The alliance, led by Chairman Peng Chi-ming, aims to communicate with the government to make more data available to the public and develop the nation’s knowledge economy. Besides developing industrial cooperation, the alliance, which is expected to grow, will collect opinion, learn and benchmark itself against international counterparts.
Simon Chang of Executive Yuan, who was appointed as Minister without Portfolio in 2012 to coordinate major IT policies and implementations, said that he aims to make more government public by the end of this year. The government will focus on the quality of information and improve its services through public feedback.
Taiwan’s open data initiative started late last year. Government departments have begun to release its data since the second quarter of this year. For example, earlier in July, the government launched a cloud-based open data platform to give citizens easy access to information on natural disasters such as typhoon.
The open data initiative stems from an existing ‘Open Government Information’ act enacted years ago. Each government ministry is required to identify a minimum of five data categories in the first trial phase in March 2013, and 50 categories in the second phase, which ends in December 2013.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Kelly Ng
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 27.09.2013
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