Targets 17. 6

Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.

Targets 17. 8

Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology.

Targets 17. 1 3　

Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence.

Targets 17. 14　

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

Targets 17. 16

Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multistakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries.

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Establish the Taipei Smart City Project Management Office

Since 2003, the City has actively constructed broadband infrastructure and Wi-Fi network application services with “digital city” and “action Taipei” as starting policies. In 2007, with the slogan “Smart City, Quality Life”, the City began strengthening broadband infrastructure and providing convenient municipal services, listing these measures as a key part of building a smart city.

Based on existing development efforts, the City continues to implement policies to “develop a smart city”. The “Taipei Smart City Project Management Office (TPMO)” was established to match different government offices to the expertise they need for their tasks, providing assistance in policy integration. The platform allows government offices to connect more easily, accelerating policy implementation and developing “top-down” and “bottom-up” policy promotion models. Through the proof-of-concept (PoC) model, the platform provides space and opportunities to assist the industries in promoting innovative smart solutions and producing relevant smart services. Presently, through public-private partnership supplemented by the PoC mechanism, the City has promoted more than 230 experimental projects.

In addition to actively using innovative technology to improve citizens' quality of life and develop Taipei into a smart city, the City also assists outstanding domestic smart city industries in forming international partnerships to expand Taipei's smart city development achievements and embrace both domestic and international innovation. In 2018, the City initiated the launch of GO SMART (Global Organization of Smart Cities, Global Smart Cities Alliance). The alliance was officially established in March 2019 after a year of preparation. Local governments from around the world as well as industrial and academic institutions are invited to join as members. GO SMART currently has nearly 200 members, including the six municipalities of Taiwan, as well as Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United States, Brazil, and other countries and cities. The alliance organizes the Smart City Summit & Expo every year. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 event was held in a virtual format, in which Taipei shared its “technological epidemic prevention” experiences, showing other cities how Taipei used technology to help restore the City's operations and economic growth. The City strives to enhance global partnerships for sustainable development by matching domestic and foreign public and private capabilities, providing information exchange in the form of sharing knowledge, professional skills, technologies, and project funding. By facilitating collaborations that extend beyond the boundaries of cities, Taipei City can help countries and cities around the world achieve sustainable development goals.

 

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Strengthen the importance of public health among global sustainable development partners in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open disclosure of epidemic prevention information

In 2020, in response to the severe COVID-19 pandemic, the City not only continued to engage with international organizations through video conferences, but also actively participated in various types of international virtual conferences to share epidemic prevention and city governance experiences. In 2020, Taipei City took part in a total of 23 video conferences. Additionally, international friendship cities and organizations, such as Ankara in Turkey and Seoul in South Korea, as well as the World Association of Major Metropolises and the UCLG ASPAC invited the City to join their international cities epidemic prevention information platform to share epidemic prevention information. On May 29, 2020, representatives from the representative office of New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Singapore met with Mayor Ko Wen-Je to share epidemic prevention experiences and deepen Taipei's international sustainable development partnerships.

To share the results of the City's epidemic prevention efforts with the global community, Taipei City established an English version of its COVID-19 epidemic prevention website and SOPs for the City's over 70 international cities and over 60 foreign offices to reference.

 

Donate medical resources to friendship cities and member cities of international organizations

As pandemic prevention is a global effort, the City donated epidemic prevention supplies such as masks and protective gowns to nine international cities, namely San Francisco, Boston, and Phoenix in the US, Manila and Quezon in the Philippines, Prague in the Czech Republic, Castries in Saint Lucia, Colombo in Sri Lanka, and Lalippur in Nepal. These efforts have helped Taipei's sister cities and member cities of international organizations combat the pandemic. In total, the City donated over 190,000 masks and 2,100 protective gowns.