TWNIC Charity Campaign

The TWNIC commits itself to social responsibility. Since 2001, the TWNIC has held the charity campaign to establish the brand images of .tw/.台灣 domain name services, gather resources for shortening the digital divide in Taiwan. This campaign is aimed at creating hope through domain name registration by allocating a fixed proportion of domain name registration fees toward public welfare projects, through call for proposal, 10 NGO's projects were selected in 2020.

Executing the .tw digital charity project

To give back to society, the TWNIC initially held a .tw reserved domain name auction and donated the income to the non-profit group that passed the proposal review: the Taiwan Digital Diplomacy Association. The charity project sought project proposals to build comprehensive digital services, reduce digital divides, and popularize information education to assist digitally disadvantaged groups and improving their access to digital participation rights, which are needed in the digital age.

Organizing the Taiwan Online Lecture Series

In the digital age, netizens can voice their opinions on various topics as well as engage in communication and discussion with others to understand diverse global opinions. To fulfill its social responsibility and honor the notion of co-ownership, co-governance, and sharing, the TWNIC has promoted a public lecture series in Taiwan since 2020; the TWNIC hopes that this lecture series serves as a public forum that accommodates the interaction of multiple perspectives in examining critical network-related topics from a technical, economic, social, and security perspective both inside and outside Taiwan. Through the Taiwan Online Lecture Series, the TWNIC hopes to integrate and facilitate discussions among Taiwanese online communities on diverse public policy topics on Internet governance. Together with other online communities in Taiwan, the TWNIC endeavors to create an online public promotion platform for network matters specifically for the Taiwanese context. 

The TWNIC and National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NII) have coplanned a series of Taiwan Online Lecture. The TWNIC hopes that these seminars and speeches serve as a means for observing critical topics in international Internet governance, and that the implications and impacts of these issues for Taiwan can be further examined. The TWNIC also hopes that (1) the multistakeholder communication model can be promoted through these activities, (2) that this model can be used to determine the convergence and divergence in opinions related to various public policies for the Internet, and (3) that a governance method that considers the perspective of diverse populations and stakeholders can be established. The topic for each session is as follows:

1. The secession crisis of the global network: decoding the IGF2019
2. Who is eavesdropping? The conflict between smart lifestyle and privacy security concerns of smart speakers.
3. Machine facial recognition: Human face recognition and human rights challenges in the digital age
4. COVID-19 and digital governance: Drawing the privacy boundary and combating fake news
5. DNS-over-HTTPS and Internet governance: Has goodwill in privacy protection turned into online bullying?
6. When AI meets the pandemic: Should innovation be encouraged or regulated?
7. Is instigating a cyber-attack tantamount to instigating a war?
8. Utilizing digital technology in connecting the past and the future, and working hand-in-hand with the global public to create the future
9. Freedom of speech and content review: Who is responsible for the content postings of out-of-control users?
10. Taiwan @ global submarine cables: Status and future trends, risks, and strategies
11. The detention and confiscation of domain names: actual law-enforcement practices as the core

Identification of the source of false information spreading: Presentation session of COVID-19-based research results

Using COVID-19 as a case study, the current researchers analyzed 1,664,647 fan postings on Facebook and obtained data for the two data fields of domain and subdomain; this endows the community data with an extensibility that combines domain traffic flow data and IP data. This study was conducted from the perspective of public policy and focused on the public power of the Taiwanese government and competent authorities, as well as Simplified and Traditional Chinese content of unknown sources, in order to explore relevant data and establish a process for identifying and analyzing the source of false information. Our objective is to conduct a more in-depth discussion on the relevant research of false information and media literacy among the online communities in Taiwan, and to assist relevant units in establishing a regular tracking mechanism.

The New Top-Level Domain Name and Digital Brand Summit

Since the full privatization of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) name registration service in 1999, the number of registered domain has reached 370,000,000 globally; the number of new generic top-level domain (new gTLD) names, which have been open for application since 2012, has also reached 35,000,000. As many as 1,600 suffix options for Chinese and English generic domain names and national domain names are now available for registration.
Due to the diverse and complex information on global new top-level domain names, most brand managers have limited knowledge of domain name registries and registrars as well as approaches to safeguarding their valuable digital assets—namely domain names.

Top-level domain names will continue to be opened up in the future, and this is likely to generate an impact on the Taiwan government, enterprises, and network users. In the context of tight integration and mutual influence of the interconnected global network, the TWNIC is the only nonprofit organization that coordinates top-level domain name registration in Taiwan. Moreover, the TWNIC is proactively involved in researching topics related to global Internet governance and the ecological system and application trends of top-level domain names. In said research, the TWNIC incorporates the opinions of the major stakeholders in Taiwan, in order to facilitate the long-term tracking of the relevant agencies to enable them to make relevant preparations even before the commencement of the application process.

The TWNIC continues supporting the development of Taiwanese network communities and co-organizes relevant seminars.

• DTA-TWNIC industrial innovation trend conference （1/3）
• Joint organization of the 2020 Taiwan Internet Governance Forum （11/11-12）