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Working Report of Legislative Councilor Samson Tam Wai Ho (Information Technology) (February 2010)
I. Focus Updates
1. Trip to Singapore to study how to promote Interactive Government I visited Singapore recently for the purpose of studying its policies, measures and experiences in promoting Interactive Government. One of the departments we visited was REACH and the full name is Reaching Everyone for Active Citizenry @Home. In October 2006, this department was established as a government consultation portal in Singapore. Singapore Government encourages citizens to express their opinions by using Internet Social Networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Those tools not only have enhanced civic education but also have become the communication platform between the Government and the Net Generation. I believe that making use of the Internet to involve the public, particularly the young people to participate in social affairs will become a prevailing trend. Looking at our Government departments, the arrangements for online policy consultation are fragmented and lack of interaction. Therefore, in conjunction with the industry I urged the Government to make reference to Singapore’s experience, to allocate more resources and speed up the establishment of Government 2.0, as well as to open up a policy discussion channel with the Net Generation.
2. Witnessed the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation of professional qualification between Hong Kong and Guangdong Early February, I was invited to go to Guangzhou to attend the “2010 Annual Meeting of Guangdong ICT” and witnessed the signing of the cooperation memorandum of IT professional qualification among Guangdong and Hong Kong IT-related organizations such as Hong Kong Computer Society. I think, under the framework of CEPA, accelerating the mutual recognition of IT professional qualifications is definitely beneficial to the exchange of professional and technical personnel of Hong Kong with those in the Mainland. This will also facilitate the entry of our services into the Mainland market and the promotion of developing the Six Industries. To this end, the Government should actively assist local IT professional bodies to communicate and cooperate with related organizations in the Mainland, so as to create more opportunities for benefiting the IT industry and the Hong Kong economy as a whole quickly.
3. Organized forum of IT@ Import and Export industry, strengthening e-trade development Despite the worldwide financial tsunami, Asia’s export of e-trade has recorded strong growth which far exceeds that of Europe and America. This indicates a huge potential for e-trade development. Early this month, I organized a roundtable forum and invited friends from the Import and Export sector and IT sector to discuss how to promote HK SMEs’, e-trade development. Some participants mentioned that local SMEs generally lack IT knowledge and confidence in online security, thus hindering them from participating in e-trade. Therefore, I hope the Government will consider allocating IT matching fund for SMEs, and provide free IT consultation service to help them to develop e-trade. I will endeavor to promote on the e-trade platform such as eBay and provide training and technical supports so that local SMEs can enhance their competitiveness. 4. Not in favor of the Government on the introduction of charge on telephone directory enquiry services
5. Urged the Government to allocate more resources to support the implementation of the “debundling” policy At the panel meeting on Education on 8 February, members discussed textbook price policy and e-learning development. The Education Bureau decided to adopt the recommendations from the Working Group on Textbooks and e-Learning Resources Development requiring textbook publishers to apply the “debundling” policy. This would prevent the sale and purchase of textbooks bundled with teaching/learning materials. However, textbook publishers pointed out that there would be difficulties in the implementation of the policy, which might generate intellectual property issues. They requested the administration to postpone implementation to 2012. I hope that the Government and textbook publishers could reach a consensus on the transitional period as soon as possible and that the latter would provide discounts in the interim period. In order to promote e-learning and teaching, the most important thing is to allocate sufficient resources to schools and teachers for their purchase of e-learning materials after implemented the “debundling” policy.
6. Welcome to express your opinions on the Budget 2010/11 Mr. John Tsang, the Financial Secretary has released the 2010/11 Budget and the Budget Debate will be held on 14 April in the Legislative Council. During this period, I welcome opinions from both the ICT industry and the community at large. Please let me have your views and suggestions on the Budget, so that I will reflect to the Government. My email address is:
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