Code for Hong Kong

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Sharing Economy

@vincent_lcy

Co-founder, Code4HK

Developer @ a local start-up

Drive Social Changes by Code

用程式改變香港

Private philanthropy to the developing world surpasses the monetary contributions of all governments COMBINED

Solution Revolution, by William & Paul

Technology?

software is eating the world

Marc Andreessen

//Tech shaping our smart cities//

Look in your pocket. You Already own a smart-city construction kit 

 

Smart Cities  by Anthony M. Townsend

Share the info & create values

#UmbrellaMovement

Image: InmediaHK

Market in Sharing Economy

Information Technology

 

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Collaborative Actions

breaking limitations

My 2cents on sharing economy

Values created for Good Causes

Rest is logistics

DIY

esp when big brothers malfunction

//Tech itself encourages sharing & easy scale up//

Open Source ecourages share

10million+ repos at github

1140B+ value/year (by Carlo Daffara) 

IT get everyone connected

Unconferences

//Tech promote understanding//

Facts

before rational discussion

Northeast map

新界東北地圖

http://northeast.code4.hk

Census Explorer

http://gazetteer.hk

Better Info?

Do something with it

http://71map.code4.hk

http://adoptahydrant.org/

//Code4HK itself is a sharing economy//

  • Maker Made
  • User use
  • Learner Learnt

 

  • Problems get solved

Civic Hacking

10+ Events & Hackathons

10+ Projects

2000+ IT Professionals Manhours Donated 

 

Hackathons

 

Hack + Marathon

//Tech makes dialogues cheap

& decisions better//

Tech as  

a platform

 a language

 

 

Cross-sector collaboration

Reach Consensus

Loomio

Pol.is/hk

the most significant impact of the spread of communication technologies is reallocating the concentration of power away from states and institutions and transfer it to individuals.

 

New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

Ingredients of a smarter sharing economy

  • Community & Culture of passionate technologists
  • Open Data
  • Well-informed & partcipating General Public

Better Information
Better Collaboration
Better Economy

Better Society

Join Us!

 

 

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