T3 Alliance, an alliance of three middle to southern Taiwan research intensive universities, will kickoff a “Public Policy Forum

 For Immediate Release
T3 Alliance, an alliance of three middle to
southern Taiwan research intensive
universities, will kickoff a "Public Policy
Forum"
Date: May 12, 2008
Venue: National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan. (April 2, 2008) - In recent years, with Asia Pacific's
significant intellectual and economic rapid growth, the study of "public
policy" has emerged as one of the important subjects in universities in
this region. For example, one such intense interests was manifested by Mr.
Li Ka-Shing, one of Asia's most renowned philantropists, who donated
$100 million Singapore dollars ($ ~66 million US) for National
University of Singapore's Lee Kuan-Yew School of Public Policy.
Very recently, learning from lesson of "power of 3," such as Duke
University, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State
University in North Carolina created the Research Triangle Park to
become one of the most robust IT and Bio-economies in the world, three
universities in central and south Taiwan, National Chung-Hsing
University (NCHU), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and
National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), initiated a T3 alliance,
whose aim is to jointly be the engine for economic and intellectual
developments for this part of Taiwan.
Besides developing the economic and intellectual landscapes, which will
be long range, T3 also recognizes and ready to immediately assumes its
social responsibilities. One such responsibility is to create the awareness
across the region the importance of "public policies."
There are two reasons for this awareness.