(1) ITRI is a not-for-profit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan’s economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry. ITRI is a world-leading applied technology research institute with more than 6,000 outstanding employees. Its mission is to drive industrial development, create economic value, and enhance social well-being through technology R&D. Founded in 1973, it pioneered in IC development and started to nurture new tech ventures and deliver its R&D results to industries. ITRI has set up and incubated over 280 companies, including listed companies such as TSMC, UMC, Taiwan Mask Corp., Epistar Corp., Mirle Automation Corp., and Taiwan Biomaterial Co. (2) On 17th May 1979, Executive Yuan passed the “Proposal on Science and Technology Development” in its 1663 Grand Meeting, resolving to incorporate a non-governmental organization— “Institute for Information Industry” (“III”) through the joint efforts of public and private sectors, as to “promote effective application of information technology, increase national comprehensive competitiveness, create preconditions and environment for information industry to develop, and to strengthen the competitiveness of information industry.”In recent 40 years, III has taken part in planning and promoting public policies related to information industry. It has contributed to the pioneer research and development in information and communication technology, the deepening and broadening of information applications, the training and education of talents in this field and the participation in building infrastructure for national information technology.
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Appier
Appier helps businesses solve their most challenging problems with artificial intelligence. It is a partner to some of the world’s leading brands, providing a suite of enterprise-grade products to support data-driven decisions and accelerate business growth. Established in 2012 by a passionate team of computer scientists and engineers, Appier now has more than 400 people across 15 offices and is recognized as a Top 50 AI company by Fortune Magazine. Appier has raised US$162 million in funding from investors including Sequoia, Softbank, and Line. Learn more at www.appier.com
Moxa
Moxa is a leading provider of edge connectivity, industrial computing, and network infrastructure solutions for enabling connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things. With over 30 years of industry experience, Moxa has connected more than 65 million devices worldwide and has a distribution and service network that reaches customers in more than 80 countries. Moxa delivers lasting business value by empowering industry with reliable networks and sincere service for industrial communications infrastructures. Information about Moxa’s solutions is available at www.moxa.com.
Google Developers
Google Developers inspire developers with the possibilities of Google technology. We use a combination of technical advocacy, community & programs, and great docs & content to help developers at scale.
KKBOX
KKBOX, Asia’s leading music streaming service, was established in 2005 by a group of Taiwanese software programmers with a shared passion for technology and music. KKBOX features over 50 million legal tracks and is currently available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia with over 10 million users.
We are committed to creating a truly immersive online music experience to users, and to empower artists and their music through technological innovation. KKBOX members gain access to exclusive video, artist interviews, live concert reports, entertainment news. Only from KKBOX, ‘Listen with’ lets you in on the same tracks as your friends and favorite artists, so you can chat as you listen in real time. The yearly KKBOX Music Awards marks KKBOX’s position in the Asian music scene.
MySQL
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database. With its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by over 3,000 ISVs & OEMs.
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To organizations in need of an open source, ACID-compliant transnational database delivering real-time in-memory performance and 99.999 percent availability, Oracle offers MySQL Cluster. MySQL Cluster powers the subscriber databases of major communications service providers and is used in global fraud detection for financial transactions.
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Oracle drives MySQL innovation, constantly improving MySQL solutions and delivering new capabilities to power next generation web, cloud, mobile and embedded applications.
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Gamesofa
Gamesofa was founded in 2005, and through excellence in core web technologies, has developed over 30 multiplayer games across multiple platforms including web, iOS and Android.
It has cemented its reputation as Taiwan’s leading game development company. Gamesofa’s motto, “Fun in Five Minutes” reflects the company’s core philosophy. It successfully brought Taiwan its very first online web Mahjong game “Gamesofa Mahjong,” and followed that success with the world’s first browser-based 3D shooter, “Guns Rush.” More recently, Gamesofa has gone international, breaking into markets in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and North America with Texas Hold’em, local card game, and Social casino slots apps. Gamesofa boasts a user base of over 50 million registered users worldwide, and over 2 million daily active users. In addition to its constant drive to innovate in game development, Gamesofa has become an industry leader at employing data analysis to drive operational decisions. This allows product development, operations, and marketing teams to use data analysis tools and model projections to quickly grasp emerging situations and draw up strategies. Gamesofa is a company full of youth, passion, and proficiency.
OpenChain
The OpenChain Project maintains the industry standard for open source compliance. The OpenChain Project is part of the ecosystem and participation is open to all. The OpenChain industry standard is expected to become an ISO/IEC standard in 2020.
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Rayark
Rayark is a gaming company located in Taipei, working hard at developing original IPs for players to enjoy.
Starting out on mobile platforms, we now have games across multiple platforms and genres. From rhythm games, casual games, sci-fi action to strategy RPGs…etc. We are always experimenting with more ways to bring a lively experience to our player base.
We at Rayark strive to deepen our games and what they represent, trying to expand the limits of what a game can do. In doing so, we strive to give each of our players an unforgettable experience.
