Who Am I?
The top picture the right is me in 1970, taken near Queen's Pier, which is now stored somewhere in a government warehouse, and also part of our collective memory.
Like many of you, I was born, raised and educated in Hong Kong , and IT is my profession. I started by career with DEC and Sun in the U.S. , and returned to Hong Kong in 1994 to start up one of the earliest ISPs in Hong Kong, HKNet.
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Today, I am a director in several local small and medium-sized technology companies, such as Darizi.com and Y5Zone.
My IT public service started in 1995 when the Internet industry was confronted with controversial issues from government and the community alike, much like today – telecom regulation, fair competition, child protection, information freedom, network security and so on. I was the chairman of HKISPA and then the president of HKITF, where I promoted cross-border collaboration with China for IT SMEs, with projects like IT Solution Directory, CMM adoption and alliances for IT outsourcing. I am now the Chairman of Internet Society Hong Kong, the local chapter of the global Internet organization, ISOC, which provides leadership in standards, education and policy.
Today, I am dedicated to continue my passion in changing Hong Kong to recognize IT as our strategic asset, through sustained investment in IT education, manpower development, and professional certification. We must also reposition our IT industry by harnessing key applications in community-based services such as healthcare and transport, and expand our firms’ market presence regionally including to China, where I believe our IT firms should receive national treatment in conducting business in the Mainland.
In 2007, I co-founded The Professional Commons, a think tank made up of professionals, to improve public governance and empower the community in the policy-making process. Almost needless to say, I support the earliest possible introduction of universal suffrage in Hong Kong .
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