{"id":19256,"date":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/03\/ndc-invigorates-ecosystem-for-taiwanese-edtech-startups-creates-engine-for-future-growth\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","slug":"ndc-invigorates-ecosystem-for-taiwanese-edtech-startups-creates-engine-for-future-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/03\/ndc-invigorates-ecosystem-for-taiwanese-edtech-startups-creates-engine-for-future-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Invigorates Ecosystem for Taiwanese EdTech Startups, Creates Engine for Future Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 3 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0In 2021, investment in education around the world&#13;<br \/>\ndoubled. According to the &#8220;2021 Taiwan Startup Ecosystem Report&#8221; published by&#13;<br \/>\nglobal accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in November, the number one&#13;<br \/>\nkeyword for enterprise startups is education technology, or &#8220;edtech&#8221;. More than&#13;<br \/>\n40% of startups surveyed responded that they were solely focused on edtech. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/250x0\/203219\/photo-tw-1.JPG#image-203219\" width=\"250\"\/>\u00a0\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/250x0\/203226\/photo-tw-2.JPG#image-203226\" width=\"250\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\"\/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">2021 International&#13;<br \/>\nConference on Education Innovation<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the era of artificial intelligence, 5G communications,&#13;<br \/>\nand blockchains, edtech has become the hot new trend that will revolutionize&#13;<br \/>\neducation; because creating a new education system is key to nurturing&#13;<br \/>\ntomorrow&#8217;s talented minds. Ever since it spearheaded the Asia Silicon Valley&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment Plan (ASVDP) and created the national startup brand &#8220;Startup Island&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwan&#8221; in 2016, the National Development Council (NDC) has set its eye on&#13;<br \/>\ninvigorating Taiwan&#8217;s startup ecosystem. Its contributions to the edtech&#13;<br \/>\nstartup scene in Taiwan include the sponsorship of the plan to &#8220;Accelerate&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwan&#8217;s Education Startups on the World Stage&#8221; for two consecutive years,&#13;<br \/>\nheaded by Taiwan&#8217;s foremost parenting and education brand CommonWealth&#13;<br \/>\nEducation Media and Publishing, and investment in Taiwan&#8217;s online learning&#13;<br \/>\nstartups PaGamO and Hahow. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plan to &#8220;Accelerate Taiwan&#8217;s Education Startups on&#13;<br \/>\nthe World Stage&#8221; involves the selection of twenty promising Taiwanese edtech&#13;<br \/>\nstartups and providing them with the critical resources they need to succeed,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as investment in CommonWealth&#13;<br \/>\nEducation Media and Publishing&#8217;s annual&#13;<br \/>\nbranding extravaganza, the &#8220;International Conference on Education Innovation&#8221;,&#13;<br \/>\nfor more than ten years. This year&#8217;s &#8220;International Conference on Education&#13;<br \/>\nInnovation&#8221; revolves around the theme of &#8220;Sustainability X Education&#8221;. Over&#13;<br \/>\n125,000 participants attended the hybrid online and offline forum. Nearly fifty&#13;<br \/>\nspeakers, representing the business and education sectors, were invited from the&#13;<br \/>\nUnited States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Taiwan. Notable guests included&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwan&#8217;s former vice president Chen Chien-jen; Rob Riordan, co-founder of&#13;<br \/>\nSilicon Valley&#8217;s incredibly popular High Tech High; and Abner Chao, Founder and&#13;<br \/>\nCEO of AmaizingTalker, a Taiwanese online learning startup that boasts an&#13;<br \/>\nannual revenue of one billion Taiwan dollars and continues to double its value&#13;<br \/>\nevery year. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Development Council will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to be the driving force behind Taiwan&#8217;s edtech startups. It will keep&#13;<br \/>\nworking with private platforms to create digital content and services, as well&#13;<br \/>\nas propel digital education in middle schools, build smart classrooms, and&#13;<br \/>\nprovide tablet computers for schoolchildren in remote areas. It will also improve&#13;<br \/>\n5G communications integration through smart education, train talent in the&#13;<br \/>\ndigital era, and nurture bilingual skills. Ultimately, its aim is to introduce&#13;<br \/>\na greater number of rapidly growing Taiwanese startups to the world stage, so&#13;<br \/>\nthe international community can witness and benefit from Taiwan&#8217;s creative&#13;<br \/>\nenergy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-12-03\/108733\/ndc-invigorates-ecosystem-for-taiwanese-edtech-startups-creates-engine-for-future-growth\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 3 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0In 2021, investment in education around the world&#13; doubled. According to the &#8220;2021 Taiwan Startup Ecosystem Report&#8221; published by&#13; global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in November, the number one&#13; keyword for enterprise startups is education technology, or &#8220;edtech&#8221;. 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