News & Articles
Keep up to date with news and postings from the CivicSight blog, including archival content from our previous incarnation as Open Data Hong Kong.
- Blog
- January 23, 2018
- API, FinTech, Monetary Authority
FinTech and Open Banking the topic of the day with recent moves by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority launching a consultation for “Open API Framework”.
- News
- January 9, 2018
- data, datagov, parking, transport
Parking data is a good example of a key area in Hong Kong that the opening up of should be be able to help alleviate major problem in the city, but despite promise of real-time parking vacancies data from the government this currently is not a reality. Here we discuss the issue and some potential ways to solve it.
- Events, Meets
- November 16, 2017
- FAIR data, open data, Waltraut Ritter
What is FAIR data? Come and find out at our meeting with Susanna Sansone from Oxford University who will explain the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable)
- Uncategorized
- May 9, 2017
- citizen science, environment, health, open data, open science
Hong Kong joins pioneering UN Backed, citizen led alliance against mosquito borne diseases harnessing the power citizens: Global Mosquito Alert. Generating real-time data and tools through UN electronic platform ‘Environment Live”.
- Make, News
- March 13, 2017
- accessinfo, hackathon, open data, Open Data Day, policy
Here we have a guest posting from Robert Porsch on our Open Data Day (ODD2017) hackathon teams look at refugee crime data in Hong Kong showcasing what you can do with AccessInfo data & statistical programming.
- Events, Make, News
- February 27, 2017
- charles mok, hackathon, make, meet, Open Data Day
Don't miss this years International Open Data Day event in Hong Kong, a hackathon and LegCo roundtable on the 4th March at CityU in Kowloon Tong.