Smart Taipei Innovation Award
The city of Taipei envisions "livable sustainability with smart cities as the driving force" in its pursuit of smart urban development. To effectively implement relevant policies, the Taipei Smart City Project Office (TPMO) was established in 2016. Adopting the concept of a "Living Lab," public spaces were opened for private enterprises to conduct service verification. This allowed the introduction of industry creativity and resources, and enabled the application of smart technology solutions. Through collaborative efforts between the government and private entities, smart city Proof of Concept (PoC) projects were executed, giving rise to "Smart Taipei."
Following the "Taipei Smart City Industry Field Experiment and PoC Program," many concept verifications have been successfully completed over the years. To encourage active participation from businesses, the annual "Smart Taipei Innovation Award" was initiated in 2020. It aims to select outstanding PoC projects each year and recognize them with awards to demonstrate city government’s encouragement. Additionally, through organizing showcase events, the TPMO strengthens publicity efforts, allowing more industry players and the general public to understand the verification process and contributions of these exceptional projects.
2020 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards
The Department of Information Technology, Taipei City Government launched the inaugural " Smart Taipei Innovation Awards " in 2020. The awards aim to select outstanding collaborative projects through an annual trial project selection process, honoring those that have achieved remarkable results.
The selection process for the "2020 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards" involved two stages of evaluation, focusing on factors such as the completeness of project implementation scenarios, execution status, and level of innovation. As a result, 5 projects were awarded the exceptional, and 10 projects to be distinguished, making a total of 15 selected teams.
2021 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards
The Department of Information Technology, Taipei City Government continued the second edition of the "2021 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards" actively encouraged teams collaborating with various government agencies to participate in experimental projects. After a four-month period, the projects underwent two rounds of evaluations by internal and external reviewers, focusing on five criteria: innovation, completeness of planning, effectiveness of field trials, feasibility, and data integrity. Based on these criteria, 5 exceptional projects and 6 distinguished projects were ultimately selected as award-winning entries.
2022 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards
The Department of Information Technology, Taipei City Government continued the third consecutive "2022 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards" the awards aim to select outstanding collaborative projects through an annual trial project selection process, and honoring those that have achieved remarkable results.
This year, quite a few excellent projects were proposed by the related city government departments for “2022 Smart Taipei Innovation Awards.” These PoC projects were reviewed and evaluated by internal and external experts in terms of their innovation, planning inclusion, field experiment benefit, future feasibility and data integrity. Through two sections of review written documentation review and the presentation, 10 projects were awarded this year, among them, 3 and 7 projects were selected as exceptional and distinguished respectively.
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