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  • Taiwan: Middle school implements e-health system

    Taipei Municipal Ren-ai Junior High School has implemented an e-health system that makes it easy for students to register for an appointment, reduces work for the nursing staff and keeps track of frequently occurring illnesses and injuries.

    Yang Chang-hsun, secretary of the school’s development center, said there are over 2,800 people involved with the institution. On average, about 100 of them go for an appointment at the Health Center during any given week. When a holiday has displaced the clinic hours, demand can rise, as was the case with 164 students being seen Oct. 26.

  • Taiwan: Ministry of National Defense develops new multi-function Web site

    Following a government drive to establish a sophisticated e-government network, the Ministry of National Defense has developed a new multi-function Web site that offers enhanced administrative efficiency, a military official said yesterday.

    Cheng Jheng-chi, a commissioner from the archives department of the MND, said the MND had, under advice from the Executive Yuan, employed non-government organizations to improve its Web site content.

  • Taiwan: MOE encourages use of new IC cards

    On June 1, 2003, the Ministry of the Interior started converting personal ID cards into IC cards. On August 7, the Ministry of Economic Affairs started doing the same for licenses of business enterprises, their branches, and factories.

    The Bureau of Labor Insurance has also called on business enterprises to apply for the IC cards and use the online system through the BLI Web site. The old ID cards may be used until their expiration date.

  • Taiwan: RDEC rates government Web sites on excellence

    The ministries of Finance, Justice, and Economic Affairs, as well as the Environmental Protection Administration, the National Palace Museum, and the Taipei Municipal Government have been rated as maintaining and running the best Web sites among all agencies at the Central Government levels.

  • Taiwan: RDEC to honor Web sites and public service

    Executive Yuan to present awards today

    The awarding ceremony for the fifth Executive Yuan Service Quality Award and 2003 Web sites Competition of Administrative Organizations will be held today at the Guoguang Hall of the Chinese Petroleum Corp. Building at Sungren Rd. Hosted by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, the awarding ceremony seeks to boost the service quality of government organizations.

  • Taiwan: Research, Development & Evaluation Commission continues enhancing government service

    The Research, Development & Evaluation Commission (RDEC) aims to continue upgrading government service quality, improving administrative efficiency, and the project of promoting electronic public documents for saving energy and carbon reduction.

    These were among the major projects to be carried out by the RDEC for 2010, according to Minister Chu Chin-peng of the Cabinet-level agency.

  • Taiwan: Taipeh wird zu riesigem Hotspot

    Netzwerk mit 10.000 Access Points

    Die taiwanesische Hauptstadt Taipeh soll zu einem einzigen riesigen Hotspot werden, an dem der drahtlose Zugang zum Internet für praktisch die gesamte Bevölkerung von jedem Ort aus möglich wird. Wie das asiatische IT-Portal DigiTimes berichtet, wurde ein entsprechender Vertrag zwischen Qware Systems & Services und der taiwanesischen Stadtverwaltung unterschrieben. Im Endausbau soll das WiFly genannte System über 10.000 Access Points verfügen. Qware erhofft sich für WiFly bis Jahresende rund 200.000 Kunden.

  • Taiwan: Taipeh: Kaum Interesse an weltgrößtem Hot-Spot-Netz

    Für den früheren Bürgermeister der Hauptstadt Taiwans war es ein Prestigeprojekt: Als Ergänzung zum GSM-Mobilfunknetz sollte in Taipeh bis Ende 2005 die stadtweite Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit drahtlosem Internet-Zugang per WLAN gewährleistet sein. Ma Ying-Jeou schwebte eine "CyberCity" vor, deren 2,6 Millionen Bewohner gegen Gebühr überall und rund um die Uhr per Funk surfen können. Inzwischen hat die Millionenmetropole am Danshui mit Hau Lung-Bin einen neuen Bürgermeister – und das weltweit größte städtische WLAN mit rund 4200 Hot-Spots, die 52 der insgesamt 272 Quadratkilometer Stadtfläche abdecken. Allein was fehlt sind Kunden.

  • Taiwan: Taipei Most Intelligent Community

    The citizens of Taipei will be glad to know that on June 9, their city was deemed the most intelligent community of 2006 by New York-based Intelligent Community Forum.

    The city beat other communities that were highly intelligent, though ultimately deemed to be not quite as smart as Taipei. They were Cleveland, Ohio; the Gangnam district of Seoul, Korea; Ichikawa, Japan; Manchester, Great Britain; Tianjin, China; and Waterloo, Canada. These communities and Taipei were the top seven intelligent communities announced by the ICF.

