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From nuts bolts to bits bytes

• The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal
  lord the steam-mill, society with the industrial
  capitalist.
• In the accelerated globalization process of the
  last decades, Information and Knowledge have
  become the decisive factors in determining a
  nations competitiveness.

Time
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Taiwans present industrial status
Change of industrial structure
GDP
Year
Source council for Economic Planning and
Development, 2003
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ICT the decisive competitive factor

• Knowledge economy, Information society, and
  Globalization are 3 major paradigm shifts in the
  post-capitalist society.
• ICT drives the exploitation of information and
  knowledge essentially. By stimulating more
  innovative/RD activities, ICT is expected to
  accelerate the incubation/accumulation of new
  knowledge.
• Effective application of ICT decides
  significantly the competitiveness of industries
  and nations in a global context.

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Digital Divide

• The so-called digital divide was actually
  several gaps in one. There is technology
  divide, great gaps in infrastructure
• We cannot assume that such gaps will disappear
  on their own,
• Technology has produced the information age. Now
  it is to all of us to build an information
  society
• - UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan

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Industrial Revolution vs. Information Revolution

• Industrial Revolution? Rich and Poor
• Left-Right Struggle
• South-North Imbalance
• East-West Conflict
• Information Revolution? Information have and
  have-not

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International efforts to bridge Digital Divide

• The Digital Opportunity Task Force (the DOT
  Force) was proposed by Leaders at the G8
  Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in July 2000.
• The 2001 APEC meeting treated bridging Digital
  Divide as a critical issue in its agenda, where
  Taiwan proposed Transforming the digital divide
  into digital opportunities and was welcomed.
• The 2003 WSIS in Geneva listed How Digital
  Divide is preventing equal sharing of
  opportunities concerning ICTs as their opening
  meeting discussion.
• and more

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National efforts to bridge Digital Divide
Japane-Japan (2001) IT Strategy Headquarters
USAFalling Through the Net (1998) Department of
Commerce
UKClosing the Digital Divide (2000) Department
of Trade and Industry PAT15
KoreaCyber Korea 21 (1999) Minister of
Information and Communication
Hong KongDigital 21 (2001)) Information
Technology and Broadcrasting Bureau
The Digital Divide Act (2001)
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Digital Divide Information haves have-nots

• Aborigines vs. Haka Mainstream Ethnic Groups

• Urban vs. Rural Areas

• Blue-collared Citizens vs. Professionals
  

• Senior Citizens vs. Teenagers Young Adults

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Taiwans rank in WEF NRI
Source The Global Information Technology Report
2002-2003 Readiness for the Networked World,
World Economic Forum, 2003
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Taiwans rank in WEF NRI
SourceWEF Global Information Technology Report
2003-2004
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Efforts to bridge Digital Divide

• e-aspects
• e-technology?e-industry?e-society
• Government actions
• e-awareness?e-infrastructure?e-readiness
• Individual efforts
• literacy?media literacy?computer literacy?network
  literacy

To achieve a e-society of full e-readiness with
citizens of advanced network literacy.
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Transforming Digital Divide into Digital
Opportunity
Creating Digital Opportunity

• Service
• e-Taiwan Project
• NICI Program
• e-Logistics Center

• Content
• Digital Content
• Digital Archive
• Digital Learning
• National Culture Database

• Impacts on
• Economy
• Society
• Education
• Human Rights

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e-Taiwan Project enabling policy

• Taiwans government has passed the e-Taiwan
  Project in May 2002.
• By launching this integrated project, Taiwan is
  stepping toward a knowledge-economy based,
  service-industry oriented, and high-tech driven
  country,
• with the vision that Taiwan will be one of the
  most advanced nations of e-application in the
  world by 2008.

