Taiwan’s Third Sector for the Development of
Information Society
Written by Li-Chang Kuo
After three decades in
making much efforts as the Third Sector, the Information Society of 21st
century really came to the earth; therefore, I put a paper on the http://handle.ncl.edu.tw/11296/ndltd/29487848206749467142
Abstract:
The civilization of mankind has been evolved through
the Natural, Agriculture and Industrial Societies, and into the Information
Society. Taiwan’s
Third Sector has been emphasizing on advocating the tools of Information
Society at APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) –where the only
international platform that we’re able to shovel something for leading the development
of information economy and attaining our mission goal. Various derivative
resources are flowing continuously to the Asia-Pacific region and radiating to
the worldwide. A lot of opportunities rising in new era; however, the public
sector has become inability and many private sector status are also existed in Taiwan. The
consequence is that nothing can be captured but the disintegration of the
middle class and enlarging the wealth gap, and growing pressure in people's
lives. In short, Taiwan
deeply trapped in the social dilemma after 2000 because of "the motivation
of anti-morality"—as said by Arthur Schopenhauer (a German philosopher).
Therefore, this paper started studying why Taiwan
could success during 1965-2000 by the method of qualitative research and
reviewing the context of development of Taiwan
history, to realize that the people of Taiwan endured long torment during
the “Colonialism” and “Authoritarianism” and finally gained the acclaim of “Economic
Miracle” in the world. It’s thus discovered that there’re three public sector
characters—K. T. Li, Chiang Ching-Kuo
and Lee Teng-Hui significantly
affected the development of the Information Society in Taiwan’s Third Sector through the literature
review. Moreover, through interview, it’s found out that the fourth stage of
human civilization—“Information Society” which was something to do with the
economic cogitation of “Corporate-Balance” of Chiang Ching-Kuo, and further to
create a paradigm of the Third Wave Democratization. Due to the limited space,
this paper has been positioned as a “Society Study” which blocked to research
the related critical issues of Taiwan’s
Third Sector with the Public and Private Sectors, and framed the scope on analyzing
the dimensions of impacting the range of social change and economic development.
In addition, this paper adopted the methods of description, evidence, interpretation
and induction to analyze the past successful experiences of Taiwan, and to do
the intersect-argumentation iteratively that the global megatrends; meanwhile,
also intended by the view of philosophy to enter from the Epistemology, and by the
logical deduction to reiterate the theory of improvement constantly, then supplemented
by the participation of “Ethics” to expect through the past for recognizing the
recent situation, and looking forward to the bright future of Taiwan.
Keywords:
Taiwan
Society Third Sector Information Society
Taiwan History
Social Dilemma APEC