This project has been formed and constructed under an architectural concept of common use and sharing of information that takes into account the different dimensions of environmental resources, and combines them with a cloud service infrastructure to improve the convenience, timeliness, accuracy and integrity of information access, creating new opportunities to reconstitute our country’s information on environmental resources. 　　During the execution of the project, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) has given priority to expansion of its integrated and enlarged open platform for water resources, following the "Working principles for Open Data of the Executive Yuan and its subordinate organs at all levels”, taking into account the characteristics of open data sets, and expanding the categories and exchange mechanisms for Open Data on the “Platform for Open data on water resources”. 　　In addition, the current content of public value in the e-River Online Information Service, the thematic network around the WRA Newsletter, the WRA website on Sustainable Public Works, and the River Restoration Network, were through analysis converted into Open Data, with governmental data sets that are “free resources, relevant to people’s livelihood, increasing in value through use, compatible with other data, and not available elsewhere” being made publicly available first for value-adding applications. 　　The platform has a comprehensive control mechanism for user and administration rights and data maintenance functions, enabling users across different sectors to build platforms to manage units and sets of Open Data, to create distinctive services through interdisciplinary integration of environmental data such as “predicting people’s needs”, “environmental education", "value-added applications based on public information”, that are diverse, welcomed by the public, and giving form and shape to the concept of transparency and sharing of public information. 　　During the execution of the project, the "e-Rivers Network Information Service" won the fifth "Government Service Quality Award" last year, while this year in order to enhance the information services of "Water Knowledge Management" and to implement the environmental education of river ecology systems, an “e-River Knowledge Service Network” was established. This network has an e-River Website with a glossary to define and unify key terms to make content search, content sharing and calculations more valuable. Through affiliated technologies, the network also connects any information, events, articles, visuals, video, e-books, and trips related to rivers to make it more widely available for interested users. 　　To improve the efficiency of the WRA Newsletter’s distribution and to enhance its ‘stickiness’ with readers, new functionalities were added to the newsletter. Thus the editorial process of the newsletter was improved and its transmission made more stable and secure. The newsletter was given different looks according to the seasons and festivities of the year to ensure readers retain a fresh feeling towards this communication platform between the government and the people. Each newsletter provides comprehensive and highly interactive water-related knowledge. The newsletter is organized by the 5E concept of the e-River Network: Electronic (platform integration], Exchange (interaction), Environment (ecology), Education (river-focused), Enjoyment (of river-related leisure). As a result, subscriptions to the e-newsletter have grown from several hundred to nearly 8,000 (October 31, 2014). A sustained marketing campaign has attracted more people to the e-River Knowledge Service Network, the thematic network around the WRA Newsletter, the e-River Knowledge Network Fan Page and the newsletter. 　　In line with the Open Data policy of the Executive Yuan, the WRA continued to put the concept of data and information sharing into action. Thus this project created a series of innovative Open Data applications, put out Calls for Papers, and promoted its activities through its newsletter in order to increase the general public’s value-added re-use of Open Data regarding water resources and the environment, giving the general public greater access, anytime, anywhere, to knowledge regarding environmental quality and ecological conservation and to know-how regarding participation in environmental protection. As a result, the subscriber base has expanded, the click-through rates from the articles have grown as well. In another development of creating diversified, interactive, and value-added services from the general public’s perspective, the project deepened its Web 2.0 service through its Facebook page, a diversified communication and service channel for two-way communication with our community. 　　In line with the fourth stage of the e-Government Program (2012-2016), and with an eye on a future Department of Environmental Data, and concentrating on water-related environmental information, this environmental integration project focuses on "integrated leverage of data on environmental resources", "developing system norms", "policy analysis applications", "diverse information dissemination" and "active customized services". Through public-public and public-private collaboration, this project will continue to build a readily available, integrated, comprehensive, diversified, analytical, and interactive service centered on water environmental resources data and information and applications for ecologically sustainable development, to enhance the government’s operational efficiency, improve the overall quality of government services, and to provide innovative end-to-end services that meet the needs of the people.

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