Home Visits

As a candidate for re-election of Information Technology Functional Constituency, I loved to reach out and talk to our voters, understand their concerns. This will be particularly useful for my work as your representative in legco.

But reaching out to meet my voters is not easy. There are over 60,000 IT professionals in this sector. Since to be qualified as an IT voter, one needs to be voting members of an IT professional body. Altogether, 4570 voters are eligible to vote in the forthcoming election. This has already had some significant increase. There was only 3200 voters in 1998 and 3800 in 2000. Definitely, I would like to see as many IT professional members registered as possible. I did urge IT professionals to register as IT voters in April and May this year. Therefore, I rely pretty much on your positive response, email or fax reply of my survey. Most of the private residential estatbles do not allow any election candidate to carry out home visit unless such home visit is requested by the resident.

I received various sorts of comments on the current status of the IT sector. Some looks pretty gloomy. Some have some bounce-back sentiment. The feeling is relatively mixed. But the consensus seems to be about IT jobs, our competitive edge.

I was questioned by a voter in one election forum if I served the IT sector of IT voters. My reply is straight forward. I serve Hong Kong with particular interest in IT because I represent the IT sector. But a legislator do have to participate issues related to the livelihood of Hong Kong. For example, article 23, budget cut on tertiary education, SARS, etc.

I need to communicate my positions on various issues to with my voters and my constituency. Blog is a useful too. In the future, I can write my speech in the legco and publish my speech in legco after I speak in the council.