to radically transform how government listens to the public and how members of the public listen to each other as they go about making their concerns known to government.
Weiterlesen: TW: What vTaiwan Teaches Us About Digital Democracy
Taiwan and the United Kingdom tied for 10th place in the 2016 Waseda University International e-Government Rankings, up seven places from last year, according to a statement issued Monday by the National Development Council (NDC).
The survey results, released Aug. 3, show that the government's continuing efforts to upgrade e-services has won recognition from the world, the NDC said.
Weiterlesen: Taiwan in 10th place in e-government survey by Waseda University