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.
At a gathering with the media, Chu said that the Legislative Yuan has recently ratified the government restructuring bills by revising the Executive Yuan's organic regulations to consolidate the number of ministries and other Cabinet agencies from 37 to 29.
This is the concrete fulfillment of a major part of the RDEC's long-term goal of continuously advancing the service quality and efficiency of the government.
For the past year, the RDEC has maintained utmost efforts to help monitor the execution and progress of the principal administrative projects being implemented by the Cabinet, Chu said.
As a major driving force and coordinating agency for among all Cabinet departments and offices, the RDEC has also been pushing the e-government programs for instant services offered to the people.
Other major projects carried out by the RDEC included the selecting and awarding national publishing prizes, upgrading the English standards of residents, and refining the more-friendly international living environment for the conveniences for foreign people who chose to live and work in Taiwan.
For the New Year, Chu said the RDEC staff will exert all-out efforts to work out detailed enforcement rules related to the government reorganization to ensure smooth coordination among Cabinet agencies and local-level governments for the best administrative efficiency.
Publishing the electronic version of government publications is included in the RDEC's “e-book” project.
To speed up the workflow of government documents and provide more efficient services while carrying out the policy of saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the RDEC will keep promoting electronic public documents.
All government departments will gradually convert all drafts, proposals, notices and other documents into electronic format from this year on, aiming to decrease significantly paper usage.
The only exceptions will be confidential documents, said Chu.
The results of the commission's test-run has shown that the average time to process each document was already reduced to 2.84 days from 3.41 days.
If the practice expands to the whole governmental networks -- for the 30 million documents it processed every year-- a total of 9,000 trees would be saved and overall efficiency would be further improved by at least half a day.
The RDEC has set a target for the “e-documents project” that all government forms and documents will be digitized by the end of 2012.
Chu said the government will at the same time adopt sufficient security measures to prevent the system from possible hacker attacks.
Government officials will have to use both their staff ID and Citizen Digital Certificate to log into the system to process all documents. It will be very safe, he added.
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Quelle/Source: The China Post, 22.01.2010
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