Digital economy has been playing important role in Taiwan’s competitiveness: Luis Ko

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/05/13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Many information technology organizations in Taiwan attended a meeting in Taipei on Wednesday (May 13) to continue their push for the government to set up a new national agency dedicated to managing affairs related to the development of digital technology.

In 2015, the Information Service Industry Association (CISA) teamed up with 54 information technology-related organizations in the private sector to form the Digital Taiwan Roundtable (DTR) in order to facilitate legislation beneficial to the industry. The CISA and the DTR have played an important role in trumpeting the importance of digital technology to the nation's economy and in leading private sector-based efforts to push for the creation of a new national agency to oversee and coordinate all efforts and resources in the digital space.

The appeal was heard by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who had said in her address to the 2019 Future Tech Exhibition that the government will "study the feasibility of setting up a digital technology development agency to integrate the five fields of information, information security, telecommunication, network, and communication."

CISA Chairman Shen Bo-yan (沈柏延) said that it's hard to mobilize the digital economy without a national agency and urged President Tsai to establish one after she begins her second term on May 20.    [FULL  STORY]