Internet use by Taiwanese aged 60 or older increased nearly 3 percentage points from 2019 to 2020, a report by the National Development Council (NDC) showed on Monday.
The report was presented by the council’s Department of Information Management during a committee meeting to discuss digital development and information trends in Taiwan.
Internet communication by Taiwanese aged 60 or older rose from 53.5 percent in 2019 to 56.2 percent in 2020.
It is often believed that Internet use drops after age 60, as reading text on a screen becomes increasingly difficult, department head Hsieh Tsui-chuan (謝翠娟) said.
However, the 3 percentage point jump was the highest growth rate among all age groups in 2020, the report showed.
Possible reasons are that people reaching that age bracket today are more likely to have become used to the Internet being in their lives, and that the Internet is more essential now for keeping in touch with friends, children and grandchildren, Hsieh said.
The report also showed that 65.2 percent of people surveyed in the past three months said that they used the Internet on a near daily basis, averaging 6.7 days per week.
ONLINE ADDICTION
Meanwhile, Taiwanese aged 20 to 29 are the most prone to Internet addiction, at 11.2 percent, it said.
This was followed by the 12 to 17 age group at 9.6 percent, and the 30 to 39 age group at 9.1 percent. Internet addiction among people aged 18 to 59 ranged from 6.9 percent to 8.6 percent, although the NDC did not provide details on how it determined these figures.
The top three online activities in which people engage are instant messaging (83.6 percent), video entertainment (76 percent), and searching for products and information online (65.4 percent), the report showed.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智伃) and Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday evening last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said today. The three KMT officials led an assembly outside the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office, a restricted area where public assembly is not allowed, protesting the questioning of several KMT staff and searches of KMT headquarters and offices in a recall petition forgery case. Chu, Yang and Hsieh are all suspected of contravening the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) by holding
PRAISE: Japanese visitor Takashi Kubota said the Taiwanese temple architecture images showcased in the AI Art Gallery were the most impressive displays he saw Taiwan does not have an official pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, because of its diplomatic predicament, but the government-backed Tech World pavilion is drawing interest with its unique recreations of works by Taiwanese artists. The pavilion features an artificial intelligence (AI)-based art gallery showcasing works of famous Taiwanese artists from the Japanese colonial period using innovative technologies. Among its main simulated displays are Eastern gouache paintings by Chen Chin (陳進), Lin Yu-shan (林玉山) and Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖), who were the three young Taiwanese painters selected for the East Asian Painting exhibition in 1927. Gouache is a water-based
Taiwan would welcome the return of Honduras as a diplomatic ally if its next president decides to make such a move, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. “Of course, we would welcome Honduras if they want to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after their elections,” Lin said at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, when asked to comment on statements made by two of the three Honduran presidential candidates during the presidential campaign in the Central American country. Taiwan is paying close attention to the region as a whole in the wake of a
OFF-TARGET: More than 30,000 participants were expected to take part in the Games next month, but only 6,550 foreign and 19,400 Taiwanese athletes have registered Taipei city councilors yesterday blasted the organizers of next month’s World Masters Games over sudden timetable and venue changes, which they said have caused thousands of participants to back out of the international sporting event, among other organizational issues. They also cited visa delays and political interference by China as reasons many foreign athletes are requesting refunds for the event, to be held from May 17 to 30. Jointly organized by the Taipei and New Taipei City governments, the games have been rocked by numerous controversies since preparations began in 2020. Taipei City Councilor Lin Yen-feng (林延鳳) said yesterday that new measures by
RSS