ICF Chairman and Co-founder John G. Jung paid a visit to Hsinchu County Government on March 22 to meet Magistrate Chiu Ching-chun, the two men sharing their intelligent community promotion experience. Jung also gave a speech at the Hsinchu County Intelligent Community Seminar and engaged in discussion with industry, bureau, academia, research, and medical field representatives to coordinate a concerted effort to win the TOP1 spot.
Accompanied by Magistrate Chiu and Deputy Magistrate Hsu Gan-mei, Jung also visited the Smart Living Center and the Institute of Hsinchu County History. He expressed affirmation for the efforts of the county government to merge intelligent technology into daily life.
Magistrate Chiu said, in the past few years, combining diverse resources and expanded R&D and application, an intelligent digital life blue print has been drawn up. The five main industries green photonics, biomedicine, culture and creativity, tourism and refined agriculture have all moved along with technological development; in particular, on the foundation of infrastructure building, with citizen’s participation and life application, growing industry, bureau, academia, research and medicine cooperation, and using minimum resources for maximum effect, promoting the sustainable operation of industry and economic growth and prosperity.
John G. Jung shared his observations and thoughts on intelligent community trends since he found ICF in 1999. He said that a successful intelligent city strategy centered on an education and knowledge center, imagination, digital inclusion, broadband, logistics and building form sustainable development through marketing and advocacy, inviting citizens to take part.
In fact, the 145 successful intelligent community cases since 1999 have all been at the forefront of innovation, aiming to use more advanced technology to make cities more livable, comfortable and safe. Education is of particular importance for achieving this goal, to give young people a more complete understanding of overall city development and, through intelligentization, improving the city environment and creating more new industries and employment opportunities.
Jung said the world trend is to move from Smart City to Intelligent City, placing more emphasis on people than on things. He said he was pleased to see that cities in Taiwan have sufficient consciousness in the creative process and uphold the idea of “people first”. He wished Hsinchu County all the best in its pursuit of excellence.
Hsinchu County successfully reached the ICF SMART 21 list at the first attempt and then went on to make the TOP 7. The aim is, through the power of cooperation between industry, bureau, academia, research and medical fields, form an effective economic interaction system to give citizens better work and life quality.
ICF committee members are scheduled to visit Hsinchu County on a 4 day, 3-night evaluation on April 13-16. The county government has arranged visits to the county’s industrial parks and research institutions including Tai Yuen Hi-Tech Industrial Park, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and they will also visit Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park to see the environmental protection and energy conservation and biomedical technology developed there. Striving to reach the pinnacle of being named Top 1, Hsinchu County Government has established an Intelligent Community Project Group to integrate the intelligentization results and resources of the industry, bureau, academia, research and medical fields. The Intelligent Community Project Group is making every effort in the pursuit of electronicalization so that Hsinchu County becomes one of the leading intelligent communities internationally.