Minister Without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳) said that ministry of digital affairs officials would be able to sign documents online, allowing them to work outside of their offices using smartphones or tablets.
The ministry of digital affairs is to be inaugurated on Aug. 27 and Tang is to serve as its first minister.
Tang has said she hopes to gradually change the working environment in the public sector.
She said in an interview on Tuesday last week that hackers often target leaked passwords, so users might have to repeatedly reset their passwords or set more complicated ones, which is inconvenient.
Some people compile their
Cyberattacks that temporarily paralyzed government Web sites and manipulated display screens at convenience stores and a train station coincided with the arrival of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taipei on Tuesday, with Chinese hackers likely to blame.
On Tuesday, the Presidential Office’s Web site was taken offline for about 20 minutes following a distributed denial of service attack, in which multiple computers are focused on a single target in an attempt to take it offline.
The government’s official English-language portal and Web sites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
Minister Without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳) is preparing for the establishment of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, which is to be launched as early as next month, her office said yesterday.
The preparations for the new ministry, which are overseen by Tang, have been smooth, her office said, but added that more time is needed for job handovers and staff deployment.
The opening date would be decided by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), it added.
Tang is regarded as the most likely candidate for the post of Minister of Digital Affairs. The position is to be appointed by the Executive Yuan.
The new ministry would
People who contract COVID-19 can have electronic home isolation notices retroactively reissued using a new feature on the Digital COVID-19 Certificate Web site, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Home isolation notices, which provide evidence that a person has been ordered to isolate at home, are required in some instances to secure sick pay or time off work.
Many confirmed cases had been unable to claim such benefits upon diagnosis due to a lag in the issuance of electronic isolation notices, the center said.
To remedy this, people diagnosed with COVID-19 from May 1 to Thursday who have not yet received