Case background:The pursuit of health through sports and creating good quality of life have become the trend of modern life. From a national perspective, it is also necessary to encourage the population to take up sports and establish healthy lifestyles. This not only creates a positive and healthy society, but also acts as a preventive policy to reduce the costs associated with medical care and so on.
The Sports Administration of the Ministry of Education is responsible for promoting sport for all. It must use modern smart technology to build a long-lasting online Sports Health Information Cloud system to allow Taiwan to offer high-quality sports information.
Project objectives: Build the "Sports Cloud — A Sports Information System for All" by combining the promotion of national fitness with a smart technology program from the Ministry of Education's Sports Administration and the Education Cloud from the Ministry of Education's Department of Information and Technology Education.
Integrate information systems related to types originally dispersed in different units across Taiwan. Promote the integration of the existing systems and simultaneously plan future system functions in a unified manner, so as to avoid wasting resources.
Integrate the sports and health data of relevant citizens into a single platform and apply different aspects of big data analysis and application according to the data, which can be used by policy-making units in order to maximize the benefits of the policy.
Overall benefits achieved:Moving related systems to the cloud for centralized, unified management and to save resources and expenses:
Building "22 counties and cities' Sports Map websites" and "Strengthening i Sports Information Platform System (Cloud-based)" to centralize the data of each county and city in the sports cloud for unified management. Integrating a sports-related license database and building a scalable system architecture to reduce system development costs.
People conduct online searches and subscription using filters such as sports categories, counties and cities. Updates to time and location of the activities can be synchronized in real-time. Preparing a variety of tables and spreadsheets through the system to save administrative resources and reduce paper consumption. Achieving the goals of the Green Energy Service.
Consolidating systems to improve administrative efficiency:
Reducing the amount of time spent reviewing and approving the sports programs of the Sports Administration by approximately 40% (2 months).
Automatically providing a matching mechanism for a variety of sports licenses to enhance the administrative effectiveness of each service unit.
The examination authority (Audit Office) can check online in real-time, with no need to flip through cabinets to find paper-based resources.
Applying big data analytics to improve the accuracy of policymaking and information provision:
Providing the chief sports officer and the public with quick access to relevant statistics and reports so as to improve transparency and the accuracy rate of information.
Providing a data reference for related policies from the Sports Administration through value-added applications and research of data (e.g. the 2015 study on the current status of functional fitness of the elderly in Taiwan and the 2014–2015 statistical analysis of national fitness tests).
Creating a culture of sport and improving the effectiveness of sports promotion:
Page views on the Sports Information Platform increase by 1.8 times (4.5 million person-time)
National Fitness Tests increase by 2 times (35,000 person-time)
Applications of Sport in Taiwan Program increase by 1.3 times
Candidates for the Instructor's Certificate increase by 9 times
