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891: 436:, despite the form being a source of disagreement within the pro-democratic camp. Wong said he did not want to define himself in terms of any specific political faction, as he wanted to represent the broad range of political opinions within the IT industry. The 2020 general election was eventually postponed by the Hong Kong government, ostensibly due to the pandemic, and eventually replaced by the revamped 1047: 940: 526: 305:
use and about arrestees at protests. On the other hand, he also campaigned against the introduction of smart lamp-posts that have the hardware capability to record pedestrians' faces. Wong opined that, even if the Hong Kong government promises not to use facial recognition technology on the lamp-post
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Wong advocates that public bodies not only need to make content available to the general public, but also make them available in machine-readable formats. He criticized the complacency of civil servants who think they have complied with open data regulations but only post scan images of documents. He
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and responded to a question about vandalism of smart lamp-posts by protesters, saying that the general public was skeptical about the true purposes of the lamp-posts. He opined that technology innovation depends on trust, thus technology policy would be meaningless unless the government attempted to
365:'s (CHP) practice of withholding data about new Covid-19 cases from their website for many hours after their daily press conference, which forced data reusers to watch CHP's press conferences in order to obtain the latest data. Nevertheless, Wong commended the CHP for providing an 458:" functional constituency whose franchise was limited to representatives of about 100 industry groups vetted by the government. Wong declined to run in the revamped elections, citing the restriction of voter franchise, and accordingly retired as an Election Committee member. 451:, but Wong was not arrested. The pro-democracy primaries did not include the Information Technology constituency in which Wong sought election to LegCo. In June, Wong announced that g0vhk was to be disbanded due to changes in the political climate. 338:, citing the difficulty for the general public to obtain data about council budgets, and even where data were available often only scans of paper documents would be provided, making it difficult for citizens to monitor their council's performance. 669: 431:
Commentators generally classify Wong as a moderate democrat. Wong and several other pro-democratic candidates for the functional constituencies signed the "confirmation form" pledging allegiance to the
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On 19 July, Wong Ho Wa declared his candidacy for the Information Technology constituency in the 2020 general election. In his manifesto, he said that he had been a longstanding supporter of
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for its coronavirus case data and that the Hong Kong government's open data practices had improved significantly in the late 2010s, even though Hong Kong still fell short of the
297:. He criticized the Hong Kong public sector for using privacy concerns as an excuse to withhold data, exemplifying this issue with the abundance of rumours that stemmed from the 361:. Wong Ho Wa said that the hardest part of maintaining the dashboard was finding committed volunteers to fact-check reports of unscrupulous mask merchants. Wong criticized the 448: 357:
market prices. The dashboard attracted 400,000 page views per day during the peak of the pandemic and was maintained by a team of some 20 volunteers assisted by automatic
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of incumbent pro-democratic legislators, but in the process decided that he should retire from LegCo and endorse a younger candidate as his "Plan A" instead.
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as a member of the IT Vision slate, part of the Democracy 300+ caucus to increase the pro-democratic camp's influence in the
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footage, such footage would be a target of cyberattacks by malicious actors with access to facial recognition. During the
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threatened internet freedom in Hong Kong, which was the lifeline of Hong Kong's IT industry, and that "the
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The Information Technology functional constituency was abolished in the 2021 elections and replaced by a "
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is now at our doorstep". He focused his campaign on using IT expertise to advocate for the
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dashboard to collate information about confirmed cases, disease transmission hotspots, and
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to codify the requirements for public bodies to disclose information, because the existing
