MND website seminar draws over 100 officers
MND website seminar draws over 100 officers
Workshop held to enhance military personnel’s understanding and knowledge of ministry’s site
By Joseph Yeh
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Over one hundred military officers participated in a workshop held by the Ministry of National Defense on August 12 to enhance their understanding and knowledge regarding the MND’s official website and on the governmental portals’ classification retrieval system.
“The workshop is meant to help military personnel learn more about the MND’s official website and on how to expand the various services provided by the site to make it more accessible to the general public,” said Deputy Minister of National Defense Lin Yu-pao in the opening remarks he delivered at the beginning of the workshop.
In the digital age, Taiwan’s military should follow the world trend of digitalization and the immense transformative power of technology and innovation to improve itself in various ways including improving its website, said Lin.
Lin noted that the ministry had set up its official website in 1996 and since then, the website has won credit from the Executive Yuan for providing rich information about the ministry to the Taiwanese people.
The site, however, still has a great deal of room for improvement and there are plans to broaden its content so that anyone wishing to learn more about Taiwan’s military and the country’s national defense would enjoy visiting the site regularly, he said.
The MND’s site should also provide more on-line services as well as materials on all-out Defense education, he noted.
The workshop, which lasted for three hours, began with a lecture made by Hsu Chia-ling, a system analyst of the Development of Information Management at the Cabinet-level Research, Development and Evaluation Commission.
Hsu said it is of primary importance that the central government and its organizations such as the MND should be able to provide a classification retrieval service system in their portal websites.
Taking the England and United States governments websites as examples, Hsu said both of them have sites equipped with efficient full-text search engines allowing people to quickly find the information they need.
Settling up a classification retrieval service system or a full-text search engine in these websites not only make it more convenient for people to search for the information they need, but can also help each government branch to systematically categorize all the information stored in their websites, she added.
Following Hsu’s lecture, Chang Ying-chung, senior executive officer of the MND’s Inspection Office, made his report on the Categorized Administrative Knowledge Entity, a framework drafted by the Executive Yuan to sort out the government information.
The final lecture of the workshop was made by Ring Lai, Deputy Project Manager of Interweb Technology Corporation, whose company organized the workshop.
Her lecture was on the maintenance of the MND’s official website, teaching military officers how to upload, download as well as edit files on the site.
A total number of 102 military personnel from military units around the island participated in the workshop held at the MND’s Poai Building in Taipei on the afternoon of August 12.
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