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Chapter Three - Right Place

3.7
Data transparency

promotes mutual

trust

The smart lamppost project, an important pilot programme
of the smart city development in Hong Kong, will collect
a lot of city data, for example on air pollution and traffic.

However, public concern on their privacy being intruded 203
has been heightened by Facebook’s leakage of customer
data. How can the government gain the trust of its people?
I think enhancing the transparency and opening the data

related to people’s everyday activities will certainly help.
The proven local and overseas experiences tell us it can
not only reduce bias, but also help facilitate rational public
discussion.

Chicago's example: Array of Things

Increasing data transparency will increase people’s
confidence in the government. Chicago, one of the

largest city in the United States, installed 500 real-time