Smart City TOP2: Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai Credits the Citizen Card

(Taiwan Business News) Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai said that Hsinchu City was shortlisted among the TOP 7 smart cities of the 2014 Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), and the "Hsinchu Citizen Card," a small effort that achieved great results, was one of the outcomes most envied by other participating cities and most hoped to be shared.

At the results press conference yesterday (the 10th), Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai thanked all citizens for their cooperation, which allowed Hsinchu City to use technology to make citizens' lives more convenient and smarter and to create a healthier and happier life.

On June 3, Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai personally traveled to New York, the United States, to attend the 2014 Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) awards ceremony, and also attended the ICF annual conference and economic cooperation exchange meeting, sharing experience in smart city development with representatives of other smart cities from around the world.

Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai was also invited to serve as a panelist in the The Master Class forum (City Challenges and Commitments), sharing Hsinchu City's experience and holding discussions with representatives of other cities and enterprises. Waterloo Mayor Brenda of Canada greatly praised Mayor Hsu's promotion of the Citizen Card application and hoped that the two cities could have opportunities for exchange and cooperation in the future.

Hsinchu Mayor Hsu Ming-tsai said that Hsinchu City stood out among more than 400 international cities to enter the TOP21 and even the TOP7, and that this year Toronto, Canada, won TOP1, while Hsinchu City was ranked in TOP2 together with 5 other cities. For this international recognition, thanks go to all citizens for their cooperation, especially the support of the Hsinchu Science Park, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and experts and scholars from 6 universities. The main reasons Hsinchu City entered the TOP 7 smart city award include building a high-speed wireless Internet environment (i-Hsinchu), low-carbon green energy measures as the nation's number one low-carbon green energy model, wireless broadband combined with innovative Citizen Card services, building a cyber smart city, building an electronic smart castle, quality LOHAS peace and happiness, the Hsinchu City bus real-time app (ibus-Hsinchu City), KIOSK-type treasure machines (public health service stations), 100 percent campus e-ification - the nation's number one iPad electronic schoolbag and e-book reader, the small business innovation research program, and value-added glass industry and cultural creativity.