A Study of Information and Communication Technology Indicators in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Rita Juan, 阮靜如
• Other Authors: Quang-Hua Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00461108818008221258

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 91 === To scan the rapidly changing infocomm landscape as well as to track the effectiveness of the government’s ICT programmes and initiatives, the key indicators of information are issued by many international organizations for measuring the countrys’ degree of information and communication technology. However there is little research concerning Information and Communication Technology Indicators at present; therefore the purpose of this research is to construct Information and Communication Technology Indicators, understand the Taiwan’s situation of Information and Communication Technology development, and compare with the data of EU to evaluate the Taiwan’s result of Information and Communication Technology development. In this research, the Maturity of electronic commerce model is used as a conceptual framework, and it is built of 11 indicators. The evaluation of national development degree of information and communication technology is through the output of each concerns’ single index by the principle component analysis method and by the cluster analysis method, integrates these outputs to gain the whole national ICT development evaluating results. The results show: The whole national competitiveness evaluation, by the classifying results, the three national competitiveness clusters of Taiwan and EU: Cluster 1 is named as “ The leading group”, including Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and U.K.; Cluster 2 is named as “ The developing group”, including Italy, Luxembourg, Austria and Taiwan; Cluster 3 is named as and “ The unpolluted and lower development group” , including Greece, Spain and Portugal.