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e-Taiwan mission
Internet Usage WEF/NRI
Knowledge Based Economy
Manufacturing
Venture Capital
R D
GDP 10 5

• Current Economy Challenges
• Knowledge Based Economy
• Slowing Economy Growth
• Changing Industry Structure

e-Infrastructure
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Information Society
Trillion
e -Society
e-Taiwan Project
e-Government
Industrial Society
e-Industry
e -Opportunity
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Export Industrial Park Ten
Infrastructure Projects

NII Projects
Custom Protection Import Control
1950 1960
1970 1980
1990 1996 2000 2002
2007
Import Substitution Policy
Export Expansion/ Heavy
Industrialization Policy
High-Tech Policy
e-Taiwan
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e-Taiwan vision
High-Tech Service Island
Knowledge Based Economy
Green Silicon Island
e-Taiwan with US 11 Billion Investment
Effective Government
Creating Digital Opportunity
Competitive Industry
Information-rich Society
Everyone everywhere should have the opportunity
to participate
One-stop services to its citizen
Best information Available to its citizen
Best supports to its industry to stay competitive
e-Industry
e-Opportunity
e-Government
e-Society
NII
GII
NII
Advanced Telecomm technology
GII
Broadband to every family
Infrastructure
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Taiwan governments efforts
Past
Now
Bridging Digital Divide Committee is
established to integrate the related tasks.
Government agencies made efforts to bridge
Digital Divide separately.
NICI The Executive Yuan
Council of Laborer
Ministry of Interior
Integrated
Steering panel for bridging the digital divide
Council of Aboriginal

• Tasks
• Bridging Digital Divide in remote areas
• Bridging Digital Divide in industries
• Bridging global Digital Divide

Ministry of Education
Council of Agriculture
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IIIs efforts to bridge Digital Divide

• Continuously promote ICTs in remote areas and for
  underprivileged people based upon the philosophy
  of loving care.
• To become an enabler for promoting knowledge
  economy, sharing e-quality, and achieving digital
  equality to develop Taiwan as a leading nation of
  e-competitiveness.

• Building 100 digital opportunity centers to
  offer digital access and
• learning opportunities in remote areas within 5
  years.
• Providing digital services in the digital
  opportunity centers to promote
• e-learning and e-commerce.
• Aggregating the task force of III and the
  resources from public private
• sectors to devote to the work of bridging
  digital divide.

Major Tasks
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Digital Opportunity Center (Jhongliao, NanTou,
Taiwan)
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IIIs international efforts to bridge Digital
Divide

• Organized a Taiwan delegation to attend
  UN/WSIS(World summit on the Information Society)
  in Dec. 2003 at Geneva,
• to participate in the WSIS parallel (Conference
  on Volunteering and ICTs) and discussed with over
  100 state leaders on How to deal with the new
  challenges in Information Society including how
  to bridge the digital divide?how to promote the
  concept of Technical Volunteer and how to train
  them?how to develop the digital contents on the
  Internet, etc.
• Formed a Taiwan mission for Intl Digital
  Opportunities in Feb. 2004 to visit Guatemala
  and Swaziland,
• to sign a MOU with International Cooperation and
  Development Fund (ICDF), Taiwan for jointly
  providing technical assistance to other
  developing countries.
• to summit a 4-year e-development plan after the
  in-situ review.
• Participated in the Government Project (i.e.,
  ADOC) since March, 2004.
• And more

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Concluding remarks

• Digital divide is not just an ICT problem, but
  also a social one, it should be resolved by
  social movement.
• Promote e-Taiwan Project to foster Taiwan as a
  leading nation of e-Competitiveness in Asia
• The vision shall include strategic dimensions of
  infrastructure development, advancement of
  emerging e-industries and promotion of electronic
  applications.
• Achieve a society of digital equality by loving
  care to realize digital human rights
• The key of bridging digital divide is people.
• Creating digital opportunities is a critical task
  to bridge digital divide.
• The aspects of economy, education, society and
  human rights should all be considered.
• The idea of prior digital area should be
  implemented.

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