Overview of research center for information technology innovation in Taiwan Academia Sinica

Abstract

Founded in February 2007, the aim of the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) at Academia Sinica is to integrate research and development efforts in information technologies by various organizations in Academia Sinica, and also to facilitate and leverage IT-related multidisciplinary research. As a integral part of CITI, Taiwan Information Security Center (TWISC) to conduct researches on security with funding support from Ministry of Science and Technology. TWISC serves as a platform for security experts from universities, research institutes and private sector to share information and to explore opportunities to collaborate. Its aim is to boost research and development activities and promote public awareness regarding information security. Its research topics cover data/ software/ hardware/ network security and security management. TWISC has become the hub of security research in Taiwan and have been making significant impact through publishing and creating of toolkits. Recently privacy also becomes one of the main focuses of TWISC. The research team at CITI, Academia has been working on a viable way to assess the disclosure risk of synthetic dataset. Preliminary research result will be presented in this paper.