See more: https://www.rayark.com/en/
Skymirror
Established in 2011, Sky Mirror Technology Co., Ltd. specialized in AI、big data、mathematical statistics、UI/UX. Backed by excellent technology and professional service, several high-quality products and services have entered the market. In order to satisfy the diversity needs of our customers, we encourage our employees to learn and adapt creativity and vatality in our products. Skymirror has three subsidiaries listed as follows. BBAR – online food ordering & discount platform The main service of BBar Co., Ltd. is online food ordering with special discount. The BBar platform provides instant order for groups. Even if you are late for dinner or sitting at different tables, you can enjoy the fun of ordering at zero distance. Non-contact ordering gives each other an extra space of social distance. Want to save money for meal? Just use BBAR ! Stranity – AI trading platform Stranity team has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in program trading system development in Taiwan, including high-performance trading system, artificial intelligence, big data analysis and other technologies. Adhere to the original intention of creation, we make the program trading easier and more popular. Through the cooperation of our team, the trading process becomes simple and comfortable, making the analysis more accurate and the trading more professional. Zscorp Co., Ltd - Information technology integration and development Zscorp Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of information technology, including business management, knowledge management, cloud computing, smart applications and other information technology applications. The technology block uses a highly flexible basic platform and modular development methods to respond to various integrated applications, effectively reducing repeated development costs and improving res improving resource applicability. In addition, we also pursue the application of cutting-edge novel technologies to improve people’s quality of life and experience. Skymirror Technology Group specializes in cross-platform system development and cross-domain integration, with huge amounts of data and artificial intelligence technology, and continues to bring original products to the market. In the future, we will continue to improve on the application of smart technology, reflecting the shared and cocreated corporate culture and brand value.
Oursky Limited, Taiwan Branch
Oursky is founded in Hong Kong by a group of passionate developers who love tech and open source culture since 2008. We are based in Hong Kong and Taipei, while some team members are working remotely from different locations. Our mission is to create open source solutions to help enterprises in digital transformation and support developers in building secure and privacy-aware software. Our Professional Services team builds creative digital products with great user experience for clients that range from rockstar startups to multinationals like Standard Chartered Bank, A.S. Watson Group, and Nvidia.
We are dedicated to open source with our cool flagship products: Authgear, FormExtractor and Gesprek. Authgear is an open-source auth-as-a-service solution for web and mobile applications, while Gesprek is an open-source social commerce software for SMEs. We also have a machine learning team that provides machine learning and data warehouse services, and our FormExtractor is an API service that extracts structured information from mobile device-captured documents or forms.
We are a technology-oriented and developer-driven team who value craftsmanship and being socially progressive. Welcome to exchange open source ideas with us!
Learn more about us: https://oursky.com
Join our team: https://jobs.oursky.com
Gandi
Gandi.net was among the first domain name registrars approved by ICANN in Europe and offers over 750 top-level domains (such as .APP, .TW, .GAY, .IO, .MOE, .COM) At Gandi, we consider ourselves an ethical domain name registrar in an industry that has some ‘grey’ practices. We value our customers’ rights and privacy above all else, and defend these wherever and whenever possible.
RD.ONE
RD.ONE is an O2O community for R&D engineers.We believe the capability of research and development will be the great support for each individual and enterprise in the future.Training CTOs is our primary goal, we also encourage the entrepreneurial spirit and assist companies in digital transformation. We recognize the value of embracing the open source culture to promote the upgrade of R&D personnel and companies. Official website:www.rdone.org Facebook:www.facebook.com/RD.ONE.HQ
Archilife Research Foundation
Since 1987, the Archilife Research Foundation started long-term researches in architecture, sustainability, and go on to other areas of knowledge integration. Efforts including previously giving scholarships in aforementioned areas, and currently holding reading group meetings and communion events for knowledge keepers to better our understandings of the world. Starting from 2011, we also have been sponsoring various open source related events, holding meetups and game jams for local game developers’ community, and giving out scholarships to support indie game teams and encourage them to go to international game festivals.
Agricultural Technology Research Institute(ATRI)
Agricultural Technology Research Institute(ATRI) is a non-profit organization established by Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.(Taiwan). There are 5 units in ATRI, Animal technology laboratories, Plant technology laboratories, Aquatic technology laboratories, Business promoting center and Agricultural policy research center. In order to promote agri-technology business and new venture, these 5 units cooperate with each other to value up the technology from the research field to industrial companies.
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In 2020, Agritech Analytics project are presented by the business promoting center as novel service model of digital agriculture. Agritech Analytics provide industrial analysis by NLS and AI technology to insight the trend of agri-business. At the same time, the first “Chinese Agricultural Vocabulary database” is announced to open at github. By this project, the open data ecosystem in Taiwan will be formed and re-discover the value of agricultural data.
National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC)
National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), founded in 1991, is Taiwan’s only national-level supercomputing center. The NCHC plays a leading role in cloud technology that possesses a large computing, storage, networking and platform integration, providing the domestic users with the Could Integration Service of High Performance Computing (HPC), high quality networking, high efficiency storage, big data analysis and scientific engineering simulation.
