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Chapter Four - Right People
4.6
How young girls
create their smart
future
Together with KPMG, CLP, JOS and Siemens, the Smart City
Consortium released a survey report on the development
of the smart city in Hong Kong in 2018. More than 500
business executives and 1,000 citizens were interviewed; 263
both groups of interviewees expressed their view that
education was one of the top three elements for Hong
Kong's continued prosperity.
They also expressed their belief that engineering and
applied science were crucial to Hong Kong's development
in the coming ten years. Today, as we are overwhelmed
by information technology, such expectation is very
reasonable. However, do our children have the same
aspiration?