About Open Technology
Open Technology comprises Open Source, Open Data and Open Government. The goal of open technology is to ensure that the construction of our digital society, the collection of data and the functioning of government is all open, transparent and participation. By ensuring these principles, open technology aims to promote the implementation of digital rights and internet freedom, thus allowing for the realization of a digital civic society.
- Open Technology Meetups have been held since May 2024. The meetup topics are issues related to open technology for open discussion. We hope that through in-depth exchanges and discussions, we can continue to openly communicate with CSOs partners and the tech communities, With the joint discussions of related issues, OCF aims for connecting opportunities for cooperation to promote the formation of a local consensus on open technology in Taiwan.
See shared notes for our "Open Technology Meetups"： link (zh-Hant) - Open technology training and board game Open Source Star Village workshops is based on open technology, in line with the recent development of the Open Source Star Village board game, and has developed into teaching materials for various seminars, activities and collaborative lectures with universities and colleges, empowerment workshops and other diverse activities. OCF provides this comprehensive teaching materials in a gamifying form and a relaxing way, and aims to promote ideas of open technology and its potential applications for various fields of audience.
Open Source Star Hand Village board game and lesson plan resource website：link (en) - Policy whitepaper Open Technology - From Source Code, Data to the Government: How Open Shapes the Digital Society of the New Era describes open technologies’ (en) This manual defines open source, open data, open government and their associations and implementations in Taiwan. With this manual, OCF aims to help the government and advocates to better understand open and its context. The manual also includes OCF’s opinions and suggestions regarding the implementation of open.
Three Open and OCF Initiatives
Open Source – A Technological Solution with Public Participation
Open source code can promote product development and rapid industrial advancement. It is also the foundation of the digital age and the basis for promoting Internet freedom and digital human rights. Only when the production methods of source code and technology are more diversified and free from monopoly, can people participate in it and create a digital society that is fair, free and protects the rights and interests of users. Therefore, the concept of open source should not be limited to the open source code of software and hardware itself, but also the attitude and behavioral values that should be faced in the face of technological evolution. Our three main objectives for open source：
- Improve the Open Source Software Ecosystem
- Urge the Government’s Implementation of Public Money, Public Code (PMPC) to Achieve Open Technologies
- Encourages All Parties to Obtain OpenChain Certification to Reduce Legal Risks
Achievements and participation records
- [OCF Article] New ISO certification that will influence the industry：OpenChain open source compliance standard process and practice methods：link (zh-Hant)
- OCF Coaching KKCompany passed ISO/IEC 5230 certification：link (zh-Hant)
Open Data – The Cornerstone for Digital Transformation
The rapid development of the digital environment, the application of digital and Internet in daily life and government systems, has increased the possibility for "individuals" to participate in public decision-making, and "open data" is the cornerstone of realizing this ideal. Only by building open data can we truly achieve the goal of public participation and supervision and increase the transparency of government governance. The purpose of open data puts more emphasis on improving people's well-being rather than value-added applications at the economic level. The directions for continuing to promote open data are as follows：
- Legalizing the openness of government information
- Open data accessible to the people, value-added thinking for the people’s use
Achievements and participation records
- [Meeting Participation] Draft Reference Guidelines for the Development of Artificial Intelligence by the Judicial Yuan and Affiliated Agencies Public Hearing Summary and Viewpoints：link (zh-Hant)
- [Meeting Participation] Digital Healthcare Development Bill Public Hearing Speech Transcript：link (zh-Hant)
- [OCF Article] Ten years of hard work - Where is the legalization of open data stuck? ：link (zh-Hant)
- [OCF Article] Summary: How to solve the three major problems of open data? CC-BY-3.0 (Taiwan) Zhang Shuzhen, Open Culture Foundation：link (zh-Hant)
- [OCF Article] Taiwan ranks first in the world in open data, do NGOs approve? CC-BY OCF Lab - Lin & Chen：link (zh-Hant)
Open Government – Build a Government with Transparency, Efficiency, Public-Private Partnership and Accountability
OCF has been actively promoting open government since 2016. We assembled a non-government delegation to attend the Open Government Partner Global Summit throughout the years, and published the first non-governmental Taiwan Open Government Report (en) in 2017. With the Executive Yuan and Legislative Yuan deciding to adopt the OGP principles to formulate their own action plans in 2020, OCF was involved in the preparation and discussion of these action plans. Not only was OCF named a member of the first Open Government Committee, it also worked with the Executive Yuan to organize open government-related training and forums targeting the private sector, the general public and the international community. We will continue to promote open government and combine our initiatives with open technologies to promote open government data/information from both legal and international initiative perspectives. We will also increase the public’s knowledge and awareness about public-private partnership and open government.
In 2024, the second National Action Plan for Open Government began and called for proposals. OCF has accordingly submitted proposals based on the following directions: we connect and integrate our open source, open data and open government initiatives, focusing on the shortcomings of the government's open data system and establishing better citizen participation in open data and decision-making mechanisms. Our future promotion directions are as follows：
- Promote the promulgation of a special open data law and improve the data governance and application environment in Taiwan
- With the government promoting an open government action plan in compliance with the OGP principles, continue to encourage both the government and civic organizations to participate in open government affairs with the planning and execution of the commitments.
Achievements and participation records
- [Initiative] 2024 Second Executive Yuan Open Government Action Plan, OCF submitted five commitment proposals with the promotion of open data as the core. The core values include the development of open data needs to have a Roadmap as the core and how to enable citizens to participate and gain access to truly high-value information. For details of the proposal, please see：link (zh-Hant)
- [Report] OCF studies the opportunities and challenges of the Legislative Yuan’s cooperation with the private sector in an open Congress, and the research results are released：link (zh-Hant)
- [OCF Article] Promoting Taiwan’s Open Government and “Open Congress：link (en)
- [Report] Taiwan’s first private Open Government Observation Report was published in 2017：link (en)