TranSmart Card and Human Right
Written
by Li-Chang Kuo
The
invention of TranSmart Card was to deliver
wisdom, spread kindness for actuating the business opportunities of
trillion dollars to create many new jobs, and approaching the mission goal of Rich Taiwan; so that ‘TranSmart Card’
is a very important public goods in line with Article 15 of the Constitution
said : “The Rights to Work, to Property and
to Life of the people shall be guaranteed." When a person loses the
right to work, the other two rights also at stake or precarious. Therefore,
talking about ‘TranSmart Card’ is likely talking about the level of Human Right.
Back
to the background of inventing the ‘TranSmart Card’, I must mention that
Taiwan experienced the recession in the period of 1982-1985, every sectors were
pondering the way of upgrading the industries. It’s very difficult to endure
until receiving the orders of Consumer Electronics in 1986, NT dollar was
required to appreciated rapidly by the mighty power from US$1:NT$40 to US$1:25，Taiwan's national income was exploded on the surface,
the manufacturing cost increased substantially, many foreign companies pulled
out of Taiwan, they said: “Taiwan
‘TES’
has two purposes: one is ‘Technologicalization of Traditional Industries’,
another is ‘Intellectualization
of Technological Industries’; the former can be attained through
updating the existed stores or shops to the electronic-stores (eStores)—this
has gained the bill of ‘E-Commerce’ at APEC 1998, the later can be through
application of the ‘TranSmart Card’ as a key to open the door of entire
commercial mechanism to penetrate the global markets, and to implement the
mission goal of ‘Rich Taiwan’.
Recently,
Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-Je reviewed nearly a year about his administrative
errors and said that “I’m harmed by a woman-- Yui Hatano!” The reason is that Taipei
When
we won the APEC Blueprint for Action on
Electronic Commerce at APEC 1998, thereafter, we prepared the TranSmart Card & TRD to propose at
Taipei City Hall on the 24th day of May in 1999, those officials led
by the Deputy Mayor Pai Hsiu-Hsiung looked at the demo in kind curiously, they
saw the Lanyu Canoe printed on the
card, questioned that “How to issue this TranSmart Card?” I answered: “To
assemble the existed manpower to be a group for operation, no need to add any
extra-expenses…” TranSmart Card can be
used for Taipei MRT because it already completed, and then expanding to the
fields of transaction and identification, the job creation will be occurred naturally.
As to the issuance that can combine with those existing post offices, gas stations and Chain Stores, the TranSmart Card can be processed by the Central Bank and deemed as ‘National Currency’ to fill the treasury and to facilitate the implementation of government affairs. The most importance is upgrading the economy of
