Some People Shaping Taiwan's ICT

a Social Perspective

The ICT Professors

What are the society's expectations ...

1. ... on computer professionals
2. ... on professors
3. ... on employees

What do we expect a computer professor to do when his University's computers are under attack?

Case 1: Privacy Problems with Flash

1. Hackers can remote control your webcam and mic, Adobe issues ‘critical’ advisory
2. Adobe Flash 用戶: 請笑一個給世界看, 您上鏡頭了!
3. How to Hack and Spy through anyone's Webcam

Yet I know of no ICT professors (other than myself) publicly discussing Taiwan's heavy and unnecessry dependency on Adobe Flash

Case 2: Security Problems with IE

1. Dump Internet Explorer Now (Technical advice after Google China's attack by crackers)
2. Jan 15. Attack code used to hack Google now public
3. Jan 20. Widespread attacks exploit newly patched IE bug
4. Jan 21. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2010
5. German government warns against using MS Explorer; also French Government

Yet I know of no ICT professors (other than myself) publicly discussing Taiwan's heavy and unnecessry dependency on MS IE. See also 大學不敢談的資訊安全問題 (瀏覽器戰爭裡的宗教狂熱)

More Cases

1. docx vs odt: Is it important to have a sustainable ICT policy?
2. KB971033: Windows anti-piracy police living in your home
3. DRM and Other Forces Overriding the Three Laws of Robotics
4. Help Debuking Expensive Cloud Hype @ Taiwan

Yet I know of no ICT professors (other than myself) publicly discussing these issues.

The ICT Professors Are Not Responsible

ICT professors are responsible for producing papers and/or helping the ICT industry making money. They are neither responsible for advising the society (or even their employers and students) of security issues, nor responsible for the sustainability of the ICT products they introduce.

ICT professors are shaping the future of Taiwan's ICT in an interesting way that is very different from the society's imagination. 科技融入教育: 產值觀點或教育觀點?

The Tourism Business

"Mother Tongue Internet Cafe": Make Your Foreign Customers Feel at Home with Tux USB Keys

The tourism business could but have not begun shaping Taiwan's ICT in a positive way. (Nor in Japan: see pictures of 秋葉原 あきはばら below)

The NPO/NGO's

Tux USB Keys Can Make Your Donated Computers Greener, Cleaner, More Ethical, and More Educational

The NPO/NGO's, especially community colleges, are beginning to choose ignored technologies that best suit their goals and principles. But they are probably shaping the ICT of other countries than they do that of Taiwan.

The Teachers and a Few Youngsters

Eric will present the stories of OSSACC, the Open Source Software Application Counciling Center. The important roles here include many primary school teachers, college students (not necessarily majoring in ICT), and amateurs.