台灣數位落差的現狀與政策

Digital Divide in Taiwan: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies

葉俊榮(Jiunn-Rong Yeh)

《研考雙月刊》 30卷1期 (2006/02) Pp. 3-16

https://doi.org/10.6978/YKSYK.200602.0003

摘要

在當代知識經濟社會中，資訊科技的快速發展帶來進步，也形成數位落差的問題。數位落差會隨著資訊科技的變遷而改變其內涵，而背後又受到區域差異以及社經背景因素的影響。本文探討數位落差對於台灣社經環境造成的衝擊，並思考政府與民間社會因應數位落差的態度。
在研究方法上，本文首先利用文獻回顧學界對於數位落差的觀點。其次，透過研考會針對台灣數位落差所所的實證調查，探討地理區域和社經因素對於數位落差的影響。最後，本文檢視政府「數位台灣計畫」中關於縮短數位落差的政策，以及國際間對於台灣縮短數位落差政策的評比。
本文認為縮短數位落差有助於落實電子民主以及資訊人權。向於政府的規劃，台灣推動縮短數位落差已經獲得相當的成就，也獲得國際間的肯定。但是縮短數位落差是個動態而持續的觀念，未來仍要針對處於數位弱勢的群眾，設計更友善的內容及設備；並擴大建立資訊代理人概念；同時，補助經濟弱勢族群以減緩資訊設備間的不公平；還有推動企業e化及推動電子商務發展，縮短企業數位落差並強化其競爭力。最後，本文認為縮短數位落差政策必須形成結合區域需求、民間活力與產業發展的整體觀念，才能將數位落差轉換為社會發展的數位機會。

關鍵字

數位落差 ； 數位台灣計畫 ； 電子化政府 ； 電子民主

並列摘要

In modern knowledge-economy society, although the developments of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) make the great progress, ICTs also bring the occurrence of digital divide. As a dynamic concepts, the change of ICTs influence the contents of digital divide, furthermore, the gap of digital divide also been effected by the regional disparity and socioeconomic factors. This paper analyzes the challenges of a digital divide in Taiwan society, and following strategies to dissolve the problems of knowledge gap.
This paper reviews the relative researches of a digital divide and use the empirical data of 2005 Taiwan Digital Divide Survey Report to analyze the influences of urban-rural gap and socioeconomic factors. Moreover, the paper examines the efficiency of official ”E-Taiwan Program” in reducing digital divide policy.
This paper argues reducing digital divide policy would be helpful to enforce digital democracy and digital human rights. Because of complete technology policy planning, the achievements in reducing digital divide have earned international recognition. In the future, Taiwan has to design more friendly contents and information equipments, extend the concept of information agent. Besides, Government also should subsidize economic minorities to lesson the digital inequality, and promote industrial electronization and electronic business to leap digital divide. Faced on the challenges of reducing digital divide, Taiwan must combine the capacity of public sector; private sector and regional needs to transfer digital divide into digital opportunity.

並列關鍵字

digital divide ； e-Taiwan ； e-government ； electronic democracy