Hong Kong government
Vicky Fung, senior health informatician with the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, discusses the Hong Kong government's approach in the process of developing a standard that public and private healthcare practitioners in Hong Kong can follow.
The Hong Kong government is giving great importance to promoting the sustainable development of human capital in the face of increasingly fierce global competition and a fast-changing world, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, said last week.
Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, believes that IT security in the public sector is on the rise. He notes the work being done by the Office of the Government CIO to provide standards and policies around security.
RFID technology is still in its early infancy. GS1 Hong Kong chief executive, Anna Lin, believes that the Hong Kong Government needs to play an important role in the promotion of this technology among potential users as well as the ecosystem of suppliers/vendors that would support the user community. According to Ms. Lin, the SAR Government has been working with standards bodies like GS1 to educate the market and provide seed funding to help kickstart industry adoption of RFID.
Hong Kong's government CIO, Jeremy Godfrey tells Enterprise Innovation how public sector IT spending is geared to delivering results first and foremost regardless of the economy while speed and efficiency are also paramount during such times.
DTTN is a government-endorsed community wide platform that allows any company to reduce costs and improve its efficiency by interconnecting quickly with its trade, logistics, and financial partners using one single, low-cost, digital link.
The Hong Kong government is now inviting tenders for IT services under the Standing Offer Agreement for Quality Professional Services (SOA-QPS) scheme and procurement of about 2,500 PCs.
A recent article by our senior reporter Teresa Leung said that LegCo plans to hire "seven IT specialists for a study leading to a strategic plan to improve its current IT environment and prepare a roadmap for the IT facilities in the new LegCo complex at the Tamar site."
