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Summer break
The Legislative Council will take a summer recess from mid-July to late September, and resume in early October.

I would like to invite you to join the following events:

Invitation for submissions on preliminary proposals on various copyright-related issues
The Legco Panel on Commerce and Industry now invites written views on various copyright-related issues. The public hearing will be held on:
Date: 19 July 2005
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Chamber of the Legislative Council Building

Interested parties are requested to provide their submission to the Clerk to the Panel (preferably in both Chinese and English and with soft copy) and to indicate whether they intend to make oral presentation to the Panel at the meeting. Registration and reply slip should be completed and return on or before 11 July 2005. For details, please visit here.

Cyberport Games Marathon
This event aims to introduce electronic games developed by Hong Kong companies to the general public and to promote a positive and healthy gaming culture in Hong Kong.

Date: July 1-3 and 9- 10, 2005
Venue: Cyberport
Website: http://games.cyberport.hk

ASTRI Forum & Career Day 2005
To promote ASTRI and its technology programs, as well as to recruit technical staff, ASTRI is proud to present - the "ASTRI Forum and Career Day 2005"- which will be held as follows:

Date: 23 July 2005 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 am to 4:30pm
Venue: JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, Salons 5 - 6, One Pacific Place , 88 Queensway, Hong Kong
Website: http://www.astri.org/careerday2005/
Enquiries: 3406 2800 or corporate@astri.org

The 6th Info-Security Conference 2005
The annual Info-Security Conference, which gathers more than 1,000 industry professionals and decision makers, will be the most promising occasion for the leading security vendors to capture the potentials. Featuring distinguished speakers from prominent IT and Private enterprises such as MTR Corporation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Town Gas Telecommunications Co., Ltd, Sun Life Financial Asia and Airport Authority Hong Kong with comprehensive discussions covering the hottest issues in the industry, the Executive Round Table Discussion session facilitated by a renowned professional moderator will be the major highlight of this year's conference.

Date: 28 July 2005
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Registration: Online registration, or please contact Ms. Grace Wu at 2186-8725 or grace.wu@e21mm.com.

CK Sin

Survey results
Hong Kong Information Security Annual Survey
From April 20 to June 30, 2005, my office and 5 Information Security related IT professional bodies jointly conducted "Hong Kong Information Security Annual Survey". The survey targets the Hong Kong IT environment and it is the first time the survey is conducted and it will be conducted periodically in future.

This survey addresses the major IT security concerns in the IT industry from the information security practitioners (or professions) in Hong Kong. All respondents of this survey are security professions in Hong Kong. To release the survey result, we have conducted a press briefing on 4 July and the media coverage is fairly good. More details can be found from the press release [Chinese / English] and survey result [English only].

Panels

Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting
11 July 2005

Agenda

• Proposed anti-spam legislation
• Broadcasting services of Radio Television Hong Kong
• Domestic/private pirated viewing of subscription television programmes
• Consultation exercise on the regulation of Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony

Panel on Commerce and Industry
19 July 2005

Agenda

• Proposals on various copyright-related issues

Activities

Briefing Session on Reciprocal Recognition of Qualification between the HKCS and HKIE

The Professional Development and Training Committee of HKCS and the representatives of HKIE will address members' queries at the briefing session

Date: 11 July 2005
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: HKU Space Wanchai Learning Centre, 3/F, Causeway Centre, 28 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (Exit A5, Wanchai MTR Station)

HKCS Networking Hour: Sharing of "HKCS ICT Visit to Japan"

The HKCS International/China Affairs Committee organized a visit to Japan from June 6-8. Mr Stephen Lau from HKCS and the members of the delegation will share their experience and insight with you on the latest development in ubiquitous computing and future ICT collaboration between Japan and Hong Kong/China.

Date: 11 July 2005
Time: after the Briefing Session on Reciprocal Recognition of Qualification between the HKCS and HKIE

HKITF Summer Networking Hours 2005

Date: 22 July 2005 (Friday)
Time: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: PCCW Showcase, 7/F Somerset House, Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Topic: Next Generation Wireless
Guest Speakers: Mr. M.H. Au, JP, Director-Telecommunications Authority of HKSAR Government, Mr. C.K. Sin, JP, Legislative Councilor of ITFC and Dr. Liang Wu, Executive VP, Emerging Technology of PCCW
R.S.V.P: Ms. Rachel Wong (Tel: 3101-8197 or Rachel.wong@hkitf.org.hk )
Supporting Organizations: HKCS, HKISPA, ISIA, RTIA and WTIA

News

OFTA Announces Tightened Measures against Junk Fax Senders

Under the new measures, an FTNS operator will disconnect all the lines provided to a subscriber at a registered address if there are two established complaints against the subscriber for sending out junk fax. The lines can be disconnected in five days upon notice.Previously, junk fax senders had their lines disconnected upon three established complaints and there was no suggested notice period for disconnection other than those specified by individual operators.

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