sin chung kai legislative councillor (it) 19 june 2008
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Sin Chung KaiSin Chung KaiLegislative Councillor (IT)Legislative Councillor (IT)
19 June 200819 June 2008
Introduction• What is a Flat World*?
(*Important Notice: The Earth is Spherical!)
– Globalization– Different regions are
interconnected– People from around the
world competes on the same big market
• Thomas L. Friedman– The World is Flat
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A Flat Earth illustration. Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), p. 163
Introduction
• What Flattens the World?
• Friedman’s 10 Forces1. Collapse of
Berlin Wall2. Netscape3. Workflow
Software4. Open Sourcing5. Outsourcing
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6. Offshoring7. Supply Chaining8. Insourcing9. In-forming10.“The Steroids”
• 8 of the 10 Forces• Information Technology (IT)• Made Possible by IT
IT for Business
• IT in Finance
Hong Kong Stock ExchangeHong Kong Stock Exchange– Computerized Trading System since 1986– Current 3rd Generation “Automatic Order
Matching and Execution System” (AMS/3) launched in 2000
e-Bankinge-Banking– Electronic Payment– Funds Transfer– Investment
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IT for Business
• Logistics / Supply Chain Management• Just a Warehouse?• Not anymore.• Automated and Managed with IT
– Supply Chain Optimization– Inventory Management
• Relevant Technology– RFID– Wireless LAN– Database Driven Software
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Automatic warehouse for small parts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Automatisches_Kleinteilelager.jpg
IT for Business• Offshoring / Outsourcing
IndiaIndia– English speaking– IT infrastructure– Engineering Talents
• Back-Office Processes– Call Centres– Transaction Processing
• Software Development– R&D
• Led by: IBM, Intel, Microsoft etc.
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Picture of an Indian woman wearing a phone headset. Time Magazine Cover, June 26, 2006.
IT for Business
• Is it just another form of Cheap Labour?NO!NO!
• IT enables seamless cooperation of talents across border
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Female convicts chained together by neck rings, working on a road in Dar es Salaam. Available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3b38289.
• In a Flat World• Talents from all
parts of the world compete on a “level playing field”
• Geographical constrains fade away
• Every corner of the world are being empowered
IT for Business
• In-forming
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• Internet Users gain access to information
• Volume of Use• Google
• Several hundred million queries per day
• At least 1.643 billion visitors annually (in 2008, survey by Compete.com)
• By allowing more access to information, learning opportunity is somewhat leveled, hence, flattening the world
IT for Society
• Disaster Relief / Management
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IT for Society• Disaster Relief / Management
ReliefRelief..AsiaAsia• Developed in the wake of the Myanmar
Cyclone and Sichun Earthquake Disaster in May 2008
• Coordinate effort from the Internet Community
• Deploy technologies for disaster relief– DUMBO (Digital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband
OLSR)– Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System– Relief.Asia Social Networking Platform
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IT for Society
ReliefRelief..AsiaAsia• DUMBO (Digital Ubiquitous Mobile
Broadband OLSR)– Mobile wireless network on an ad hoc basis.– 20 EeePC arrived Thailand, ready to dispatch to
Myanmar• Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System
– Free and Open Source Disaster Management System– Deployed into Sichuan on May 21, 2008
• Relief.Asia Social Networking Platform– Blogs, Latest News etc– Management System– Online Donation
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IT for Society
• Sichun Sichun EarthquakeEarthquake
• Utilize Internet platform– Donation– Memorial– SOS
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IT for Society
• Sichun Sichun EarthquaEarthquakeke
• 200 million QQ users contributed
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IT for Society
• Sichun EarthquakeSichun Earthquake
• Internet user helped find landing site for rescue helicopter
14http://flickr.com/photos/gahjr2000/115698542/
IT for Society
• Sichun EarthquakeSichun Earthquake
• Internet users: Let earthquake survivor be the Olympic flame lighter
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IT for Society
Assistive TechnologiesAssistive Technologies• Screen Reader (Text to Speech)
– E.g. Jaws• Speech Synthesizer
– E.g. DECtalk (used by Stephen Hawking)• Speech Recognition
– Hands-free Computing
• Makes the World more Accessible
IT Flattens the World for IT Flattens the World for ALL!ALL!
