For its close relations to the highly-controversial issues such as personal data protection and social ethics, human biobank needs both a decent internal ethic monitoring system and an external monitoring and inspection from the authority concerned. Department of Health of the Executive Yuan(DOH), on the basis of Article 4 Paragraph 2 of "Human Biobank Management Act"(The Act), made its first declaration of the Draft Regulation on the Management and the Establishment Permission of Human Biobank (The Draft) to the public on May 27th, 2010 and its second declaration on December 29th, 2010.after receiving the comments from all circles....[more]

To promote the cross-strait relationship to step forward and achieve the goal, which co-development by economic reciprocal cooperation ways, Taiwan and China held the 6^th Chiang-Chen talks, and signed the cross-strait agreement on medical health cooperation on December 12, 2010....[more]

The MOEA announced "Regulation on Ministry of Economic Affairs Enhancing Research Institutes for the Industrial Innovation and Research and Development" (The Innovation Regulation) in November 2010. The Innovation Regulation will regulate all the MOEA subsidized the technology development programs with the authorization of the "Statute for Industrial Innovation."...[more]

"Intelligent Taiwan" is one of the projects of "iTaiwan 12 Projects", proposed by the Science and Technology Advisory Group of Executive Yuan, and the effectiveness of the promotion of is remarkable....[more]

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Mobile TV is an important example of digital convergence, a concept at the heart of European Commission´s i2010 strategy for the Information Society. To promote the introduction and take-up of nascent market of broadcast terrestrial mobile TV across EU, the Commission presented its Communication of 18 July 2007 " Strengthening the Internal Market for Mobile TV"....[more]

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Recognised that Research infrastructures (RIs) are at the centre of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation and play an increasingly important role in the advancement of knowledge and technology, the EU began to finance for the establishments of RIs by its Framework Programmes (FPs) since the start of FP2 of 1987....[more]

Over the past ten years, many countries around the world have employed Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to help meet the challenges of surface transportation....[more]