Want China Times
Date: 2015-10-23
By: CNA

Five cities and counties in Taiwan — New Taipei, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung,

A view in Kaohsiung. (Photo/Hsieh Ming-tso)

Taitung county and Hsinchu county — were named Wednesday among the world’s Smart21 Communities of 2016 by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).

Their inclusion gives them the potential to be awarded as one of the seven Intelligent Communities of the Year. Other finalists include eight communities from Canada, two communities each from the United States and Australia, and one community each from Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden.     [FULL  STORY]