Premier Mao Chi-kuo today enjoined the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to integrate its disaster-prevention and -relief system with the Ministry of the Interior's Emergency Management Information Cloud (EMIC) services to augment disaster-prevention information exchanges, sharing and applications.
Besides introducing new information technologies, via information linkages between central and local governments and capitalizing on citizens' online community forces, the system can deliver optimal results in disaster-prevention and relief through the joint efforts of the government and private sector.
The premier made these remarks at today's Cabinet meeting after he was briefed by the MOST on the current circumstances and future prospects for intelligent disaster-relief and -prevention information management and platform sharing.
Smart disaster-prevention is part of the ide@ Taiwan 2020 policy white paper, Mao stated. The relevant sub-projects in the white paper harbor a common theme: open data and making use of big data.
The MOST in recent years has been working to integrate the government's disaster-prevention data, incorporating them into a cloud platform for value-added applications, the premier noted. A good start was the government's incorporation of private-sector online communities' real-time disaster information as an important reference for decision-making when Typhoon Soudelor swept through Taiwan this year. The government's use of this information, which had been ignored in the past, garnered preliminary results. The premier commended the MOST for its efforts.
The MOST stated that its disaster-prevention promotion is based on the objectives of expediting information flow, capitalizing on private-sector mobilization strengths, enhancing government decision-making, and increasing awareness of the government's efforts. In order to increase mobility, diversity and synergy, the ministry has been improving the collection and application of disaster-prevention information and expanding the government's disaster-prevention information and cloud-platform services.
Furthermore, the MOST has established an interactive model with new media technologies, enhanced the participation of online communities and the public, and consolidated the information-sharing mechanisms between central and local governments to achieve the goals of eliminating distances of time and space, and of establishing a unified command.