---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 14 Aug 2003 (HL) New in IGCS - Politics: The e-Government Entry Point of Taiwan Ed./Corp.: Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, Taibei, Taiwan. URL.: http://www.gov.tw/ Language: Chinese (Big5), English. Self description: This website is a unified gateway to the government's public services and a high-speed communication link between the government and the people. It allows users to query a wide range of government information and perform online application tasks. Description: A 2002 study of global e-government undertaken by researchers at Brown University (USA) lists Taiwan as best in e-government performance, followed by South Korea, Canada and the United States. Reviewed were 1,197 national government websites in 198 countries during June and July, 2002. Among the sites analyzed were those of executive offices, legislative offices, judicial offices, Cabinet offices, and major agencies serving crucial functions of government, such as health, human services, taxation, education, interior, economic development, administration, natural resources, foreign affairs, foreign investment, transportation, military, tourism, and business regulation. More than two dozen different criteria were used for evaluation, including the availability of contact information, publications, databases, portals, privacy, security, disability access, and the number of online services. Contents: (1) Indices (Government Web pages; Government addresses; Government email addresses); (2) Application form services; (3) Living (Weather; Culture; Books and libraries; Medical services; Tourist information; Traffic and transport); (4) News services; (5) General information; and others. Resource suggested by Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg University, Germany. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno E. Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html