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Work Report for March-June, 2009
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The past four months were hectic time for me, and my public service and industry work has never stopped. Over this period, Internet Society Hong Kong (ISOC-HK) organized three seminars on the topics of network security/bullying, media literacy, and the "Green Dam" software. We also held an
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IPv6 training with APNIC. And, Marcus Kummer, Executive Secretary of Internet Governance Forum, paid us a visit and gave a lunch talk for us. In May, IT Matters held its annual forum on how to facilitate IT adoption for SMEs.
Also worthy of mentioning would be my involvement in refining Hospital Authority's USB storage device strategy, which helped save millions. The public consultation for the West Kowloon Cultural District will also start soon, where I hope more electronic and network-based methods will be adopted. Recently, I have been heavily engaged with concerned parties locally as well as in the Mainland and abroad to fight against "Green Dam."
I attended all the meetings of the Information Technology and Broadcasting Panel in the last year of the Legco session. Three policy papers were provided by ISOC-HK to various panels, on the issues of Internet broadband access subsidies for poor children, domain name administration, and electronic health records. Moreover, the topic of digital copyright will enter the next phase of consultation and recommendations for regulations. I took the initiative of liaising for and between the rights owners and the online service providers, starting with an educational engagement series in July.
My other main industry areas of concern are: eLearning (a concern group has been formed, including IT Voice members), land use issues facing data centers; educating the public about the realities of “Green Dam,” especially its impact on information freedom and security; and of course COIAO will enter the second phase of its public consultation.
My door is wide open on my blog, Facebook, Twitter and emails, where I will be waiting inside to talk with you.
Charles Mok
charlespmok@gmail.com
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Dr. Robin Sarah Bradbeer of IT Voice
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At the beginning of this year I was elected as a Vice President of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. The election took place during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - the Aladdin's Cave for all techie fans. Many people have asked me why I am so active in the consumer electronics area when I also have a long association with all things Internet. Well, many years ago, sometime in the early
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1980s when the first personal computers began to be networked, both locally, and then remotely over the public telephone network, I recognised that the computing, communications and consumer fields were beginning to merge.
Then I met Bob Frankston. Bob is an amazing guy - one of the developers of VisiCalc - the application that gave Apple wings - and, at that time, working for Microsoft to promote his concept of 'IP anywhere'. The concept of giving every piece of consumer electronic device an individual IP address was of course fantasy at that time. But with the development and roll-out of IPv6 it is beginning to become reality. Currently, Japan is way ahead of anywhere else in tis development, and I am currently in Kyoto for a major IEEE conference where many such devices will be unveiled. If Hong Kong is to keep up with international developments in this area then we need to implement IPv6 as soon as possible. One of the projects I am very keen on, as Deputy Chair of the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Board of Directors, is to promote this standard and have it implemented as soon as practical. Currently this looks like being a long road to travel as the infrastructure here is not yet fully developed to do so. I hope that I am proved wrong!
Dr Robin Sarah Bradbeer
City University of Hong Kong
[Development of IPv6 in Hong Kong video]
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