Gov't Urged to Serve as Growth Locomotive for Taiwan's Cloud Computing Industry

Taipei, April 12, 2012 (CENS)--Taipei Computer Association (TCA) chairman J.T. Wang, also doubling as the chairman of Acer Inc., has urged the Taiwanese government to pour more public budgets into developing government cloud services to serve as the growth locomotive for the industry.

At a TV interview program organized by Taiwan's main news agency UDN Group, Wang noted that the government's resolution to set up government cloud services is key to success of the industry's development, so the government should dedicate its resources to developing such services instead of building highways, for example.

To tout Taiwanese government's efforts, Wang cited his experience in visiting an officially-founded cloud computing demonstration center in Chongqing, western China, saying that cloud services have been heavily promoted by the city government as a boom there, which indicates that government's push can effectively make consumers more familiar with cloud services.

Wang called for the Taiwanese government to set up cloud services of policing and security, for instance, or entertainment and tourist information, which are always on demand and usable for the public. Through inaugurating its cloud services, the government can generate sustainable business chances to both integrated information service providers and hardware developers, while giving them an incentive to upgrade their technologies.

To further emphasize the necessity of government cloud services, Wang also pointed to the significance of system integration of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, a broadband network and cloud services, which allows consumers of pork products, for instance, to easily access needed information on place of origin and whether the pork contains ractopamine.

Wang also stated that the government should set a distinct objective to achieve and pinpoint target markets before directing efforts to its cloud services. By doing so, he said, Taiwan is more likely to stay ahead of the global trend for cloud computing in the future.