Challenges and Opportunities, the Global Economy in the Transition Phase

The host team prepares three subtopics for participants to write their essays. The actual contents of the events during the sessions are more diversified. Please carefully read through the study guide first to learn more about GIS Taiwan 2009.

As the old saying goes, "Where there is a will, there is a way." We once have pondered what might have happened when we reach the millennium roughly nine years ago, and now we’re seeing another crisis in front of us, the financial turmoil commencing since the second half of 2007, and trying to find a way out. Needless to say, the importance of acknowledging ongoing human history and analyzing each event lies in the responsibility of humans while analysis is conducted in the manner of defining the problem and trying to solve it with the most adequate method.

The topic: "Challenges & Opportunities — the Global Economy in the Transition Phase" shall be examined and discussed thoroughly through out this symposium. We hope to gather the talented youth with a variety of cultural background around the world, in the hope of obtaining cross-country fertilization and innovative perspective on this far-reaching event through discussing, brainstorming, and collaborating. A broader scope is expected to be taken as we try not to narrow down ourselves to only financial and economic issues.

It’s a chance for you to be a "fortune-teller", or even the one who shape the future world landscape. The impacts and implications for worldwide financial turmoil shouldn’t be ignored. The conference is aimed to give participants the position of “where we currently are” after the financial tsunami, as well as providing a possible road-map to our career and a valuable guidance to our lives. It would be therefore interesting to flash back years later to examine the fruitful results yield in this conference. And we firmly believe that issues discussed here will have surprisingly close interaction with the world.