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.
The experts made the statement during a forum yesterday, organized by the Foundation of Taiwan Medical Development.
During the news conference, a demonstration was held to showcase how cloud computing may have medical applications: databases of health and medical records of different races of people were uploaded to the Internet for download by hospitals, which can then design preventive care programs based on these databases.
“There are five key areas when we envision Taiwan’s intelligent government,” said Su. “They are citizen-centric and on-demand e-services, citizen participation through increasing transparency, mobile access to citizen services, social networking and web 2.0, and ICT-enabled green services,” said Su, who appreciated the opportunity to share Taiwan’s journey with his peers from China.
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The National ICT Center of Belize, which officially opened Aug. 27 in Belmopan, Belize, marked Taiwan's latest effort in helping its four Caribbean allies promote "information societies, " said Valentino Ji Zen Tang, deputy secretary-general of the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF).
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Tao Wen-lung, secretary-general of Taiwan's International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF), told participants that the event was organized to promote ICT development in the Caribbean and narrow the digital gap between developing countries in the region and developed nations, according to a statement by Taiwan's Embassy to Saint Lucia.
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