The National Development Council (NDC) of announced today that it will launch a alliance in three months, English-language local media Taiwan News on March 26.
The NDC is the policy-related agency of Taiwan’s executive branch of government, known as the Executive Yuan.
Per the report, Minister Chen Mei-ling told the Smart City Summit & Expo in Taipei that the NDC has already consulted other departments, experts and academics in order to determine the purpose of the alliance.
Mei-ling reportedly expressed the hope that Taiwan may become an important hub in global development and use this technology to improve public governance. This declaration is in line with Taiwan’s that it will establish a new fundraising mechanism based on security offerings () at the beginning of the current month.
Taiwan News writes that the minister also lauded ’s potential in improving safety by tracking products through the supply chain.
The idea of tracing using technology has already been utilized by many companies globally.
As Cointelegraph at the beginning of the current month, largest branded shelf-stable seafood firm Bumble Bee Foods has launched a platform for seafood traceability. Even more recently, the National Pork Board with startup ripe.io to test out a platform for pork supply chains.
Published at Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:02:59 +0000