第28屆台灣精品獎頒獎典禮今登場 共240家企業獲獎
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▲(前排由左至右)外貿協會秘書長葉明水、台灣精品獎選拔召集人賴東明、經濟部次長林全能。（圖／貿協提供）
記者余弦妙／台北報導
由經濟部指導、國際貿易局及外貿協會共同主辦、有臺灣產業界奧斯卡獎之稱的「台灣精品獎」今（27）日在南港展覽館二館舉辦第28屆頒獎典禮，除揭曉台灣精品最高榮譽金銀質獎得獎名單，同時表揚台灣精品得獎企業，更首度盛大展出418件得獎產品，並辦理全球通路商暨品牌代理商洽談會，即時服務得獎企業。
貿協指出，從今年「解決方案」產品獲獎比例高達22%，體現結合AIoT（人工智慧物聯網）應用儼然已成產業趨勢，並已成功運用於醫療及機械等領域。本屆頒獎典禮由中華民國副總統陳建仁、經濟部次長林全能、國際貿易局副局長李冠志及外貿協會董事長黃志芳親臨現場為得獎企業祝賀，更有多位駐華使節亦前來參與這場臺灣產業界的盛會。
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陳建仁表示，臺灣持續在「創新能力」上與德國、美國、瑞士同列為全球四大創新國，象徵我國創新實力已在國際舞臺上占有一席之地。這也是在座企業共同努力的成果。
而黃志芳董事長則提到，在科技變化快速的時代，期許每家公司都可以是科技公司，將產品注入數位元素，進行產業升級。而台灣精品推廣方式多元，期待獲獎企業加入台灣精品的行列，一同將臺灣創新科技推廣到全球，讓全球都感受到來自臺灣的技術所帶來優質及便利生活，如同台灣精品slogan：「創新臺灣、精彩世界」。
▼外貿協會董事長黃志芳。（圖／記者余弦妙攝）
今年共有240家企業的418件產品獲得台灣精品獎，其中僅有不到3%的產品得以入圍角逐金銀質獎，30件金銀質獎得獎產品代表臺灣產業創新價值的縮影，涵蓋了資通訊、醫療器材、智慧機械、健身器材與交通運輸等。
貿協轉述，得獎常勝軍、同時也是臺灣精密零組件龍頭上銀科技表示：「得獎猶如一盞明燈，引領研發同仁有堅持下去的動力，我們以能成為台灣精品中的精品感到十分驕傲」；首次獲獎的英霸聲學科技股份有限公司表示：「台灣精品獎標章，讓台灣的新創聲學品牌也能擁有一席之地」，可見台灣精品獎標章成為消費者心中的品質保證、選擇指標，相信日後台灣精品獎與其專屬之標章於國際上的影響力將與日俱增，透過台灣精品的多元產品，具體展現「創新臺灣，精彩世界」。
除了金銀質獎外，結合AIoT運用於醫療及機械等領域的產品表現相當亮眼，包括智慧眼鏡能將手術路徑直接呈現醫師眼前，醫師便能直覺化動刀，且能雲端運算及儲存手術影像，達成智慧醫療。
此外，為因應現代人忙碌生活，台灣精品企業洞察需求，推出能達成便利及質感生活的產品，如省去人工抄表的智慧水表、智能手沖咖啡機；在智慧零售方面，智能觸控互動魔鏡系統提升民眾購物體驗。而隨著民眾環保意識抬頭及政府對循環經濟的重視，綠色產品推陳出新，如可自然分解且兼顧使用安全的甘蔗吸管、可自動偵測亮度進行開關太陽能地磚燈等。
貿協說，面對全球化的競爭壓力及更自由、透明化的市場與快速變動的網路貿易，將以提升國際行銷能力角度切入，透過國際講師分享新知，讓臺灣產業可以了解更多國際行銷以及產品設計的趨勢，並隨時提供最即時、有效的服務。
Bravo Ideas Digital Co., Ltd. Awarded at the Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards 2021 Regional Edition for Inspiration Brand Category
SINGAPORE, Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Enterprise Asia, the organiser of the prestigious fifteenth Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards (APEA) 2021 Regional Edition is pleased to recognise 59 exceptional award recipients who have exemplified excellence and perseverance in this unprecedented period. The APEA awardees have proven resiliency and accelerated tremendously to overcome the unprecedented economic conditions wrought by the global pandemic.
Bravo Ideas Digital Co., Ltd. was honoured for Inspirational Brand Award at the Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards 2021 Regional Edition
The APEA, an initiative by Enterprise Asia, the region’s leading NGO, is the largest regional recognition and acknowledgement programme for trailblazers in the business community. APEA prides itself as a testament to the commitment, aspiration, and true entrepreneurship. With over 800 nominations received each year, and about seven percent were commended to the most deserving for recognition. This year, an impressive number of 130 finalists from 15 countries were up for consideration in the final round of judging and only 59 were crowned as award recipients.
