The Seminar
named “Making good use of Innovation & Technology Fund for Better Living”
was organized by SocTech Hong Kong under Information Technology Resource
Centre, HKCSS on 25th Aug 2017.
Mr. Vicent CK Tse (Assist. Project Manager, ITRC, HKCSS) was MC and introduced
the seminar agenda.
Then Mr.
Peter Kwok (Senior Manager, I TRC, HKCSS) introduced SocTech that aimed to
apply different technology into our society and community.
The
first speaker team members were Ms. Loretta Wong (Chief Executive Officer (Fund
for Better Live), ITB) and Ms. Lorraine Kam (Senior Executive Officer (Fund for
Better Live), ITB) and their topic named “Innovation & Technology Fund for
Better Living”. The objectives of that
funding were to subsidize and promote innovation & technology projects to
improve people’s daily living and making them more convenient, more comfortable
and safer. It needed to address the
needs of specific community groups such as elderly, disabled and youth.
IT
companies needed to collaborate with NGOs, Public Bodies, Professional Bodies
and Trade Associations to apply this funding.
There
were eight application requirements below.
1.
Able to benefit the public at large or specific groups, and in line with
government policies
2.
Innovative application of technologies
3.
Non-profit-making during funding period
4.
Roll out within 12 months
5.
Run for at least 2 consecutive years after roll-out (except for project
which is one-off in nature)
6.
Project deliverables can be in form of mobile app, product, tool,
service, software, etc.
7.
Primarily developed within Hong Kong
8.
Any intellectual property rights created will be vested with the
successful applicant and open for free under normal circumstances.
Project
themes included “Daily Living”, “Education”, “Environment”, “Health”, “Safety”,
“Transport” and others.
The
funding max is upto HK$5 million using ratio of 10% match 90%. The project expenditures included manpower,
equipment and other direct costs (e.g. delivery, publicity, etc.). The administrative overhead is less or equal
to 15%. Some items are non-fundable cost
such as Building facilities, Utilities, Transport, Entertainment expenses, Duty
visit and Staff training.
Procurement
procedure should be taken care as the following guideline from ICAC.
Finally, the evaluation criteria were briefed included benefits to public, innovation & technology content, feasibility and sustainability, financial issue, technical and management capability.
The
second speaker was Mr. Eric Tang (ITRC, HKCSS) and his topic named “From
Conceptualization to Implementation”. His
talk content included conceptualization, funding application and implementation.
Firstly,
he compared the Social Welfare Development Fund (SWDF) and Innovation &
Technology Fund for Better Living (FBL).
Then he briefed the ideas could be come from focus group and through understanding
of the technologies to implement it.
Finally,
Mr. Eric Tang briefed the application of FBL that target beneficiary analysis
should be performed such as assessment of number of target beneficiaries and
evaluation of the penetration rate. Moreover,
the applicant must appoint a Project coordinator who is responsible for
overseeing the implementation of the Project (e.g. monitoring the proper use of
the FBL grant).
The
third speaker was Mr. Leung (Social worker) and his topic named “Elder has
power to promote the development of information technology”. In the beginning, he asked us how old we thing
to be elder. Participants’ feedback were
from 60 to 70 years old. Our perception
to the elder was not right because they had many capabilities hadn’t been
discovered.
Then Mr.
Leung introduced their projects for elder participating to create Hong Kong word
style database. Many words in Hong Kong were
not found in the computer for 30 years long and no one to handle it. Many database were come from Taiwan but not
followed our Education Bureau guideline in 1986.
They
created 7000 characters and were waiting OUHK scholars review for
publication. Their database would be
free download for Webfont and for Android or iOS.
Lastly,
Mr. Leung’s partner demonstrated how to create / correct the Chinese word
character through the specific but open source program.
Mr.
Richard Chan (Managing Director, Hong Kong RFID) was the fourth speaker and his
presentation was “TeamCare Empowering 360o Caring”. He introduced
the project which partner with Mr. Albert Au, founder & CEO of Acesobee.
He told
us the brand “Acesobee” that “Aceso” means the Greek goddess of the healing
process and “bee” means team work. Their
TeamCare app was a health record sharing system which adopted by the hospitals
for monitoring the health history of the elderly.
The last
speaker was Dr. Jamie Chiu (Chinical Psychologist & Founder) and her
presentation topic was “Brightly Project”.
She briefed their Vision was “A world where depression does not steal
away bright futures” and Mission was “Using AI technology to change how
depression is detected and supported”.
Dr. Chiu
said that suicide was the leading cause of death for young people in Hong Kong
and more than 50% of youth report feeling “depressed” and “useless”. Therefore, mental health screening and management
dashboard for education institutes were needed. Through the machine learning algorithm, it
could transfer surveys to individual conversations for risk detection on behavioral
and psychological factors. She hoped
that AI Chabot for schools and NGOs to easily engage youth with support.
During
the seminar, I met my cousin (Mr. Chris Lai) and we had long time no see.
He is
the founder of “Goody Bag Hong Kong” and it is quite famous and innovative
service in Hong Kong.
Reference:
Information Technology Resource Centre,
HKCSS - http://itrc.hkcss.org.hk/
SocTech Hong Kong - https://www.soctech.hk/
The Innovation and Technology Fund for
Better Living (FBL) - http://www.itb.gov.hk/en/fbl/
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