Taiwan-led campaign invites proposals for green, social initiatives

Khiang says the Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring project has the support of 29 companies.

TAIWAN Excellence — which honours Taiwan’s most innovative and value-added products — launched a campaign to expand its commitment towards environmental and social initiatives.

“Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” hopes to gather proposals from a global audience with the aim to improve environmental protection and address social concerns through the use of Taiwan Excellence products and services.

Present at the virtual launch were Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade director-general Cynthia Khiang, Indonesian IT expert Onno W. Purbo and SM Foundation trustee Ramon Gil Macapagal who gave a special address.

“This initiative of promoting Taiwan Excellence through a digitally themed philanthropic event is the first of its kind.

“We are proud to announce that this campaign is strongly supported by 29 Taiwan Excellence companies,” said Khiang, who is optimistic that the project with a target of 1,000 proposals will be well-received.

Both Macapagal and Onno expressed their support towards the initiative.

“I am pleased that this campaign is being carried out as it can act as a platform to pursue and contribute positive actions to address a wide range of sustainability issues,” said Macapagal.

Onno highighted that countries involved in the programme could conduct knowledge-sharing activities.

Organised by the Bureau of Foreign Trade MOEA under Taiwan’s Economic Affairs Ministry, the campaign will start on Sept 1 and the deadline for submission of proposals is Oct 31.

Each submission will be reviewed by a jury of professionals and scholars.

The top three proposals will each receive USD10,000 (RM42,375) and funds not exceeding USD150,000 (RM635,625) to execute their proposals.

The top three proposals will be selected based on their impact on society, environmental sustainability, innovation, feasibility and reasonableness of their suggested budget as well as expression of Taiwan Excellence.

Kuala Lumpur Taiwan Trade Centre encouraged Malaysians to participate and shared how Malaysians had succeeded in similar events in Taiwan, such as the Kingston x CSD APAC Mask Design Competition and the Meet Taiwan–Asia Super Team competition.

Details on the campaign can be found at https://share-care.taiwanexcellence.org and www.facebook.com/TaiwanExcellence.my.