National Development Council Blueprint for First 100 Days Roundtable

NDC Director
Mathematics major, worked for IBM, PWC, and taught big data at a university, was a backpacker in Italy for 13 days.

  • The macroeconomy is good: growth is projected to be 3.9% this year, but is uneven. Electronic components, ICT, and servers account for 58% of value-added of GDP when 60% of Taiwanese work in services.
  • During the pandemic, exports went through the roof but most people still suffered.
  • The service sector doesn’t have world-class industries.
  • The manufacturing sector’s contribution to employment and GDP isn’t very high, but there are very many world-class enterprises.
  • We will pull up the IT services sector, help it in 3 ways: (1) increase productivity (2) increase capital (3) increase product efficiency, with help from AI transformation of industry.
  • We will create a tech hub for future development, with help of NIST, Ministry of Digital Affairs. It will have an AI development center and ecosystem.
  • We will have an international collaboration ecosystem.
  • We will increase investment in startups from $70 billion NT to $150 billion NT.
  • We’ve established centers in Tokyo and Silicon Valley to lead our startups.

What a blessing it is being a permanent resident of a country where adults are in charge.The only thing better would be becoming a citizen.