Hong Kong has transformed from a small fishing village with only a few thousand people into an international city with a population of more than seven million. This urbanization brought many opportunities, but it also created significant city management challenges.
To make Hong Kong more liveable, the government has promoted smart city development in recent years, hoping citizens can continue to enjoy a happy, healthy, and prosperous life in a rapidly changing environment.
Building Smart Hong Kong to Improve Quality of Life
In the 2022 Policy Address, Chief Executive John Lee repeatedly emphasized the importance of innovation and technology. Smart Hong Kong is one of the key application areas.
The government will formulate smart city strategies across multiple areas. For infrastructure, new buildings will be required to reserve space for mobile communication facilities to expand 5G networks. The Northern Metropolis will also be developed as an integrated area for quality living, emerging economy, and cultural leisure.
For government services, the government will push full digitalization after 2024 and aim to provide one-stop online government services. iAM Smart will be adopted more widely to provide citizens with one-stop digital services.
For transport, the government will conduct territory-wide travel surveys, promote pilot schemes such as autonomous vehicles, publish a transport strategy blueprint focused on reliability, safety, intelligence, and environmental efficiency, and continue smart mobility measures such as traffic data systems and smart highways.
For medical services, specialist clinics under the Hospital Authority with telehealth services will provide medication delivery, clinics will issue electronic sick leave certificates, and eHealth app registration will be further promoted. The government also plans to require more medical records to be uploaded by public and private healthcare institutions.
These measures show that the government places strong emphasis on data interoperability. The essence of a smart city is not only technology development or physical infrastructure. It also requires integration of systems and services across city stakeholders. With a database of sufficient scale, the government can discover valuable insights, such as busy traffic periods in different districts or health conditions across age groups, laying a foundation for future city management and resource planning.
Smart City Development Requires Multiple Factors
Smart cities are an international trend, but they require cooperation to succeed. Even with forward-looking policies and advanced hardware, Hong Kong may not become a leading smart city without broad participation.
To attract businesses, academic institutions, and citizens to participate, the government has introduced support measures to encourage society to transform toward smart operations and experience the convenience of intelligent systems.
The Technology Voucher Programme, launched in 2016, provides funding support for local enterprises and organizations to adopt technology services and solutions, improve productivity, and upgrade business processes.
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