Taipei

🇹🇼 Taiwan
🌍 East Asia
🏢 Dense
🏆  IMD Rank #23

🔗 Website

About

Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a dynamic metropolis known for its high-tech industries, vibrant culture, and efficient public services. As a global leader in electronics and innovation, the city supports startups and smart city experimentation. Taipei emphasizes sustainable transport, digital governance, and climate resilience, blending modern skyscrapers with rich historical and cultural heritage.

Additional Information

Taipei City (population 2.6 million, metropolitan area 7 million) is Taiwan’s capital and technology hub. It operates one of Asia’s most active smart city co-creation ecosystems through the Taipei Smart City Project Management Office (PMO), which connects start-ups, corporations, and international partners for urban pilot projects. Taipei is also a regional leader in open government data and digital public services.

City Snapshot

Population

2494813

Area

272 km2

Density

9172/km2

Altitude

10 m

Weather

Temperatures (°C)

Rainfall (mm)

Strategic Vision and Achivements

Taipei has pursued a ‘Smart City 2.0’ strategy since 2019, focusing on open data, digital infrastructure, AI governance, and public-private co-creation. Key achievements include a city-wide LoRa IoT network, the Taipei Smart City PMO co-creation model attracting over 600 pilots, a unified Taipei Pass mobility application, and consecutive top rankings at the Smart City Expo World Congress awards (Barcelona, 2019–2023).

Challenges

Challenges are defined by cities to clearly express the urban issues they are facing. They describe specific needs and contexts, helping innovators, companies, and organizations understand the problem and propose relevant, tailored solutions.
Taipei has not published any challenges yet.

Experimental Capacity

Pilots

Pilots are real-life implementations of selected solutions in cities. They allow stakeholders to test ideas in real conditions, measure their impact, learn from the results, and determine whether the solution can be improved, replicated, or scaled to other contexts.
No pilots have been launched yet for Taipei.
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