Taiwan is the world’s third-ranking supplier of computers and peripherals, and its capital city, Taipei, hosts the country’s greatest concentration of high-tech firms.  But in 1998, newly elected Mayor Dr. Ying-jeou Ma took a more ambitious step by introducing a far-reaching initiative to transform Taipei into a “CyberCity.”  Uniquely, this project was driven by Dr. Ma’s appreciation for Taipei’s physical limits.  The city is bounded by mountains on three sides and a river on the fourth.  Rising congestion on the roads, as automobile ownership has risen to 258 per 1,000 people, led the government to base its development vision on moving information rather than people and goods.