World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) - Hong Kong

WTISD - Hong Kong is co-organized by my office and Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK). It is the second time which we join hands together, to celebratethe WTISD (previously known as World Information Society Day), which is held each year on 17 May starting from 1969 to commemorate the founding of the ITU in 1865.

This year, the theme of the WTISD is Connecting Persons with Disabilities: ICT Opportunities for All". The program is enriched with the introduction of new initiatives: Pan-PRD ICT Innovation Competition and Geo-caching Hunting Competition, targeting the youth community.

Launching Ceremony of WTISD was held on 17 May, more than 100 celebrities from the ICT industry attended the ceremony.

The Government Chief Information Officer Mr. Jeremy Godfrey and the Director-General of Telecommunications Mrs. Marion Lai Chan Chi-Kuen showed full support to the event, and shared their views on the future development of ICT.

Mrs. Marion Lai	Mr. Jeremy Godfrey

Prizes were presented to the winners of the competitions.

The Communications Tour will be arranged on 23 and 24 May. This year, with an overwhelming number of applicants, we have doubled the event quota, 800 secondary and tertiary students will have the opportunity to visit significant information infrastructure and prohibited areas of various ICT companies.

For more information on the WTISD please visit our event page.

Promoting ICT is a continuous effort, and I would like to thank all the sponsors, companies and organizations, which contributed to the project in nurturing young talents and encouraging high quality students to join our industry. I hope that the WTISD will continue to be one of the most important projects, in arousing the interest and awareness of ICT industry among our younger generation.

CK Sin

Panels

• Issues relating to the recent losses of portable electronic storage devices containing personal data held by government departments/public hospitals and online leakage of confidential information held by the Immigration Department

Motions

28 May 2008

• The 4 June incident.
• Immediately improving the health care services in Hong Kong.

Council questions

• Development of a platform for geospatial information (14 May 2008)

Activities

IT for Disaster Relief - Relief.Asia

Relief.Asia is an online platform which was developed in the wake of the Myanmar Cyclone and Sichuan Earthquake Disaster that tore through the region in May, 2008. The website was deployed as a tool and platform to drive awareness and community contribution towards the rebuilding of nature-savaged regions such as Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Sichuan, through the application of Information Technology.

While we mourn for the victims, we can get involved by contributing financially (http://donate.relief.asia) or volunteering (http://volunteer.relief.asia) your time to relief efforts in Asia. We could even help out by simply spreading the news about Relief.Asia's (http://support.relief.asia) existence!

For further details, please visit http://www.relief.asia.

Asia Pacific Web Technology Conference

Asia Pacific Web Technology Conference is a conference for latest web technologies, funded by the Government of HKSAR and supported by IT professional bodies in Hong Kong. It aims to connect international industrial leaders and technology experts for fostering the web technology development in the region. Asia Pacific Web Technology Conference features international successful and innovative leaders and companies to present emerging Internet technologies, development strategies and frameworks as well as business models with the focus on the development of Web 2.0 applications.

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