it feels like the HK gov is stuck in times, so many of their processes are so slow and dumb, nothing is digitized. When it takes one week for a visa transfer in SG, it takes 4-6 in HK. Their data is all over the place. I feel they are stuck in their Octopus card days, it was quite innovative back then, but then nothing happens since.
They don't realize they could save time and money if they pushed for innovation. It's hard to call yourself an innovation hub when the gov itself hasn't innovated at all.
they have a new data website they launched, it looks interesting, maybe they started looking at it
https://data.gov.hk/en/