Taiwan, Singapore Lead Gov't Online
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By ELIZABETH ZUCKERMAN    PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  -- A university study has found Taiwan and Singapore now lead the United States and Canada in providing government services online.    The Brown University survey, in its fourth year, measures the online performance of government in 198 countries...
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With Internet-phone upstarts taking business away from traditional companies, the government is looking to step in soon to set up rules for the growing telecom service. -washingtonpost.com
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Singapore&#39;s new Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has stressed that Singapore will not change its long-held&quot;one-China&quot; policy, and if Taiwan provokes a conflict, Singapore will not support Taiwan.
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New York state's attorney general and legislative leaders introduce legislation to protect people online.
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(InfoWorld) - The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has qualified 12 bidders for the government's Next Generation National Broadband Project. The announcement comes follows IDA's December 2006 call for interested companies and consortiums to demonstrate their capabilities for approval to bid on the project. In all, around 30 companies planning to bid either as individual entities or part of a consortium were qualified for the project. To qualify, companies had to show they have the financial resources and the experience necessary to build the network. Singapore has been moving towards the construction of the next-generation broadband network since February last year, when the country's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced plans to build a high-speed network. The network, which will offer speeds ranging from 100M bps (bits per second) to more than 1G bps and will connect all homes, schools and businesses in Singapore to the network. The next-generation network is expected to be ready by 2012. While Singapore is among Asia's wealthiest and most developed nations, the country's adoption of broadband and wireless networking technologies lags behind that of Asia's most connected countries, such as South Korea. The next-generation broadband project, and the rollout of a public Wi-Fi network, have been proposed by the government as ways to help close this gap. The next step of the next-generation broadband project involves discussions between the government and the pre-qualified bidders on the exact specifications and requirements of the project, which will be set forth in a formal tender document, expected to be released later this year. Companies that were not pre-qualified for the project are not excluded from bidding, IDA said. They can either join an approved consortium or seek approval from IDA to bid on their own. Â
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SINGAPORE Placed in charge of securing his city-state&#39;s economic future in the face of growing competition from China and India, Singapore&#39;s new prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, is calling for his citizens to be more productive - literally.
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Myanmar's Internet shutdown shows how governments control the Web--and when they can't.
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Better information sharing needed A top official from the banking industry has said the public sector is a major target for online fraud.â¦
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Politicians look for help online with the popular networking site facebook.com
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BEIJING, Feb. 1 -- Two senior Chinese officials flew to Taiwan Tuesday to attend the funeral of a deceased Taiwanese leader, the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures from Beijing designed to lower tensions across the Taiwan Strait.
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In a first for the Philippines' cumbersome electoral process, Filipinos working in Singapore can use the Internet to vote for their candidates in May mid-term elections, the service provider said.
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BEIJING, July 21 -- Brushing aside warnings from the Bush administration, the Taiwanese government of President Chen Shui-bian announced Friday that it has applied for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan.
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Singaporean leader Lee Hsien Loong criticized Taiwan because he was under &quot;tremendous pressure&quot; to patch up relations with Beijing, Taiwan&#39;s foreign minister said Monday _ a day after Lee warned he wouldn&#39;t support the island if it sparked a war with China
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China is enforcing more monitoring of online games, a state news agency in the country reports.
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OL NEW|TWN CHI|| ||| 2004-10-13 10:47:18 Taiwan&#39;s Chen calls for patience toward China TAIPEI (AFX) - President Chen Shui-bian said the people and government of Taiwan should have patience toward China even though it has so far
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(InfoWorld) - China is seeking to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting, a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet. IGF is a forum for countries and other stakeholders to exchange ideas about key Internet issues. China appears poised to raise issues that have put it at loggerheads with the United States, which has been consistently criticized forÂ wielding too much influence over the Internet. However, there are no specific plans for how the issues raised by China may be addressed, said Markus Kummer, executive coordinator for the secretariat of the IGF, on Tuesday in London. "We are going to discuss critical Internet resources, but we haven't framed the discussion yet," Kummer said. IGF's next meeting, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in November, will broadly cover four subject areas: access, openness, security and diversity. A Chinese representative asserted about two weeks ago that last year's IGF meeting in Athens missed discussion of key issues. "Still, there are some critical issues that were missing at the meeting," the Chinese representative said, according to a transcript on the IGF Web site. "For instance, issues like the DNS root servers and IP address." Root servers manage the Domain Name System, which enables the translation of a Web site name, such as www.idg.com, to a numerical Internet Protocol address used to find where the Web page is hosted for viewing in a browser. Kummer stressed that IGF is not a policy-making body and said there are "widely divergent expectations" about its role. IGF doesn't have binding power to regulate the Internet worldwide, but it can provide an international stage to discuss issues, Kummer said. "Negotiating a treaty takes a long time, and it is only as good as the weakest link in the chain," Kummer said. It would appear countries such as China are hoping IGF will be a stage for more controversial issues. China, along with other developing countries, has expressed concerned over the influence of the U.S. government as well as the physical location of much of the Internet's core infrastructure in the U.S., such as root servers. To accommodate an ever-increasing number of Internet users, China is also seeking to increase its allocation of IP addresses, an essential numerical identifier for a computer or devices to connect to the Internet. The U.S. has generally opposed management changes or adjustments in the Internet's infrastructure, saying it could undermine its stability and security.
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The Taiwan government will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to work on WiMax technology and product development with multinationals including Intel, NEC, Nortel Networks, and German WiMax tester Rohde &amp; Schwarz (R&amp;S).The initiative is part of Taiwan&#39;s plan to become one of the largest producers of&#160;WiMax equipment&#160;in the world. The island is already positioning itself to be one of the&#160;fastest adopters of WiMax wireless broadband&#160;Internet connectivity outside of North America. Officials see the technology as a good way to spread broadband Internet access throughout the island, which includes remote mountain villages and sparsely populated outlying islands.Taiwan often signs such agreements with multinationals to stimulate technology development on the island. Often, such deals offer incentives for companies to build R&amp;D centers on the island focused on a certain technology, such as tax-free status, research grants, rent-free space in science parks and more. Officials plan to release more details at the 2007 WiMax Forum Taipei Showcase and Conference next week.Earlier this week, officials pledged to spend $1.22 billion to build out Taiwan&#39;s WiMax network over the next five years, including $1 billion for a fiber optic backbone running down the length of the island and $220 million for WiMax base stations and other equipment.The island has been promoting its M Taiwan project, or Mobile Taiwan, to speed up Internet mobility and encourage companies on the island to invest more in building products for WiMax, 3G (third generation telecommunications) and other wireless technologies.NEC has already announced that its equipment will be used by Taiwanese WiMax license winner Tatung next week in an ambulance test. The companies will show how a patient&#39;s vital signs such as heartbeat and blood pressure can be sent ahead to a hospital before the ambulance arrives via WiMax, allowing hospital workers to better prepare for the incoming emergency. The trial will run Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, the companies said in a statement.Taiwan held a WiMax license auction earlier this year to six companies, three each for the north and south of Taiwan. The three winners of southern Taiwan licenses were&#160;Far EasTone Telecommunications, Vastar Cable TV System, and Tatung. For the north, the winners were Global On, First International Telecom, and a joint venture between Tecom and 3G network operator VIBO Telecom.&#160;