Date: 10/ /2018
By: Youth Development Administration
Person in charge: Wan-chien Chao
Telephone: (02) 77365174
E-mail:akane@mail.yda.gov.tw
Contact person: Division Chief Jia-ting Huang
Telephone: (02) 77365172
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Youth Development Administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced the results of〔JH1〕this year’s "Good Policy Ideas for Youth". After a fierce competition, 6 out of 73 participating teams were selected as the winners. Their ideas helped to portrait Taiwanese youth's vision of Taiwan's future.
The competition aims to seek out creative and good ideas from young people, so the central government and local governments can have more insights about young people's concerns as they draft future policies. The topics cover 8 categories, including youth employment and entrepreneurship, housing, sustainable environment, aboriginal economy, public participation, transportation safety, labor rights and food and agricultural education.
One of the winning proposals, "Youth Can Live Long", was proposed by the Team of Fives. The team led by Ms. Yu-wun Wu consist of four students from National Pingtung University. The team was concerned with the issue that risky driving behaviors of young people often lead to traffic-related injuries or deaths. They reviewed the current license tests for scooter/motorcycle drivers as well as the content of road safety lessons. The team then carried out a survey to identify six main factors leading to traffic accidents involving scooters and discovered that scooter drivers did not have enough awareness for safe driving practices and risky behaviors that should be avoided. Thus, they proposed to change current license tests for scooter drivers by adding scenario-based questions, starting campaigns that interest young people, and adding MR devices in counties and cities with high number of traffic accidents and scoots to remind young people the importance of traffic safety and reduce traffic accidents.
Another winning proposal "Lin Coin Social Housing Integration Platform" was proposed by three youths led by Cheng-yu Yang. Their team "Buying House is Difficult" believed that to ensure housing justice, building social housing is not enough. Rather, to ensure housing justice, it is necessary to integrate resources, so the team established a modular and replicable mechanism to integrate resources at the Linkou demonstration site. The mechanism can be introduced to all social housing in New Taipei City to improve residents’ living quality, encourage residents to participate in public affairs, contribute to the society, encourage interaction among residents, and improve the social image of social housing. Their strategies aimed to match supply and demand of services, quantify the value of various services, activate the existing mechanism of "time bank" and introduce social currency, so residents can use social currency to obtain services, to pay part of housing rent and to get discount from shops in the neighborhood.
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