To fully cooperate with the Executive Yuan’s Sustainable Energy Policy Framework and E-official Document Energy Conservation and Paper Reduction Next Step Program, from March 29 the county government managers’ meeting will adopt the e-meeting format. It is estimated that over 1300 sheets of paper will be saved by the weekly meetings. Adding the paper saved from the monthly county affairs meeting, around 7000 sheets of paper can be saved every month, a saving of tens of thousands of NTD annually.
Magistrate Chiu Ching-chun said that as societies are leaning towards technology, electronicization is an inevitable trend. By promoting e-meetings the administrative efficiency of the county government services to the public can be raised and energy can be conserved and carbon emissions reduced, making a contribution to the earth.
Director of the county government’s General Development Department Chen Guan-yi said that e-meeting refers to the use of the Internet to provide meeting materials to participants and use of electronic devices (tablet, smart phone or laptop PC) to display information. Meeting materials are no long handed out at the venue, answering the call to care for the earth through sustainability and environmental protection, conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions
The county government managers’ meeting and county affairs meeting are the first county government meetings to use tablets PCs, smart phones or laptops and Cloud file downloading to replace the distribution of printed materials. The aim is to gradually spread the e-meeting format to all the county government’s subsidiary institutions, schools and township/city offices to make administrative operations more effective, conserving more energy and reducing paper use.
Director Chen emphasized that Hsinchu County was named in the ICF TOP7 in 2016 and sustainable development is one of the main indicators being promoted. Hsinchu County is actively promoting a healthy city plan and low carbon sustainable home plan as well as low carbon community, school improvement and refuse volume reduction plans; in future, broadband technology use can be expanded and communities and civil groups are encouraged to use it to make Hsinchu a leading intelligent community.