The Tainan City Government held the "2022 Tainan AI Smart City, Talent Co-creation Application Hackathon" at the C-Hub National Cheng Kung University Creative Base today (20th). The event provided a space for question setters and solution teams to discuss and exchange ideas. The event went through stages from June to August, including question selection, question review, and question solicitation. Currently, 30 teams have registered and participated in today's exchange activity to gain a deeper understanding of the question details.
Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che, attending the event, expressed his gratitude and encouragement to the experts from various sectors of the community who gathered to collaboratively devise solutions for Tainan's urban governance through the AI hackathon. He also hoped that the city government team would continue to gather wisdom from the community, upholding the hacker spirit of freedom, equality, and openness, and working together with community creativity to enhance the city's competitiveness. The mayor also noted that technology had been used to help with past dengue fever outbreaks and the 0206 earthquake, and that today's topics were all very meaningful. In particular, the Health Bureau's "AI Speaking Skills: Screening with Guarantee" program has the potential to boost vaccination rates among the elderly. This event facilitated the connection and co-creation of various innovative resources, gathering collective wisdom, and he believed it could spark diverse forms of cooperation and brilliant solutions.
The Tainan City Government, in collaboration with ASUS Cloud, Taiwan Smart Cloud Services (Taiwan Smart Cloud), and the Digital Life Technology Research and Development Center of National Cheng Kung University, jointly organized the "2022 Tainan AI Smart City, Talent Collaboration Technology Application Hackathon." The event, themed "Smart Epidemic Prevention, Smart Tourism, and Smart Transportation," solicited suggestions from citizens and the city government team on municipal issues that could be improved through technology. It also invited startup teams to apply AI technology to solve these problems. Today's exchange activity provided a platform for face-to-face discussions among those who posed the questions, those who solved them, and representatives from ASUS, National Cheng Kung University, and the city government team. Following the event, a series of online seminars will be held, allowing participants to not only identify the core issues but also utilize national resources for practical verification, collectively creating change and advancing Tainan's smart city development.
Former Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan and current Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, Kuo Yao-huang, who is also the chief judge of this event, affirmed the cooperation between the Tainan City Government and ASUS Group. He was pleased to have the opportunity to make good use of the academic community to introduce AI-powered digital application courses into the hackathon, allowing public sector employees, citizens, and IT professionals to understand the diversity and feasibility of digital life technology applications. He believes that this is a great practical learning opportunity for young students, and that the continued cooperation between the city government and the technology industry will be conducive to the formation of a knowledge economy cluster, promote the upgrading of innovative service industries, and build Tainan City into a new hometown for creative people.
Tai Wei-Chun, Chairman of the Research, Development and Evaluation Committee, stated that after review, the event selected 10 topics for the competition, including: Smart Pedestrian Hotspot Map, AI-based Smart Traffic Management System Using Drone Aerial Imagery, Image-based Identification of Road Excavation Cases, AI-assisted Road Interference for Injustices, Scenic Spot Identification Based on Image Recognition of Main Road Signal Control System, Tainan City Tourism Guidance App, Visitor Group Analysis for Historical Sites, AI-based Patrol and Cleaning System, and AI-powered Screening with Warranty. Thirty teams applied to solve these problems, and the Tainan City Government has high expectations for the final results.
ASUS Cloud and Taisun General Manager Wu Han-chang stated that he was honored to co-organize the AI Smart City Hackathon with the Tainan City Government. We fully support the project by providing cloud services and AIHPC computing to help teams apply their solutions to problems. We are confident that through multi-party participation in AI smart city field experiments, we can accelerate the implementation of AI technology and applications, and work together with the public to build Tainan into an AI smart city.
