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Stakeholder Survey 2021

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Stakeholder Survey 2021

The survey finds the stakeholders fairly satisfied with the performance of TWNIC and TWCERT/CC in the past year. As the services have been preemptively prepared, the regular service provision and business-related communications with stakeholders didn't suffer from any COVID-19 impact.

Organizational Performance Summary

I.

The services have been preemptively prepared and the interactions haven't been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak

Stakeholders fairly satisfied with the performance of TWNIC and TWCERT/CC in the past year. As the services have been preemptively prepared, the regular service provision and business-related communications with stakeholders didn't suffer from any COVID-19 impact. There were no problems interacting with domestic or foreign stakeholders. With the active leadership style, TWNIC and TWCERT/CC are able to nurture their strength for technology interactions, improve the network stability and reinforce the security foundation.

II.

With clear organizational positioning, the expectation is to proactively increase brand value and service capacities

TWNIC and TWCERT/CC have a clear organizational positioning and solid foundation in service, coupled with the unique and favorable role as the bridge between the public and private sectors. With the advantages of the basic operation of the internet and the advantages of domestic and foreign information and technology exchanges, it assists in the development of domestic internet and promotes the connection of international organizations. Stakeholders from each category expect TWNIC and TWCERT/CC to proactively push forward each of their services in the next phase.

Satisfaction by Stakeholders

Interactions

Close and streamlined online communications with minor COVID-19 impact

Service

The system's operational process is to be optimized, and the status inquiry platform is to be built. Continue to hold events to maintain interactions among entities in the industry, and to improve the result of online tech training.

Market

Push forward domain name education with stronger marketing strategies and create brand value

Strategy

Review social media strategies, determine target audience and segmentation. Have an adaptive business model and follow the trends, flexibly adjust the domain name policy.

Source: Online Survey (2021)

Service Quality

Technical Support

Trust to TWNIC

Value of TWNIC Service

Source: Online Survey (2021)

Service Quality

Technical Support

Trust to TWNIC

Value of TWNIC Service

Source: Online Survey (2021)

Service Quality

Technical Support

Trust to TWCERT/CC

Value of TWCERT/CC Service

Source: Online Survey (2021)

Interactions

The interviewees have acknowledged the events and the info-sharing activities. They expect more efficient notification by making good use of a variety of platforms.

Service

Add incident status inquiry or notification, increase effectiveness of cross-country incident reporting. Improve online tech training results and continue to put efforts in segmented security education.

Strategy

Take industry requirements/gaps into consideration and deploy services to assist.

Source: Online Survey (2021)

Future Opportunities

Optimizing services & interactions

The survey shows that both organizations haven't been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Stakeholders have rated the interactions/user experience/support as excellent. Both organizations have also laid a solid foundation for online services and activities.

Proactively enhancing the brand image

The goal of the next phase is to continuously increase brand awareness, build brand value and create synergistic effect of both organizations. Specific goals to work on include increasing the visibility of ".tw/.台灣", promoting domain name awareness/education, advocating the necessity and increasing the incentive for industries to adopt IPv6, strengthening IP security of industries, making continuous efforts in security incident reporting/handling, info-sharing and security literacy education, persistently increasing brand awareness and actively pushing forward/promoting relevant services.

Scaling up connections/ communities

The stakeholders encourage TWNIC and TWCERT/CC to foster active local communities and cultivate domestic/overseas community connections by reaching out to wider online communities in the core of industries or educational institutions, to initiate cross-field collaboration and establish ties among organizations of the same nature, to create brand synergy via new media forms, so that online communities from different industries can work together to strengthen Taiwan's cyber defense.

Nurturing the strength of technical collaboration

Stakeholders from various fields have high expectations for TWNIC and TWCERT/CC to fulfill their requirement gaps with solid technical foundation and rich experiences in providing support. The expected achievements include assisting the industries in understanding the trends, domain/IP market training, domestic/overseas cyber defense know-how sharing etc. A certain international stakeholder also thinks TWNIC and TWCERT/CC can help other countries set up CERT and further expand the international communities by exporting the technologies, demonstrating the impact for opportunities to gain more discursive power.