Bravo Ideas Digital Co., Ltd.’s Inspiring Brand Story
Founded in 2012, Bravo Ideas is an enterprise which strives to bring innovative ideas and interactive video techniques to the world. The company does not want to copy and localise foreign technology, preferring instead to do something other countries do not have. The interactive video technology Bravo Ideas invented is highly praised by Google and its customers include world-class enterprises such as FOX Movie (fox 21), Dentus X, ZenithMedia, PILI Puppet Show and BAZAAR. Even the most well-known award in Asia “Golden Bell Award” has used their technology in the event. The movie “Allien” made by Zenith, Fox and Bravo Ideas brought the interactive video technology to an unprecedented stage.
The most noticeable technology developed by Bravo Ideas is “See now, Buy now”. With the rapid development of eCommerce and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Live-streaming eCommerce became the most popular business model in Asia. Alibaba once said that 2019 was the year of Live-streaming eCommerce, and video streaming will become the basic equipment for all eCommerce in the future and bring the revenue up to RMB hundred billion dollars. “See now, Buy now” and Live-streaming eCommerce always appear at the same time. The term of “See now, Buy now” was created by Bravo Ideas in 2013 and was first used in China in 2015 and became a popular slogan everywhere in 2016. With “See now, Buy now” technology, audiences can watch live and purchase products they are interested in immediately. The whole shopping procedure only takes 15 seconds from placing an order to making payment.
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Bravo Ideas started patenting “See now, Buy now” Live-streaming technology in 2012 and an “invention patent” was issued to Taiwan, Mainland China, United States, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia. To popularise the technology in Taiwan, Bravo Ideas established its own Live-streaming eCommerce platform, called Ishowlife (www.ishowlife.com) in 2018; and since then, Bravo Ideas has held more than 15,000 live sessions. Ishowlife is now the largest Live-streaming eCommerce platform in Taiwan. It’s also worth mentioning that Bravo Ideas is the only one in the world that can use the “See now, Buy now” patented technology on FB, Twitter, Line, Wechat and WhatsApp.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave Bravo Ideas a chance to popularise Live-streaming eCommerce. With people spending more time shopping online, the brick and mortar store owners have started to sell their products through live-streaming. Live-streaming is a faster and direct interactive way of sales than TV shopping. With the outbreak of COVID-19, many store owners or companies have approached Bravo Ideas for cooperation. Bravo Ideas assisted them in planning live-streaming programmes and gave them a chance to sell products in the Ishowlife platform.
Bravo Ideas has cultivated Live-streaming eCommerce in Taiwan and Mainland China for more than 8 years. Now, with the great advantage of 5G and cross-border internet, the Company aims to fully capture the Northeast and Southeast Asia markets. Bravo Ideas is currently working with local enterprises to build up Ishowlife Southeast Asia platforms through patent licensing and provide professional training to local influencers/KOL to speed up the development of Live-Streaming eCommerce in Southeast Asia. Bravo Ideas hopes to serve more than 300 million people in 2021 and aims to make Ishowlife the leading Live-streaming eCommerce brand in the world.
In addition, Bravo Ideas currently partners with more than 600 influencers / KOL and uses “See now, Buy now” technology while streaming lively in Ishowlife, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Through such cooperation, Bravo Ideas achieved US$36,000,000 profits last year and for 2021, Bravo Ideas plans to increase the number of influencers/KOL to 1000 and make everyone in Taiwan know the brands “Bravo Ideas” and “Ishowlife”.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Yang Chunju was born 20 years ago in Guangdong, China, and was abandoned at birth. A year later she was adopted by a couple from Pennsylvania, in the United States, and along with a new family, she got a new name, Mary Ruth Tomko, though most people call her Mei.
The young woman grew up in the small town of York — “the American countryside,” as she describes it. And in the schools she attended, there were no other Asians. In other words, no one else looked like her, and Mei recalls being very lonely throughout her childhood.
Nor did anyone show any real interest in Asian culture, and although her parents encouraged her to study her roots, they themselves didn’t really participate. Growing up in a white community bearing a white name, no one told her what it meant to be Asian American.
The United States has more adopted Chinese children than any other country in the world — more than 170,000 since 1992, when the Chinese Adoption Law went into effect, according to the organization International Adoption. Most of these children grow up in white communities and are raised by white families. As such, they see themselves subconsciously as white and often experience identity crises because they do not look like the people around them.
C.N. Le, a researcher on Asian Americans at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that when they are exposed to racism or experience racial discrimination, they often have two responses: flight or fight. “To run away is to give up their Asian identity and disassociate,” says Le. “The other reaction is to fight, to unite with others who have similar experiences.”
No one told her what it meant to be Asian American.
