2017 Factual Report on the Smart City Expo
Jul 14, 2017
By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Smart City industry is a brand-new example for the current Taiwan industries, which have undergone a transformation. It needs to collaborate with the domestic and foreign cities and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry, and moves on to the goals to work on a “strategic town for the supply chain among worldwide smart cities”. The Smart City Expo is the best platform to start a conversation with international cities. Likewise, the Taipei City offers the biggest national trial domain for the smart city. Concerning a more specific way, it can exhibit the result of the smart public services as introduced by the Taipei City Government. On the other hand, the city government also actively helps the domestic vendors going global to export solutions that come with a profitable operating model to the global market after a successful trial. The Taipei City Government will promote several smart application projects in the future successively so that the general public can experience more about the smart innovation and application services. It may also create good vibes within the entire smart industry to achieve a vision of industrial development for the smart city so that “the effect started from the Taipei City may spread across Taiwan and move southbound through international export”.
Initiate the Smart Life and Move on to Taipei, the Smart City
Jul 14, 2017
By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
Taipei Smart City started to develop with these core philosophy and vision known as an “open government”, “citizen participation” and “public-private partnership” to further extend that two major developments called “transformation of service innovation” and “open matching platform” so that it may formulate a guideline for each strategy. As the office for smart city project was founded, a matching platform has been established and made available for the innovative technology and citizens. Several empirical domains have been made available for the public. Regulations for the empirical domains were specified in writing to serve as a basis for those service providers that are interested in joining this project. The platform may help the Taipei City Government to introduce the smart technology by offering a solution to solve problems and can be actually integrated with the mostly wanted smart applications for all citizens.
Connecting the international world, a new era for smart applications begins in the Taipei City
Jul 14, 2017
By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
Taipei City has the most complete software and hardware facilities for information and communication technology. Plus, with the effect of diffusion spread across the industrial villages along the technology corridor, it helps to create a good environment to develop industrial innovation and may increase the kinetic energy to develop the overall industry. Therefore, to stimulate the creative power for the Taipei smart industry and to promote start-up businesses for its development on the smart innovation practices, the Taipei City Government continues to integrate each start-up resource collected from the city government and private group as well as the mechanism for consultation and guidance to actively promote each relevant policy on the innovative start-ups. It may stimulate creative ideas and deepen connection with the development of smart industry.
Overlooking the world, the new style of a smart city has just been started
Jul 14, 2017
By Su,Meng-tsung
Taiwan is now facing a lot of stress from domestic industrial transformation and the trends in a new global economy. It needs to grasp the point of opportunity and strategy to develop the smart city, and should develop an overall strategy for the development of a smart city based on the national team level. The long-term vision was set up to “solve the local problems and look into the worldwide business opportunity”. First, it should consider developing a strategy to promote the cross-capital pilot project systematically. Meanwhile, it also takes advantages of the technology industry to accelerate the applied ecological circle for creating the smart city and to increase the feelings of happiness among the general public. It can help industry to achieve innovation and explore the overseas market by creating a new Taiwan where the Lohas philosophy and sustainability coexist.
Connect with the local to create a smart ecological circle
Jul 14, 2017
By Li,Chen-yu
The smart city finds solutions to solve the problems of living for the citizens through a variety of creative ICT services. It also allows the promotion of a sustainable environment and brings it into effect of integration through cross-industry cooperation. The Taipei City government promotes a critical concept in the smart city and sets goals to build a sustainable city for comfortable living. It is dedicated to promote the development of smart industry and integrates each division or bureau to collaborate with the service providers in terms of four aspects, the smart government, smart citizens, infrastructure and empirical domain. The government develops each smart innovation and application service as well as domain verification in the hope that it can build a creative smart ecological circle in Taipei City, which allows more effective collaboration between industry and the city government and the smart services can be developed accordingly.
Smart City Re-upgrades: A Platform is now available to promote innovations
Jul 14, 2017
By Chang,Chih-Chiang
The related application of a smart city can be considered as the innovative business model, which is mostly being used as a solution to solve the problem of city governance. The Taipei City Government uses the entire city as the empirical domain for practices to collaborate with the creative service providers and promote smart public housing, smart government, smart traffic and smart education. It allows the Taipei city residents to experience the convenience brought about by smart technology and exemplifies the result of a successful domain to actively exert its effect on the diffusion of “soldier training in Taiwan exported overseas”. The derivative technology and innovation as well as commercial service model were copied and spread to other cities, which allow domestic service providers participating in exhibitions to have more market potential and international competitiveness.
Top 100 City Destinations: Taipei City Wins Visitors’ Hearts
Jun 19, 2017
By Feng,Ling-hui/TIER
Euromonitor International, a global market intelligence provider based in London, released its latest Top City Destinations Ranking in 2017. The data sources include national statistics offices, airport arrivals, and hotel accommodation stays from 58 core countries and 77 international markets. Cities around the world are ranked by the number of international tourist arrivals in 2015.
Taipei tops InterNations Expat Insider City Ranking
May 14, 2019
The free movement of talent has turned into a global trend. Expat assignments are great opportunities for young people to grow and broaden their horizons. As far as the cities are concerned, the attraction of international talent is the key to enhanced international competitiveness. InterNations, the largest global network for expatriates, released its survey titled Expat Insider City Ranking: The best and worst cities for expats in 2018 in November 2018. Taipei City Government was selected as the most livable city in the minds of expatriates in 2018 based on availability and quality of medical care, convenient transportation, friendly human interactions, a vibrant business outlook, and affordable cost of living. In this survey, Taipei ranks ahead of Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, and New York.
New start-up power gives birth to new start-up social enterprises and urges them to keep on moving
Jul 14, 2017
By Ilien,Ting-kai/DOMI Earth
The social enterprise has been proven to become a real business model and can practically resolve the social issues and is considered as a sustainable enterprise which consistently extends and expands. To respond to the trends in social enterprise start-up business, all government agencies should continue to act the role as a resource integrator and promote enterprises by all means or use resources to get involved with the business operations of the social enterprise. The government should come up with the policies that are best suited for each social enterprise under the direction of economic development to prompt social innovation. On the other hand, the government should make use of the idea of social innovation to support companies to acquire a B Corp certification. During the process of producing products and offering services, the company will show its mission to society, about how it cares about this society and wants to give back to it. We hope that the company can make good use of the B Corp certification during the certified process to construct its social impact and creative business model.
The Rise of a B Corp Changes the Way of How an Enterprise Looks
Jul 14, 2017
By Chang,Ta-wei/Asia Pacific B Corp Association
How a B Corp can be certified through an evaluation may depend on looking into these five aspects for its performance - corporate governance, employee care, friendly work environment, running a community and its influence over the clients. To find its true value, the B Corp movement wants to show more enterprises how to use the business impact analysis (BIA) to serve as its best tool for corporate benchmark learning. With this tool, an enterprises can evaluate its performance other than the financial index, which allows enterprises to develop into the kind of enterprise “that can do best for the world”. Meanwhile, it may create mutual benefits and long-term prosperity for all the parties involved.