The Taipei City Government received the Public Sector Excellence Award from the World Information Technology and Services Alliance at the 2012 World Congress on Information Technology in Montreal, Canada.
“The city won with the theme Love@Taipei, A Smart City,” Chang Chia-sheng, commissioner of the municipal Department of Information Technology, said Oct. 24.
Taipei triumphed primarily because of its efforts in providing wireless Internet services, as well as its citizen hotline and the police department’s citywide closed-circuit TV system, helping the city achieve its goals of being convenient, friendly and safe, he noted.
“DOIT statistics show that 2 million people now utilize Taipei’s Wi-Fi service monthly,” Chang pointed out.
The city administration said, “The broadband infrastructure and diverse application services we offer have shaped Taipei into the world’s first wireless applications city.”
Wi-Fi hotspots make it easy to connect to the Internet, while a cloud computing system allows access to integrated city services through TV sets, cellphones or the Internet.
Founded in 1978, “the WITSA is a leading consortium of information and communications technology industry association members from 82 economies worldwide,” the WITSA website said, adding that its members “represent more than 90 percent of the world ICT market.”
The WCIT, hosted every two years by the WITSA, ran Oct. 22-24. (THN)
Write to Grace Kuo at mlkuo@mofa.gov.tw
SOURCE / Taiwan Today