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In 2016, Wong founded g0vhk on the model of g0v Taiwan, a technology advocacy group for
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mass arrests of participants of the pro-democracy legislative election primaries
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In January 2021, police raided Wong's home and office in Hong Kong amidst the
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colleagues Brian Leung and Nandi Wong saw that public information about the
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and began his professional career in software engineering. He worked in
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in 2013-14. He relocated back to Hong Kong around the time of the
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Wong believes in an approach to open data that balances the
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Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021
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Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kap Yan Directors' College
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2021 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections
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activist. He led the open government data community
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"檔案法 民間 VS 政府資訊戰". 245: 27:Hong Kong data scientist and activist 964: 868: 664: 662: 660: 571: 569: 553: 551: 549: 547: 533:(in Traditional Chinese). 2020-07-19 521: 519: 403:possible widespread disqualification 301:'s reluctance to publish data about 1020: 994: 806: 752:"藥房一周狂加價三成 網站揭炒罩黑店 民間團隊:政府疫情數據不足". 714: 557: 438:2021 Hong Kong legislative election 181:2020 Hong Kong legislative election 177:Information Technology constituency 24: 985: 930: 264:election to the Election Committee 25: 1157: 1093: 657: 566: 544: 516: 504:Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics 480:Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics 384: 209:Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics 205:Saint Francis of Assisi's College 1023:"國安法|無參加初選民主派暫「倖免」 IT界黃浩華遭警上屋搜查" 997:"立法會選舉|7功能組別個人票重倉 泛民戰意不再 料失專業陣地" 717:"【民間記者會】林鄭稱部分訴求不符法治 發言人斥不提法治合理性" 649:"【選委選舉】資訊科技界30席全由泛民取得,包括單仲偕等人". 341:In January 2020, Wong Ho Wa and 262:. Later that year, Wong ran for 1064: 1040: 1014: 958: 909: 884: 862: 847: 826: 800: 775: 760: 745: 730: 708: 683: 414:Hong Kong national security law 113: 917:"莫乃光不連任:搵Plan B時發現佢地做Plan A仲好" 873:(in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 香港01 719:(in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 香港01 642: 625: 600: 492: 468: 347:Covid-19 pandemic in Hong Kong 324:2019 Hong Kong local elections 272:multiple non-transferable vote 138: 92: 62: 48: 13: 1: 1126:Hong Kong democracy activists 836:(in Chinese). 眾新聞. 2020-05-02 461: 399:Hong Kong Legislative Council 326:, Wong led the g0vhk project 284:Code on Access to Information 186: 167:from 2016 to 2021. He was an 965:Shum, Michael (2020-07-20). 941:"立法會選舉|黃浩華宣布參選資訊科技界 稱會簽署確認書" 809:"【武漢肺炎】 民間製自救資訊網站 開發者亦為口罩惆悵" 363:Centre for Health Protection 213:500,000-strong demonstration 7: 632:"【選委戰果】業界大團結!民主派全取IT界30席". 217:National Security Bill 2003 10: 1162: 943:(in Traditional Chinese). 894:(in Traditional Chinese). 312:Citizen's Press Conference 236:Umbrella Movement protests 871:"香港開放數據發展落後 協會籲借鑑上海設公眾平台" 456:Technology and Innovation 371:Open Knowledge Foundation 193:North District, Hong Kong 124: 106: 99: 85: 78: 73: 69: 55: 41: 37: 32: 1029:(in Chinese (Hong Kong)) 1003:(in Chinese (Hong Kong)) 972:The Standard (Hong Kong) 815:(in Chinese (Hong Kong)) 614:(in Traditional Chinese) 171:member representing the 43:Traditional Chinese 995:林嘉成, 羅家晴 (2021-10-30). 767:"招標公告公屋輪候數據未開放 業界促改善". 737:"民間記招斥未提5訴求 批強推置業斷錯症". 418:Great Firewall of China 395:functional constituency 308:2019 Hong Kong protests 278:supports legislating a 57:Simplified Chinese 1072:"宣布不參選立會選舉 黃浩華:終歸接棒失敗" 500:"Results of HKOI 2006" 476:"Results of HKOI 2004" 422:freedom of information 299:Hong Kong Police Force 286:lacks enforceability. 238:and began taking part 173:information technology 919:. 香港獨立媒體網. 2020-07-16 412:. He stated that the 260:2016 general election 1076:www.bastillepost.com 670:"未來城市:政府開放數據 公眾更知情?" 252:open government data 224:computer engineering 199:estate. 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Index

Ho Wa Wong
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Chinese
Jyutping
data scientist
pro-democracy
g0vhk
Election Committee
information technology
Information Technology constituency
2020 Hong Kong legislative election
North District, Hong Kong
public housing
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kap Yan Directors' College
Saint Francis of Assisi's College
Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics
500,000-strong demonstration
National Security Bill 2003
computer engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Beijing
Umbrella Movement protests
internet freedom
open government data
incumbent Hong Kong legislative councillors

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