Final Project Conference

Agenda

Recording

Introduction

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

Roundtable

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Trust and the Smart City: Final Project Conference

Date: 29 April 2022 (Fri)

Time: 10:30-19:00 Hong Kong Time

Venue: AAB1123

Mode: online event

Participants: HKBU students, GIS colleagues, external parties - academia, practitioners, other stakeholders

Team

The Project Team

(Left to Right)

Dr. Daphne Mah; Dr. Emilie Tran; Dr. Dionysios Stivas; Prof. Alistair Cole; Dr. Darren Cheung; Dr. Kevin Ip; Mr. Calvin Lai

Principal Investigator

Prof. Alistair Cole

Co-Investigators

(Left to Right)

Dr. Kevin Ip; Dr. Emilie Tran; Dr. Daphne Mah; Dr. Darren Cheung

The final project conference of the project “Trust and the Smart City” was held on 29 April 2022, at the Faculty of Social Science, HKBU, organized by the Department of Government and International Studies. Although we were forced to shift the event to be entirely online due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, the online conference was successfully organized as the final event of the project.

The online conference consists of three panels and a roundtable. We reflected the analysis results together with interpretations based on four work packages, and discussed with local and international scholars and practitioners. In addition to presentations delivered by our guest speakers on the three panels, we are pleased to have gathered a group of participants from Hong Kong, Germany, and France, who share an interest in the prospect of smart city development, for a roundtable discussion to conclude our project.

After Prof. Alistair Cole, the Head of the Department of Government and International Studies and the principal investigator of this project, has presented us a welcome remarks of the conference, our first panel "Key Findings of the Smart City Project", chaired by Dr. Kenneth Chan from Department of Government and International Studies, was initiated by Dr. Daphne Mah and Dr. Darren Cheung from Department of Geography with their presentation of results in work package 1 (smart energy grids).

We then have Prof. Cole again for the findings in work package 2 (smart government), and the presentation by Dr. Emilie Tran about the international collaboration with Sciences Po Lyon as outcomes of work package 3 (The Public Factory). The first panel was ended with the Dr. Kevin Ip's presentation. He leads work package 4 and presented us the underlying ethical issue in Hong Kong smart city development.

Our panel 2, titled "Public Trust and Urban Technologies", contained three presentations from Dr. Mah once again, Dr. Dionysios Stivas from Department of Government and International Studies, and Dr. Kris Hartley, a guest speaker from Department of Asian and Policy Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong. Dr. Mah's presentation "Co-construction and Local Participation in the Smart Energy Project" introduced the concepts and challenges of community energy, and her subsequence RIF project about solar energy in Hong Kong. Dr. Dionysios Stivas brought us the findings from the four focus groups as one of the research methods.

Dr. Kris Hartley, an public policy expert, delivered us "Public Trust and the Legitimacy of Government Technology in an Era of Disruption", a presentation about his research in public trust and political legitimacy, using the COVID19 situtation in Hong Kong as an example. We are delighted to have Prof. Roger Scully from Department of Government and International Studies to chair this panel.

Panel 3 "Prospect of Smart City Development" was chaired by Prof. Joseph Ng, a professor and the Director in the Department of Computer Science. We had firstly a presentation about "The Research and Design of the Smart City Index" by the project researcher Mr. Calvin Lai. His presentation gave us a general view of the current smart city indices regarding their quality and reliability.

Prof. Masaru Yarime, the associate professor and director in the Division of Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has been our guest speaker again after the first workshop, and presented his research on "Data Governance in the Smart City: Facilitating Innovation and Addressing Concerns". He also made a call for his upcoming conference "Data for Policy 2022".

At the end, Prof. Wilson Wong, also has been a guest speaker in the first workshop, accepted our invitation and delivered a presentation again in this final conference. His topic was "Trust-enabled Data Technology in the Smart City", which used the COVID19 contact tracing app to discuss the digital trust issue in Hong Kong.

The final session was a roundtable discussion with eight participants from Hong Kong, Germany, and France, chaired by Prof. Kenneth Paul Tan from School of Media and Communication. They generously shared their organization's contributions to the current smart city, their perspectives to the smart city development, and their reckoned key items from their experiences.

More than 30 participants have participated throughout the whole event, including our faculty members, students, local practitioners, foreign consulates, and representatives of international corporations. We are grateful to all the participants for co-creating a successful online event.

