The National Development Council held the “2019 Government Open Data Award Ceremony” in Avenue, Taipei City on the 17th. After winning the Gold Medal in the 2018 “Open Data Award” in Category 2 – Regional Government, Changhua won the Gold Medal again this year. Director Shih, Min-Hua of the Planning Department, Changhua County Government attended the ceremony and received the award on behalf of Magistrate Wang, Huei-Mei from Director-General Chen, Mei-Ling of the National Development Council.

“Open data” is the opening of electronic data, including texts, references, graphics, images, audio files, and metadata in accordance with the law, obtainable and conducted under the authority of each agency. The data is put on the internet in an open format for the use of people, schools, groups, enterprises, or government agencies in accordance with different needs,

The “Gold Medal for Open Data Award” presented by the Executive Yuan aims to encourage agencies at all levels to promote data quality and provide accurate, easy-to-use, and structural data. It is reviewed in three aspects of “obtainability,” “easy processing”, “easy understanding”, for data set on open platforms of government agencies at all levels. Then, the results will be further evaluated in accordance with the integrity. Winners will be presented the Gold Medal, Silver Medal, and Bronze Medal. At present, on the open platform of the Changhua County Government, 378 data sets are provided. All of them were presented with the Gold Medal. It is a difficult task indeed.

In the future, the Changhua County Government will continue to open its data to promote the quantity, quality, and value of open data to provide innovative government services. Authorizing the use of open data to private sectors, it will satisfy the needs of the general public for the demand of open data. Likewise, the governance will become transparent and open, promoting data exchange among agencies, quality of decision making, the development of diverse customer service, and the transformation of information industry, and other benefits to constitute win-win situations among people, the government, and businesses.