Future Opportunities

Optimizing services & interactions

The survey shows that both organizations haven't been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Stakeholders have rated the interactions/user experience/support as excellent. Both organizations have also laid a solid foundation for online services and activities.

Proactively enhancing the brand image

The goal of the next phase is to continuously increase brand awareness, build brand value and create synergistic effect of both organizations. Specific goals to work on include increasing the visibility of ".tw/.台灣", promoting domain name awareness/education, advocating the necessity and increasing the incentive for industries to adopt IPv6, strengthening IP security of industries, making continuous efforts in security incident reporting/handling, info-sharing and security literacy education, persistently increasing brand awareness and actively pushing forward/promoting relevant services.

Scaling up connections/communities

The stakeholders encourage TWNIC and TWCERT/CC to foster active local communities and cultivate domestic/overseas community connections by reaching out to wider online communities in the core of industries or educational institutions, to initiate cross-field collaboration and establish ties among organizations of the same nature, to create brand synergy via new media forms, so that online communities from different industries can work together to strengthen Taiwan's cyber defense.

Nurturing the strength of technical collaboration

Stakeholders from various fields have high expectations for TWNIC and TWCERT/CC to fulfill their requirement gaps with solid technical foundation and rich experiences in providing support. The expected achievements include assisting the industries in understanding the trends, domain/IP market training, domestic/overseas cyber defense know-how sharing etc. A certain international stakeholder also thinks TWNIC and TWCERT/CC can help other countries set up CERT and further expand the international communities by exporting the technologies, demonstrating the impact for opportunities to gain more discursive power.

Recommendations

The services have been preemptively prepared to avoid COVID impact and the optimized system has served as a channel for smooth service provision and interactions.

  • Interactions with stakeholders are safe from COVID impact. This can be attributed to the preemptively-prepared and well-structured online services so business interactions/communications went smoothly.
  • Going forward, it's necessary to consider how shifting physical events to online ones can be designed and how to achieve the expected result. Besides, it's also important to strive for constant improvement for maintaining different online channels for interaction and present more diverse topics in multiple forms.
  • We suggest upgrading/optimizing the operation system and paying attention to system stability/maintenance. In addition, it's necessary to build a process status inquiry platform to enhance the efficiency. It's also necessary to add incident status inquiry function or notifications, so that the incident reporter can learn about the incident status and become more willing to report incidents.

Proactively increase brand awareness and value, make effective use of the new media to scale up online community

  • The goal of the next phase is to have more excellent/vibrant advancement on top of existing services - specifically towards increasing the visibility of ".tw/.台灣", promoting domain name awareness education, invigorating the industries, driving IPv6 implementation, strengthening IP security, making continuous efforts in security incident reporting/handling, info-sharing and security literacy education, persistently increasing brand awareness and actively pushing forward/promoting relevant services.
  • Make good use of new media forms to interact with the public, such as using the booming social media to identify proper audience for advocacy and creating connections with more audience with more diverse media forms and multiple channels.

Nurture local communities and connect with international organizations, encourage and establish the foundation of multi-party internet governance

  • Continue to foster active local communities and domestic/overseas community connections, assist in resource coordination in Taiwan, reach out to new online communities in the core of industries or schools, enhance people's security literacy and digital skills, initiate cross-field collaboration for synergistic effects, establish ties with organizations of the same nature, initiate industry interactions, set up new security tech standards, and strengthen Taiwan's cyber defense.
  • By leveraging TWNIC's semi-official role and its advantage of operating TWCERT/CC, the suggestion is to assist/give advice to other countries in setting up CERT so as to scale up the international community by exporting the technologies, demonstrate Taiwan's tech capacities to impress and build trust with international partners.

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