NCCU has accumulated knowledge and scholarly theories in fields including the liberal arts, social sciences, law, commerce, communications, and international affairs. From the perspective of IT applications, NCCU has all the resources required to become a knowledge and content center. In contrast to its counterparts, which usually specialize in science and engineering, the Department offers students an IT education that integrates liberal arts, social sciences, law, commerce, communications, and international affairs, providing students with unique advantages and opportunities that may develop into an environment for innovation and training for individuals working in knowledge economy, digital content, and mobile telecommunication industries.

The Department actively works with other NCCU departments to form research teams. Under a common framework, we pool our resources and consolidate the results of our integrated research projects conducted under the National Science Council and Council for Cultural Affairs. These efforts have enabled us to apply IT to media content, law, public administration, and other areas.

In recent years, NCCU has taken the initiative to promote academic research and has been actively encouraging interdisciplinary integration in order to benefit from the resulting synergies. NCCU's senior management pays particular attention to the catalytic, linking, and integrating roles IT plays, and hopes that it will lead NCCU's liberal arts departments into the digital age, and materialize the vision of digital brain power and the knowledge economy.

In September 2002, NCCU prepared an IT white paper in which the current status of its IT education, research, and application are reviewed, and the issues, development objectives, and implementation strategies concerning organization manpower, resource allocation, and information competence are presented. The white paper recommends that NCCU's IT development goals should focus on applications and integration, and that its role in an information society should be the close integration of the planning, production, and management of digital content.

In the future, the Department plans to work closely with other NCCU departments with unique development potential, help them add value, and promote interdisciplinary integration and innovation. In terms of IT applications, the Department plans to conduct in-depth research on a broad range of subjects, train well-rounded IT professionals for industry and government employment, and broaden the scope of innovative IT ideas and synchronized exchanges of IT talent in an effort to equip Taiwan with the IT capabilities it needs to transform its economy.