Under the leadership of Mayor Lu Shiow-yen, the Taichung City Government has actively implemented the concept of "sunshine politics." In the 2022 Open Data National Competition held by the Executive Yuan, the government once again received the first-place Gold Award! The award was personally presented by Premier Su Tseng-chang at the National Information Manager Joint Meeting and Government Data Open Awards Ceremony in December 2022. Today, at the city council meeting, Lin Gu-long, the director of the Digital Governance Bureau, presented the award to Mayor Lu.
Director Lin stated that sunshine politics is one of Mayor Lu's important governing philosophies. Since her inauguration in 2019, the city government has received open data awards from the Executive Yuan for four consecutive years. The achievements of the city government have been recognized by various sectors. Under the efforts of the Information Center, the results have been highly praised. In the future, the Digital Bureau will continue to play a coordinating role across departments, hold regular cross-agency review meetings, and interact with the open community, in order to examine and adjust the direction of open data development from multiple perspectives and to better meet user needs.
Director Lin mentioned that the city government has also received the "TGOS Contribution Award" and "TGOS Circulation Service Award" from the Ministry of the Interior for geographic data this year. It is the only local government to receive the TGOS Contribution Award and has won the award for 12 consecutive years in the area of map circulation services. It has received widespread acclaim and recognition from academia and industry, demonstrating the effectiveness of the city government's promotion of open maps and map services, as well as the concrete manifestation of the Digital Bureau's implementation of open government.
Furthermore, the Digital Bureau pointed out that open data is a critical key to promoting the value of data utilization. The city government will continue to promote quality and quantity in open data and strengthen its international connections. Last year, it met the "Open Street Map (OSM) Community" review standards and linked approximately 1.2 million open map data points from Taichung City to the OSM open source map. This is still the only initiative of its kind in the country!
The Digital Bureau stated that this year, the city government has also innovatively provided geographic data to electronic map service platforms, sharing geographic data on international platforms for global use and combining industry capabilities to maximize data value. This is an excellent example of public-private partnership data application, and the Digital Bureau will continue to promote the added value of government open data, enhance the scope of the city government's digital governance, and improve the convenience of people's lives, demonstrating the benefits of co-creation.
Reference URL: The Storm Media