"Central Taiwan Digital Culture Center" to be built in Shuinan, Taichung

Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung was invited to attend the "2015 Taichung Soft Power Forum," where he presented Taichung's policy vision for a smart cultural city and, on behalf of the city government, signed a letter of intent for cooperation with National Chung Hsing University to establish a promotion team for industry-academia-research collaboration, giving rise at Shuinan Smart City to the "Central Taiwan Digital Culture Center" for sharing digital resources and fostering the concept that "the entire city is a museum"; in addition, Shuinan will also be positioned as a low-carbon, innovative smart demonstration zone, and the landmark Taiwan Tower will also be repositioned, in the hope of driving regional development.

The Taichung City Government and National Chung Hsing University jointly held the "2015 Taichung Soft Power Forum," inviting Jose Murilo, a senior digital culture official from Brazil's Ministry of Culture and a well-known blogger, to exchange views on how government departments can make good use of the power of the internet to improve the quality of governance.

Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung said that Shuinan Smart City will be positioned as a low-carbon, innovative smart city demonstration zone, carrying out system integration and building the "Taichung Smart Operations Center" as the hub of smart services, driving related systems such as information and communications technology services, transportation services, personnel management communications, environmental quality services, and commercial marketing services, so that through the Internet of Things, citizens can experience the convenience of smart living.

In addition to repositioning the landmark Taiwan Tower, Shuinan Smart City will also build the "Central Taiwan Digital Culture Center," incorporating concepts such as smart technology, cultural and creative industries, industrial innovation, environment, education, low carbon, and tourism, with the development vision of linking industrial technology resources with systems and spatial construction, becoming Taiwan's cultural preservation gene bank, accelerating industrial upgrading, and creating a win-win-win for government, enterprises, and citizens.

Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung and NCHU President Lee Der-tsai signed a letter of intent for cooperation to jointly give rise to the "Central Taiwan Digital Culture Center," drive regional development, and connect education, science, and culture-related institutions across central Taiwan to establish shared digital resources; at the same time, based on the principle of "open data," they plan to open up digital data related to Taichung's municipal administration and cultural memory, turning Taichung into a city museum, and comprehensively carrying out industry-academia-research strategic cooperation and planning an international innovation and entrepreneurship and low-carbon smart demonstration zone.