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Taiwan is a major manufacturing centre for global information and communication technology (ICT) companies (Huang 2006). In the Global Competitiveness Report 2005–2006, Taiwan ranked fifth among 117 countries in the Growth Competitiveness Index and third in the technology index (FIND 2005). In the 2005 Digital Opportunity Index Ratings of the ITU, Taiwan’s overall rating was 0.64, ranking seventh in the world and fourth in Asia Pacific. In March 2006, the Global Information Technology Report of the World Economic Forum also showed that Taiwan ranks seventh in the world and fourth in Asia Pacific in terms of network readiness. With respect to e-government performance, Taiwan ranked first among 198 countries surveyed by Brown University in 2002, 2004 and 2005. The Point Topic Survey in March 2006 ranked Taiwan number five worldwide in terms of broadband household penetration and number six in terms of DSL lines. 
To meet the science and technology standards of a developed nation by 2010, Taiwan has been working to increase R&D funding to 3 per cent of GDP and the number of research personnel with college or advanced degrees to 32 persons per 10,000 by 2007. 
Meanwhile, R&D work on IPv6 is ongoing in line with the implementation of the e-Taiwan policy.