Roundtable Participants

Name and Affiliation

Chair: Professor Kenneth Paul Tan, Talent 100, Professor, School of Media and Communications, Hong Kong Baptist University

Ir. Leung Wai Kin

Mr Leung joined HK Electric after graduation from the University of Hong Kong in early 1990’s. Mr Leung has worked on power plant projects, electric mobility project and various strategic studies. Mr Leung has also over 10 years of experience in electricity market development, regulatory and policy affairs. He is now the Head of Customer Business Development with main responsibilities covering the development and implementation of new customer services under the Scheme of Control Agreement, and the strategic planning for new energy services conducive to customer benefits and relations. He is a registered professional engineer of Hong Kong and the UK. He is also a member of the BEC CCBF Advisory Group Steering Committee.

Mr. Michael Lake

Michael is the founding President and CEO of Leading Cities. As President and CEO, Michael establishes and develops relationships with municipal governments, private sector businesses and universities around the world, creating a global network of partner cities dedicated to creating business development and government cooperation opportunities and implementing public policy that effectively addresses the shared challenges facing 21st century cities. Michael has served as Special Assistant for White House Operations to two Presidents, policy research analyst to the former Prime Minister of Ireland, and Director of Development for United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley.

Dr. Axel Harneit-Sievers

By professional background, Axel Harneit-Sievers is a historian and political scientist specializing in the area of African Studies. He concluded his Ph.D. on economic aspects in the Nigerian nationalist movement at the University of Hannover (Germany) in 1990. Thereafter, he worked for more than a decade at universities and research institutions in Germany, especially the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin and the then Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg. Since 2002, he has been working with HBF, first as director of the Nigeria office in Lagos and, since December 2006, heading the Regional Office for East Africa/ Horn of Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. He heads the Hong Kong office since June 2021. Among his fields of interest and expertise are political analysis, development and resource policy, as well as gender issues. He has a strong interest in developing political dialogue within the Global South.

Dr. Ralf Schüle

Dr. Ralf Schüle is responsible for area of smart cities at the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in the Department of Digital City, Risk Prevention and Transport. As the project leader, he is responsible for setting up and implementing the accompanying research for the Smart Cities model projects in Germany. He has been appointed as honorary professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He worked at the Wuppertal Institute from 2004 to 2020 and was the co-head of the Urban Transition area. His work focuses in particular on the areas of municipal/regional sustainability (focus: energy and climate protection), environmental justice and the evaluation of social transformations. He has 12 years of experience working in this field in Germany, across Europe, and China.

Mr. Lawrence Iu

Lawrence Iu is the Climate Change & Partnerships Lead of HK2050isNow. His research and engagement projects focus on climate change modelling and carbon neutrality policy issues. Mr Iu previously worked in a multinational corporation and a higher institution, where he coordinated environmental sustainability and occupational health & safety projects across Asia Pacific and led emerging technology management, circular economy and green chemistry research. He was awarded two research grants for enhancing process hazard assessment. Mr Iu holds a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering, a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Bioproduct Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ms. Alice So

Alice has been dedicated to provide supports to Hong Kong start-ups for more than a decade. Before she joined Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited in 2011, she supported the design-related start-ups for years at the Hong Kong and Science Technology Parks. She has also worked for multinational companies in plastic resins, chemical and pharmaceutical businesses, with an extensive business background in regional markets which require a deep understanding of multicultural and multi-ethnic working practices. Currently as the Head of Entrepreneurship, Alice leads the Entrepreneurship Team to nurture talents and assist startups at different life stages to accelerate in the digital tech industry worldwide, through the Cyberport Creative Micro Fund and the Cyberport Incubation Programme with financial support and professional services. She has a Degree in Public and Social Administration and a Master in Engineering Business Management.

Dr. Olivier Petit

Dr. Olivier Petit is the Strategic Initiative Director for Asia Pacific at EGIS, a world-leading EGIS Corporation (with operations in 120 countries and 16,000 employees), that designs and operates intelligent infrastructure and buildings capable of responding to the climate emergency and helping to achieve more balanced, sustainable and resilient territorial development. Certified top employer in France and India, EGIS has recently made Hong Kong its Asia Pacific headquarters, as Asian countries are fast-growing in their infrastructure. EGIS offers diverse career prospects and values university graduates with multilingual skills and acute intercultural agility.

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