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Hong Kong Smart City Blue Print - Visionary or Oh Dear

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    Hong Kong Smart City Blue Print - Visionary or Oh Dear

    https://www.smartcity.gov.hk/doc/Hon...eprint(EN).pdf

    A bunch of gizmos and gadgets cobbled together to form a 'blue print'. Nothing about open data or laws to facilitate technology. Just spend spend spend.

    Funny to see the proposal for traffic monitoring cameras to give live traffic status. Google have been doing this for 5 years with data pinged back from its cell phones. A simple change in the law to male the date public in real time would suffice. Or quick secure payments which have been around for 10+ years in other countries etc and again just needs a few new laws not new government systems. No doubt all these boondoggles will get funding as Legco is now powerless to stop it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    A bunch of gizmos and gadgets cobbled together to form a 'blue print'. Nothing about open data or laws to facilitate technology. Just spend spend spend.

    Funny to see the proposal for traffic monitoring cameras to give live traffic status. Google have been doing this for 5 years with data pinged back from its cell phones. A simple change in the law to male the date public in real time would suffice. Or quick secure payments which have been around for 10+ years in other countries etc and again just needs a few new laws not new government systems. No doubt all these boondoggles will get funding as Legco is now powerless to stop it.
    second that, not really a blueprint either IMHO, just a waste of electrons.
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