Thursday, November 30, 2006

IT MONTH TO FEATURE EXHIBITION ON E-GOVERNMENT EFFORTS

Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) An exhibition that is part of the upcoming Information Technology Month (IT month) will showcase Taiwan's achievements in an e-Government campaign, organizers said Monday.

In addition to hundreds of IT company booths, a special exhibition area will also feature the work of more than ten government agencies, as part of the e-Government campaign initiated ten years ago by the Executive Yuan's Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission.

In global rankings, Taiwan has been doing quite well in the past three years. In a global e-Government performance survey conducted on 198 countries by Brown University in the United States, Taiwan ranked No.1, No.1 and No.2 respectively in 2004-2006.

Participating government agencies include the Ministry of Economic Affair's Bureau of Foreign Trade, Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Industrial Development Bureau, Council of Cultural Affairs, National Science and Technology Program of e-Learning, and the National Palace Museum, among others.

Taiwan's government established a unified Web site in 2001 to provide the public with links to all government Web sites, allow rapid searches for all information on government agency Web pages and allow the public to communicate their opinions to the government via the Internet.

Also, the government directed all agencies to actively promote online public services to cover their areas of authority.