III was incorporated in 1979, through the joint efforts of public and private sectors, as a Non-Goverment Organization (NGO), to support the development/applications of information industry as well as information society in Taiwan.

III has supported Taiwan's ICT industry with advanced technologies and international links to strengthen its global competitiveness, with focus on areas such as:
-- Embedded systems, multimedia, networks/communications, smart handheld devices, information appliances, sensor networks, audio/video codecs, 3D graphics, broadband and wireless industries
-- Strategic planning and development of large scale national infrastructure and application systems, such as e-Government, e-Transportation, e-HealthCare, e-Logistics, e-Weather, e-Banking, Natural Disaster Mitigation and RFID applications
-- In-house WCDMA/HSDPA protocols and WLAN/WiMAX technologies, IEEE 802.16j technology development,
-- Market intelligence gathering and analysis, science and technology law implication, promotion and media services
-- Standardized content authoring tool, M-Learn authoring tool, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Content Management Systems (CMS), and Content Trading Platforms that provide e-Learning companies with core technology modules for speeding up their developing process, and offering a total solution for enterprises to develop in-house training courses
-- Professional training on ICT, IT Enabled Services, Operations and Management , and Digital Contents fields