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As stated above, the service include Data Aggregation and Service Platform( https://scidm.nchc.org.tw/). Then it could integrates data aggregation, management, and display functions in the development of data processing framework that utilizes high-performance computing, and provides an integrated data matching and information value-added platform to data providers and users through diverse data processing tools, such as automated data collection, de-identification tools, and open API. From the perspective of data researchers, it provides a faster, more accurate, and more intuitive way for showing the value of data.
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Scientific Breakthrough
Provides one-stop data processing.
Desensitizes data.
Provides big data matching.
Provides open data automation.
Provides big data terminal storage.
Lowers the threshold for big data analysis.
Industry Applications
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Provides a dataset management platform that offers real-time viewing and analysis functions, which increases the chances for open data to be applied. Cross-industry heterogeneous data value adding and matchmaking are carried out for industries to develop value-added services and feasible business models.
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contact︰datamarket@narlabs.org.tw (Datamarket team)
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TWNIC
The TWNIC operates ccTLD, IP allocation, DNS Security, and International Affairs under the supervision of the NCC and the organizational structure of TWNIC’s Board of Directors holds the decision-making power over the Center’s core policies. Also, there are four Committees responsible for drafting policy and providing information and recommendations; and five departments implement and carry out the Center’s missions.
RingCentral, Inc.
RingCentral, Inc.(纽交所代码:RNG)是全球领先的云商务通信——消息、视频、电话 (MVP)、客户沟通和联络中心解决方案提供商。相比于传统的本地PBX和视频会议系统,RingCentral以更灵活、更成本节约的方式,使现代移动和分布式工作人员可随时随地、通过任何设备和任何模式进行沟通、协作和连接。RingCentral的开放式平台与领先的第三方商业应用相集成,支持客户轻松定制业务工作流。RingCentral总部位于加利福尼亚州贝尔蒙特,在全球各地都设有分公司。
目前,RingCentral已为全球350,000家企业提供服务,客户遍布世界各地。市场占有率连续4年稳居北美第一,并连续五年位于Gartner UCaaS行业魔力象限的领导者象限。
Microsoft
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This year, I’ve had the opportunity to meet people around the world who are harnessing the power of technology to make a difference. These are just a few of the stories that have resonated with me this year. In 2016, I look forward to continuing to learn and see firsthand how digital technology is empowering people to make things and make things happen.
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Open Culture Foundation
The Open Culture Foundation (OCF), is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, founded in 2014 by several members of Taiwan’s open source community. Our main goal is to support local communities advocate the use of open technologies in broader sectors, including open source software, open hardware, and open data. We help government, enterprises, and NGOs better understand the benefits of adopting open source,and promote the importance of open data to the public sphere. We believe that a culture of open collaboration is the foundation for an innovative society, and the engine of a participatory democracy.
Taiwan Tech ECE
Our university is recognized as an application-oriented research-type international university. Comply with this axis of the university, the development goal of our department is set as the education of talent high tech personnel and the supplying of delicate application technology. With this, our department will play a role of connecting the basic technology and industrial application. To follow the technology policy of our government and the internationalized trend of education, the tradition of “emphasizing on practical application” in our department will be continued. With “combination of theory and application” and “balance on IQ and EQ”, electronic specialists with “international view and creation capability” will be trained in our department. These engineers will have the ability to design, manufacture, maintain and test the systems and elements in the fields of electronics, information communication and photo-electronics. With the “professional topics for undergraduate students”, “cooperation projects from the industry” and “the enforcement of the manufacturing ability of students”, our professors will help the industry to develop their required technologies. Cooperation with the neighboring educational and researching institutions, we will boom the energy of our research ability, develop our specialism and lift the global competition ability for the industry of our country.
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Mozilla
Mozilla is a pioneer and advocate for the Open Web for more than 20 years. We create and promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers, tablets and mobile devices.
ZUSO
ZUSO Generation, a company which gathers several Cyber Security enthusiasts. They specialize in Cyber Attacks techniques, Cyber Threats analysis, and commit to promote Cyber Security service. “THE BEST DEFENSE IS OFFENSE.” - To provide customized service, they use the newest and most complete techniques, focus on diverse risks, and have comprehensive perspectives. ZUSO Generation that is always on the same page with you and turns over a new leaf of “happily-ever-after” for you! If you need further solutions, please refer to their website on http://zuso.ai
meet.jobs
Meet.jobs is a social job platform focusing on international (and professional) talents and career opportunities.
The mission of Meet.jobs is to help everyone to maximize one’s own value in the world!
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LPI
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 600,000 exams delivered, it’s the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in 9 languages, and has hundreds of training partners.
iCHEF
We build the best restaurant POS in the world, and keep making it better.
Believing technology should help but handicap entrepreneurship, iCHEF works with thousands of restaurants’ owners to design and deliver POS technology and service that helps every restaurant to prevail in their own way.
Turning enterprise level technologies into affordable and understandable for small restaurants, iCHEF is making opening restaurant a better business.
HackMD
HackMD lets you create realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms. It could be used to organize your thoughts, discuss with your teammates, and preview the result in realtime. You write in markdown and we make slides, charts, and math expressions for you!
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