Working Report of
Legislative Councilor Samson Tam Wai Ho
(Information Technology)(July 2010) 中文 I. Focus Updates1. Moved a motion to urge the Government to implement young people’s civic participation by using ICT
提出動議，促使政府利用ICT，落實青年人公民參與My motion of “Utilizing Young People's Power of Civic Participation” was passed at the LegCo meeting on 7 July. I proposed this motion in the hope that the Government would understand that the Net Generation will inevitably generate more social movements. Young people would express their views on unfair and unjust affairs in our society in order to promote social reform. Our Government should change their current mindset to face the young people directly and embrace their views. Senior officials should discard their prejudices and promote social reform together with the young people by fostering social cohesion and wisdom. I urged the Government to make reference to the experience of other countries/regions to formulate overall objectives and strategies, and allocate sufficient resources to enhance young people's civic participation. In addition, the Government or the officials should:
formulate clear public sector information access policy to make government information and documents available to members of the public, so that they have the right to access and comment; make use of the Web 2.0 interactive platform to enhance direct communication between policy-making officials and the young people, so as to listen to their views; change their mentality and attitude to bravely deal with interactive communications and accept criticism; and allocate resources to education and social culture to enhance the quality of the network citizens, and promote communication based on logical approach, mutual trust and respect, thereby bringing together social wisdom effectively.
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