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Chester Soong – Letter to IT Practitioners and Professionals
Chester is Asia's well-recognized pioneer in network security, and a good friend since we both started our own ISPs in 1994. I am glad to have Chester as my first weekly "featured IT people." -- Charles Mok
A problem or complaint I often hear from friends in IT is that we are not respected as professionals, and are seen as an expense agent rather than an asset or even revenue generator to their companies.
IT is a unique field where various disciplines flourish, similar to the engineering profession. Each IT discipline demands a great deal of training and domain knowledge to deliver quality services. However, the potentials in using IT to achieve business goals, by incorporating IT applications into the organization and business processes, are unfortunately often neglected.
When Charles and I recently visited some of the largest IT organizations in Hong Kong to understand their needs and concerns, this lack
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of professional approval was repeatedly emphasized as an area of dissatisfaction. Yet, when people take IT as an expense center, or if senior management does not realize the importance of IT in delivering values to their customers, they don't deserve to be in such positions.
So make your voice heard. Charles, myself or others in the IT election committee have been urging IT people to register as IT voters before May 16. I just can't emphasize enough that this is one of the very few chances we have to empower ourselves and choose our Legco representative, to make our case to the government that IT matters!
Chester Soong
Member, Election Committee, IT Sub-sector (2006)
Information on IT voter eligibility: http://www.sinchungkai.org.hk/ITVoter
Voter Registration Form (Individual): Download
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The Formative Years
This carefree looking young man was me circa. 1980, a secondary school student in Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, where I spent six good years from 1976 to 1982.
Wah Yan's Jesuit vision is about "a holistic, liberating and transforming Catholic education within a learning community, for students to become "progressively competent, committed,
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compassionate, spiritual, and ethically discerning persons with a universal heart contributing to the welfare and happiness of all, in particular the poor and the neglected."
It has also been said that a Jesuit education is "to form a man to train him to think...(and) to analyze." The free intellectual environment has nurtured minds as diverse as from Martin Lee to Donald Tsang, or characters as distinct as from Alan Leong to Stephen Lam.
Although I am indeed very far being in or even close to the same league as these distinguished gentlemen, still I humbly believe my educational experience has benefited me with an independent mind, free thinking and a will to serve.
Charles Mok
charlespmok@gmail.com
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Keeping up with the Migration to IPv6
Earlier Internet Society Hong Kong (ISOC HK) conducted an IPv6 training with the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) in Cyberport. Here are some useful resources on IPv6 development and migration – the technology and the status. The message is: Hong Kong better keep up!
IPv6 Deployment: Just Where Are We? – Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist (Internet), Telstra, and Executive Director, Internet Architecture Board
APNIC IPv6 Resource Guide
IPv6 Development in Hong Kong – David Chung, IPv6 Forum Hong Kong, and Cyberport
IPv4 Address Exhaustion Study – JPNIC
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Gotta Serve Somebody / Bob Dylan
<click to listen>
I "rediscovered" Bob Dylan in 1979 with this song – "Gotta Serve Somebody", from his album "Slow Train Coming", which was essentially Dylan's born-again Christian proclamation. Whoever you are, wherever you live and work, whatever you do, whether or not there is fame or personal interest to gain or not, you'd better serve somebody. <Click to read lyrics>
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