  • Taiwan: Taipei: Stadtweites WLAN-Netzwerk wird nur wenig genutzt

    Geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft in Taiwans Hauptstadt

    WiFly, ein stadtweites WLAN-Netzwerk, wird in Taipei, Taiwan, bisher wenig genutzt. Das berichtet die US-Tageszeitung 'New York Times' (Montagsausgabe). Mit 4.100 Hotspots ist das Stadtgebiet fast vollständig ausgeleuchtet. Über 90 Prozent der 2,6 Millionen Einwohner werden erreicht. Doch nur 40.000 Nutzer haben seit Januar einen Vertrag bei dem Betreiber Q-Ware unterzeichnet. Das Unternehmen hatte mit 250.000 Nutzern gerechnet, die Erwartungen aber später auf 200.000 reduziert.

  • Taiwan: Transparency project a key to better gov't management, service

    Fostering a wireless and digital working environment is becoming an essential part of our modern day society. Bill Edwards, the managing director of the e-Government Unit, is well aware of the trend towards a digitized government or "Directgov" as his envoy is currently responsible for the creation and sustainability of advocating the British project to Taipei.

  • Taiwan: Wireless in the city

    90% of Taipei's population will soon have access to wireless Internet broadband

    Taipaei looks set to be a wireless cybercity as its Mobile City (M-City) project nears completion this year.

    Making use of an advanced form of Wi-Fi technology called Wireless Mesh, a swarm of about 10,000 wireless access points is being set up in and about the city to provide wireless broadband Internet access to the city's residents.

  • Taiwan's free public Wi-Fi to launch in October

    The people in Taiwan will soon enjoy free Internet services in public areas in the country once the nationwide Wi-Fi service is launched in October.

    Shih Zen-chung, director of the Management Information Centre, Ministry of Transportation and Communication (MOTC) said the nationwide Wi-Fi service aims to bring convenience to people in looking online information using their electronic devices.

    Wi-Fi services will be available in airports, government agencies, post offices, schools, tourist information centres, tourist attractions and train stations.

  • Taiwan's ICT needs innovation, reform

    The most recent review by the World Economic Forum of global information technology affirmed Taiwan's status as world-leader in information and communications technology (ICT), but also revealed that shortcomings in infrastructure and our political system continue to drag down competitiveness.

    The focus of government industrial and technology policy, of course, should not be simply be directed at improving numerical ratings, but ratings of the "Networked Readiness Index" and its individual components drawn up by the WEF in its Global Information Technology Report can be of use in highlighting key areas for future improvement.

  • Taiwan's Model for Electronics in Government

    Taipei's WiFly network may be the most visible evidence of Taiwan's technological aspirations, but behind the scenes the government has been working since the 1990's on a far-reaching plan to use the Internet to make it faster and cheaper for bureaucrats to communicate among themselves and with citizens.

    The rewards have been substantial. In 2005, 92 percent of businesses and 35 percent of individuals filed their taxes electronically, reducing paperwork and speeding up the payment of returns.

  • Taiwan’s ‘smart city’ Kaohsiung shares know-how with Philippine vice mayors

    Vice Mayor Charles Lin was invited to represent Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City government at the Second Quarter-2024 Regular National Executive Board Meeting of the Vice Mayors’ League of the Philippines (VMLP) last month in Manila.

    In his keynote, Lin discussed the topic: “People-Oriented Smart Cities: The Experience of Kaohsiung City” that highlighted recent efforts and successes in developing a smart city and its urban transformation. At the event, he exchanged insights on urban governance with local vice mayors and officials nationwide.

  • Taiwan’s goal of resilient smart cities

    Taipei Youth for TURF Association and the role of youth in urban regeneration

    Resilient smart cities are cities that have the ability to absorb, recover, and prepare for future economic, environmental, social, and institutional shocks.

    One of the goals of Taiwan's 2050 net-zero emissions pathway is to promote resilient, smart cities through research and development in key areas such as urban development and regeneration. Taiwan’s goals are directly tied to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Importantly, one of the 17 SDGs is “Sustainable Cities and Communities”.

  • Taiwan’s passport holders urged to go biometric

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) urged Taiwan passport holders on Friday to change their passports to biometric ones, saying the conversion would make it easier for Taiwan to gain visa waiver privileges in countries around the world.

    The ministry said the e-passport, which increases document security and therefore speeds up immigration procedures, had already played an important role in obtaining visa-waiver status in the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union.

  • Taiwanese e-govt first step to 'revolution in governance'

    An e-government service platform aimed at improving administrative efficiency has been formally inaugurated.

    Taiwan, which was recently singled out as being the world's best e-government, has linked progress with e-government to wider objectives concerning the territory's IT development.

  • TW: Demand for Wi-Fi, online services in Taipei picking up

    The number of people using Taipei's free Wi-Fi service and the city's online websites and e-services grew in the first 11 months of 2012, Taipei's Department of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement Wednesday.

    A total of 1.58 million people had applied for access to the free Wi-Fi service, called Taipei Free, as of the end of November 2012, up from about 900,000 subscribers at the beginning of the year.

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