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, 9 NGO's projects were selected in 2021.

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 2 non-profit groups that passed the proposal review. 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.

The Taiwan School on Internet Governance (TWSIG)

TWSIG founded by Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), is a platform that aims to encourage the local community’s discussion regarding public policy issues of Internet Governance.

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 School on Internet Governance (TWSIG), 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 TWSIG 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. (March 24) What does the EU Digital Market Act regulate? Does it has anything to do with Parler de-platforming?
2. (April 21) Taxing development and difficulties in digital economy
3. (May 26) Gender discrimination and violence in social media
4. (June 24) A deep dive into Taiwan’s digital inequality
5. (July 14) How should Taiwan understand digital sovereignty?
6. (August 5) What changes will quantum computing bring to our future of technology?
7. (August 26) How do we deal with algorithms in the attention economy?
8. (September 8) Cross-border data flows: data governance and international trade
9. (October 27) Encryption technologies: how to balance between privacy and security
10. (November 18) Creating a future together with digital technologies

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

Joint organization of the 2021 Taiwan Internet Governance Forum