The system provides a user-friendly interface which integrates spatial information crucial for the city’s Emergency Dispatch Centre to manage and mobilise rescue operations. This includes information derived from digital maps, building and block maps, aerial photographs and water resource maps among others.
The rankings were the results of a survey conducted by Japan's Waseda University recently. The commission said that Taiwan shared the eighth place with Denmark, with a score of 83.52.
Read more: Taiwan ranks 8th in e-government survey by Waseda University
Taiwan Solidarity Union caucus whip Huang Wen-ling said at a press conference that Zain Dean, who was sentenced to four years in prison on drunk-driving charges, was able to leave Taiwan because the immigration agency botched the screening process.
Dr. Gwo Jiunn Huang of the Institute for Information Industry, said these three points were by Taiwan to become one of the world’s top ICT countries in the world.
“The Taiwan government has been helping in their ICT development and they have successfully moved from a manufacturing-based ICT to a service-driven ICT,” Huang said.
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.
Read more: TW: Demand for Wi-Fi, online services in Taipei picking up