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Directors' Symposium 2018
Big Data and Cities
Big Data has become an important concern for directors. Dr Winnie Tang, Founder and Honorary President of Smart City Consortium, gave an interesting discussion on the use of open data in transforming city life, with Hong Kong as a case study. She discussed the Hong Kong Smart City Blueprint, which was released on 15 December 2017, emphasising that "Smart City is people centric".
Dr Tang highlighted that the Hong Kong Smart City Blueprint relies on the use of Open Data, including both public and private data in Application Programming Interfaces (API) which are the set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications that we use on a daily basis. She pointed to many aspects of society that would be transformed to facilitate smart city services. They include finance, banking and city infrastructure, eg the use of Smart Lampposts to collect real-time city data, the implementation of eID – electronic identity. However, Open Data is still a very new concept, and is not well regulated in Hong Kong. Dr Tang pointed out that to cultivate innovation in smart city technology, there should be more legislation on Open Data, referencing other jurisdictions such as Singapore, Japan, Dubai, New York and Australia With Open Data legislation in place. Moreover, Los Angeles has developed common data spatial data infrastructure to share data such as sanitation levels on streets, while the UK has plans to establish a Geospatial Commission to facilitate interdepartmental collaboration on strategies to improve the collection and access of geospatial data. Hong Kong needs to catch up if it wants to continue to be competitive in our changing world, commented Dr Tang.
大數據及城市
大數據已成為董事的重大關注。智慧城市聯盟創辦人及榮譽主席鄧淑明博士以香港為研究個案討論如何利用開放數據變革城市生活，內容有趣。
鄧博士討論了於2017年12月15日發表的《香港智慧城市藍圖》，強調「智慧城市是以人為本」。《香港智慧城市藍圖》依賴使用開放數據，包括應用程式介面的公營及私營機構開放數據，當中包括用以開發日常使用的軟件應用程式的程序、協定及工具。金融、銀行及城市基礎設施等事物都是透過科技變革的社會範疇，例如利用「多功能智慧燈柱」收集實時城市數據、及實施數碼個人身分（eID）。不過，開放數據的概念依然非常新，香港在這方面的規管並不周全。鄧博士指要促進開放數據和智能城市科技的創新，必須就開放數據進行更多立法，她更說新加坡、日本、杜拜、紐約及澳洲等地方已就開放數據訂立法例。此外，洛杉磯亦已發展出空間數據共享基礎設施供分享街道衛生水平等數據，英國亦計劃成立地緣空間委員會以促進部門間的策略協同，改善地緣空間數據的收集及查閱。如果香港要在瞬息萬變的世界保持競爭能力，必須急起直追。