Technology Through Cloud Computing

Sept. 15, 2010

    

Upgrading Taiwan into an Advanced Country in Information Application and Technology Through Cloud Computing

 

On April 29th, the Executive Yuan declared “the Cloud Computing Industry Development Plan” in the 3193rd meeting, selecting the 15 promotional programs in the cross-ministry cloud computing development plan for promotion and execution.  It is expected to popularize cloud computing application and develop Taiwan into cloud computing application export country for advanced use by governments, enterprises, and individuals.   Taiwan’s IT industry will be able to have autonomy in cloud computing technology, upgrading and transforming Taiwan into a technologically advanced country that can provide “cloud computing system, application software, system consolidation, and service operation”.  Through the execution of this plan, Taiwan will be able to use new cloud computing technology to create an intelligent, quality lifestyle, moving toward becoming a major technological power.

 

Even though cloud computing is not an entirely new technology, it reshaped the outlook of the IT industry’s value chain and opened up a new era of competition of software and services.  This wave of developmental trend and transformation will have significant impact on industries and countries.  Both hardware and software IT industries need to upgrade toward software with high added value and the upgrade and transformation of services.  Government and enterprises (the service and traditional industries) also need to upgrade operational efficiency through the application of cloud computing.  Since cloud computing will be the new mainstream in IT application for the next ten years, governments from every country will commit to cloud computing policy making.  In this initial stage, Taiwan must not be absent. 

 

“The Cloud Computing Industry Development Plan” will be administered under the five following directions, comprehensively exerting the entire national administrative benefits from the aspect of governmental promotion, the aspect of effects on society, and the aspect of industrial economy.

 

  1. To upgrade the operating efficiency of the government:  working in concert with the right timing to reinvent the government organization, upgrading the IT software and hardware managing efficiency through sharing server rooms, and speeding up the popularization IT application among the government agencies.
  2. To upgrade people’s quality of life: through public constructions to promote cloud computing data center and to invent and to develop cloud computing services, to be used by everyone in everyday living.
  3. To upgrade the added value for hardware:  based on the advantages by IT hardware manufacturing, working in concert with system software that has high added value, to increase the gross profit.
  4. To drive investment from industries, to accelerate industrial transformation: to promote the combination of software and hardware, assisting industries to move toward a highly consolidated cloud computing service value chain of cloud computing, application software, and service operation through the cloud computing application.
  5. To strengthen the foundamental research and the research of industrial technology: to produce original, high-value intellectual properties through committing to research and development in industries and academia.

The promotion of “the Cloud Computing Industry Development Plan” will be implemented from the aspects of three major developmental strategies and implementations: the side of supply, the side of demand, and the side of management:

 

  1. The side of supply:  The Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) raised a comprehensive developmental strategy that highly consolidates the C4 industrial ecochain.  The key implementations include: developing cloud computing system and operational data center (Cloud), developing cloud computing application software (Commerce), continuing to promote broad band development (Connectivity), creating and researching cloud computing products (Client), and promoting scientific research of cloud computing testing and research and development as well as using public policies to drive investment and transformation from the industries.
  2. The side of demand:  The Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) of the Executive Yuan raised developmental strategy to promote cloud computing in the government (G-Cloud). The key implementations include: promoting the electronic version of diverse cloud computing in the government and undergoing international model transformation and export.
  3. The side of management:  the Executive Yuan will establish a “Cloud Computing Industrial Development Direction Task Force”.  The minister without portfolio will be its convener, and the director of DOIT will be the executive secretary, responsible for comprehensively coordinating, consolidating, managing and executing this plan.  The plan will assist Taiwan’s industries to have opportunities to participate in governmental planning through “the Cloud Computing Industry Promotion Office”.  Ultimately, it will catalyze the creation of cloud computing industry chain and promote cloud computing application in the government.

 

With NT$24 billions for five years, this plan currently plans to reach the goal of serving 10 million people through cloud computing, to drive businesses to commit an investment amount of NT$12.7 billions, and to facilitate an investment (including manufacturing and service) of NT$100 billions, 50,000 new jobs, and cumulative total cloud computing output of NT$ one trillion.

 

After being briefed by the MOEA, Premier Wu gave the following directives:

 

  1. The cloud computing industry is one of the four major emerging “smart” industries actively promoted by the government.  Taiwan should use the foundation of its outstanding IT industry and push for the goals of industrial upgrading and transformation and reducing carbon emission.
  2. Many of the administrative services in the government will be using the cloud computing to provide more convenient services and to promote the development of Taiwan’s cloud computing industry.  Ministries should make concerted efforts to promote cloud computing and act in concert in terms of budget and manpower in order to reach the expected goal.
  3. To accelerate the development of the cloud computing industry, Jin-Fu Zhang, the minister without portfolio will convene “the Cloud Computing Industry Development Advisory Task Force” which will be manned by the staff at MOEA.  It will also assist each ministry to plan and push for the cloud computing related programs and, at the same time, understand the industry’s needs to assist in solving technical problems or barriers to investment in order to create a better environment for industrial development.

 

 

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