老人照顧老人

老人照顧老人，老年化社會的悲劇頻傳。

另一方面，已有業者開發了居家照護服務或產品，如：

台灣本地服務商
http://www.evercare.com.tw/
http://www.tunstall.com.tw/home/

美國產品
http://www.gosilverplus.com/

【數字看台灣】大麥克指數

有趣的指標，以食物即麥當勞之大麥克(被認為是最容易被通貨膨脹影響的商品)在當地售價與美國本地售價之比較。這是2010年經濟學人(Economist)編列的大麥克指數(Big Mac Index)
(見http://www.bigmacindex.org/index.html)

1. Taiwan Implied PPP of the dollar = 20.1
是說依照相對美國之大麥克售價，1美元應該等同於20.1(75/3.73)新台幣，但實質匯率是32.1新台幣，經濟學人以此推斷，新台幣是被低估了。

地球日，國光石化被判死刑

2011-04-22 Earth Day, 地球日，Google Home Page, 國光石化被判死刑

【數字看台灣】The Global Information Technology Report 2010–2011

由世界經濟論壇(World Economic Forum)與歐洲企管學院(INSEAD)出版的全球IT技術報告：
"The Global Information Technology Report 2010–2011, Transformations 2.0"

• 過往10年ICT(information and communication technologies)改變了世界。
• 未來的期待 transformations 2.0 [見證於2011年茉莉花革命]
• NRI： Networked Readiness Index
• The emerging Internet economy going into the future
• Building communities around digital highways
• The promise of technology
• ICT's growing impact on poverty reduction
• Meeting the decade's challenges, organization reinvention
• Recognize one's "value zone," the place where frontline employees interact with the people of one's customers or other stakeholders and where innovation, and implementation of innovations, typically occurs
• Create trust through transparency, so that people care enough about their organization to seek and seize opportunities to generate innovative and value-creating solutions.
• Invert the organizational pyramid, as an acknowledgment that frontline employees are the ones typically creating value for their organization and stakeholders—and to empower those employees to do that.
• Nurture new leaders and new kinds of leaders, often younger employees who eschew hierarchy and thrive in the collaborative environment required to solve today's problems
• Localization 2.0(文化、法律、習俗), 英語和西方的business practice 仍為主流，but for how long?
• ICT for an effective social strategy
• The creation of a fiber future and the regulatory challenge
• Mobile banking in the emerging world

GDP (PPP) per capita (PPP $), 2009 ................31,776
Households w/ personal computer, %.................69.4 (家戶電腦比例)

Broadband Internet subscribers/100 pop.............21.4 (寬頻訂戶)

TW 排名有進步

整體環境分數有待改進

Readiness 分數

使用分數最佳

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