{"id":1209,"date":"2016-10-06T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opendatahk.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:25:13","slug":"policy-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civicsight.org\/zh-hant\/policy-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy lessons learned from real smart cities such as Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dumb Versus Smart Cities<\/strong>
\n\"\"It seemed appropriate in the same week that Hong Kong was hosting a smart city summit<\/a> to host a meetup getting valuable insight into how a true smart city \u2013 Taipei \u2013 works. Taipei Mayoral Advisor TH Schee was in town and gave us a \u201cfireside chat\u201d insight into the secrets of Taiwan\u2019s success here, and inspire us with ideas on how to set up an open data policy for Hong Kong. Despite styling itself as Asia\u2019s World City, and \u201csmart city\u201d being the buzzword in Government circles that everybody is targeting to get funding for, Hong Kong has a long way to prove itself in this area. A smart city is an urban development vision to integrate multiple data sources to manage a city\u2019s asset . Without open data to drive them, smart cities are doomed to failure, and Hong Kong\u2019s poor digital policies means it will continue to be overtaken by its neighbours in innovation and technology. This means it is particularly timely and topical to ask policy lessons we can learn from our most successful neighbour in this field, Taiwan.
\nHong Kong has dropped out of the top 10 of the WIPO global innovation index<\/a> in recent years, and is currently ranked 37th<\/sup><\/a> in the Open Knowledge Open Data Index<\/a>. And due to a misreading of the HK Government data licensing policy (which are not open or interoperable by any definition) without this overly generous scoring would mean we would likely rank 20-30 places lower. Contrast this with Taiwan, which in the last Index overtook the UK to be the highest ranked place in the world for Open Data. From the outside it seems a data-driven utopia, with a new \u201cMinister for Data\u201d<\/a> moving from g0v.tw citizen-run open data groups such as ours to now being in the heart of Government.
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