For a long time, Mei would purposely conceal the fact that she was adopted. She would avoid walking alongside her parents so that people would not think that they are related. She recalls too how her mom one remarked that all the boys in school were interested in her because she’s “very exotic.” For years, the phrase made her uncomfortable.
Later she told her mom that she had to “make herself white” to integrate with her family and community: She turned her brown eyes blue in Instagram photos and pretended to be interested in parties, games and relationships to have more things in common with white friends.
Mei wrote in her diary that she “never had an Asian-American role model,” even when it comes to learning how to dress. Only in adolescence, when she discovered the world of K-pop — modern Korean pop music — did she begin to realize that “Asians could also be beautiful.”
“I didn’t know why I was so addicted to K-pop, but now looking back, it answered my doubts and gave me confidence,” she says.
At university, Mei joined an Asian student community and got to know a group of peers who grew up in Asian immigrant families and were “of similar appearance.” In doing so, she fulfilled her dream of finally being part of a group that she could really identify with. From her new friends she began to learn different Asian traditions and religious cultures. Among other things, she discovered that for Asians, the concept of “family” is entirely built on blood kinship, while for her, as someone who was adopted, “family” was constructed around love and emotions.
More generally, she began to realize that her experiences were unique and valuable and to construct her triple-layered identity as an “interracial adoptee, Chinese American and Asian American.”
Another Chinese-born adoptee who wishes to remain anonymous describes the experience as a continuous journey with no end point. “When it comes to adoption, many people only see the positive aspects, such as the fact that the adoptee has a great life,” the person explains. “But in fact, there are gains and losses. In gaining, we lose our family of origin, culture, language and country, things we may never get back. I feel very lucky and grateful for what I have, but I also want to acknowledge the complexities of adoption.”
The murder in 2020 of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white police officer, led to a nationwide anti-racism campaign. For Mei, who studies international relations at American University in Washington, D.C., the movement had a personal impact, causing her to look back at the moments of being “whitened” or “labeled” as a child and to re-examine her relationship with her parents.
Philanthropist Wang Jiayu holds an orphaned baby in China’s Yingshang province Xinhua/ ZUMA Wire
Her parents had always told her in the past “we don’t see you as Asian, we just see you as our daughter.” But for Mei, there’s something unsatisfying about that line of thinking. She remembers her mother — a Democrat and the mother of two Asian children — feeling defensive, for example, when Mei read a book about white privilege.
“I realized that for many white parents, it’s hard to be really aware of their own behavior, or to face their own inherent biases and their own deeply rooted racism,” Mei explains. “It’s also hard for them to face their own inherent prejudice and embedded racism.”
Yi Wendong (Emma Coath), who was born in 1999 in Jiangxi, China, also grew up in a mostly white Pennsylvania neighborhood. The difference in her case, however, is that Wendong has three sisters who were also adopted from China, plus a neighbor who adopted three Chinese girls. As a result, she grew up with six similarly aged adopted children from China. And although she was troubled by “not knowing whether to eat salad like an American or Chinese food like a Chinese,” she felt “very fortunate to have people in my family who look like me, who have dark hair and dark skin.”
The young woman was studying graphic and interactive design at Temple University in Pennsylvania when she accidentally discovered that two of her female classmates were also Chinese adoptees, and they were both eager to meet more adoptees from similar backgrounds. And so, as part of a design assignment, Wendong excitedly showed her professor the social software she had created to serve Chinese adoptees and adoptive parents.
“Many people don’t see adoption as part of history, but it needs to be mentioned.”
She named the software Péngyou, or “friends” in Chinese, to not only allow adoptees to connect with each other, but also give adoptive parents a way to form an online community to share their parenting experiences. Unfortunately, the professor failed to grasp why the idea held such significance for Wendong. “Many people don’t see adoption as part of history, but it needs to be mentioned,” she says.
On the heels of the Floyd killing, another anti-racism campaign — the Stop Asian Hate movement — took shape and gained considerable momentum in places like New York and San Francisco. But in Wendong’s small Pennsylvania town, it hardly made a ripple. At any rate, the young woman will soon be moving on. She recently landed a designer job in another city. She’s excited about the change, but also worried. Not being with her white parents presents another kind of identity crisis.
As researcher C.N. Le explains, the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements have shown everyone, especially Asians and Asian Americans, that they can’t take for granted that they’ll automatically be accepted into mainstream U.S. society.
“Their social status is still very fragile and precarious,” he says. “I hope that Asian adoptees will not run away from their identities and will confront their hostility and unite with others who suffer from racism, whether they be other Asian Americans, African Americans, or other people of color.”
Mei is doing just that. At her university in Washington, D.C. she is researching ways to raise white racial sensitivity. She has also returned to her high school and community to speak and urge people to donate and care about people of different identities. She says she’s “learned her identity as an interracial adoptee to engage in more meaningful discussions.”