Taiwan needs to elevate its information technology and their applications to maintain competitiveness in the international community, an analyst at the Institute for Information Industry (資策會) said yesterday.
Chou shu-ling of the institute's Market Intelligence Center said that Taiwan's information technology application was behind the standard of industrial advanced countries, though the popularity of telephones, mobile phones and the Internet has reached international standards.
The information specialist said that the public sector's information technology applications were limited to data processing and lacked interactions.
He added that the private sector's information technology applications improved over the past year, though the level was still behind most industrial countries.
Taiwan will have difficulties in maintaining its position as the world's fourth-largest hardware supplier, if it fails to upgrade its level of information technological applications, according to the analyst. In the past three years, Taiwan's hardware output has continued to drop.
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