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IT for Politics• Barack Obama: Presidential Barack Obama: Presidential
Campaign on the InternetCampaign on the Internet
• “Change you can Believe in,” Barack Obama
• Change in Washington Politics?– Not sure yet.
• Change in the mode of Campaigning– Campaign on the Internet!Campaign on the Internet!
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IT for Politics
• Barack Obama: Presidential Barack Obama: Presidential Campaign on the InternetCampaign on the Internet
• Social Networking Sites– Facebook– MySpace– My.BarackObama.com
• Online Fundraising– Individual Contributors
• Viral Video– Fan video– Spread through video sharing websites
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IT for Politics• Barack Obama: Social
Networking Sites
FacebookFacebook• Groups
– Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)
– 564,005 members as of June 17
• Applications• Politician Page
– 993,950 supporters as of June 17
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IT for Politics• Barack Obama: Social
Networking Sites
My.BarackObama.comMy.BarackObama.com– Networking element on Official
Site• Event Building• Groups• Blogs• Fundraising
– Over 70,000 registered users• Influence
– HillaryClinton.com Action Center– McCainSpace
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IT for Politics• Barack Obama: Fundraising• By the end of April: Over $272 million1
• In First Quarter 2007– $25 million– Over 100,000 donors– $6.9 million was raised through the
Internet!!!
• By contrast, Candidates through traditional fundraising channels– Hillary Rodham Clinton: $221.7 million– John S. McCain: $98.6 million
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6.9/25 = 27.6% !
1. http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?_08+CAN+00
IT for Politics• Barack Obama: Viral Video
– First Video uploaded on June 13, 2007
– Youtube– ““I Got a Crush... on Obama”I Got a Crush... on Obama”
• Viewed 8,448,181 times by May 29, 2008
– Super Obama Girl• Viewed 4,476,443 times by May 29,
2008
• Fan Video for Fun• Obama’s response
– “It's just one more example of the fertile imagination of the Internet. More stuff like this will be popping up all the time.”
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IT for Politics• Behind the Obama Presidential Campaign
on the Internet…
• IT or not IT?– Majored in History and Literature at Harvard– Didn’t write code– But… Designed many of Facebook’s features
• The key is to utilize IT in innovative ways!23
• “Online Organizing Guru” for the Obama 2008 campaign
• Chris HughesChris Hughes• Co-founder &
Spokesperson for Facebook
Chicago Tribune photo by Phil Velasquez
I’m 24.
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
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Microsoft's official site: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx
Hi, I’m Bill Gates. I’m 23. I’ve just found Microsoft 3 years ago.
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
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I’m Steve Jobs, 22. I’ve just found Apple.
http://www.time.com/time/80days/760401.html
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
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http://pictures.nocrew.org/show.html?id=713
We are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, we were 22 when we work on our BackRub research project, which later became…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google1998.png
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
• Innovation = Young Leaders– Unbound by
Experience– Breakthroughs in
Understanding the World
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpgEinstein derived his mass-energy equivalence formula at age 26
I was 26 in my “Wonderful Year” of 1905.Published the five significant “Annus Mirabilis Papers”.
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
• What makes a Leader?– Innovation– Vision– Learn to Lead– Emotional Intelligence +
Practical Knowledge– Soft and Hard Power Skills– Appropriate Style depending
on Context
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http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/al-gore-the-situationist/
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
• What makes a Leader?• Learn to Lead
– Anyone can be a Leader– Leadership depends on
Nurture and Nature– Leadership exist at any level– Most people are both
Leaders and Followers• “Lead from the Middle”
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Winston Churchill as a young boy, aged 7, in Dublin, Ireland.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Churchill_1881_ZZZ_7555D.jpg
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
• What makes a Leader?• Emotional Intelligence +
Practical Knowledgefor– Reality Testing– Constant Information
Seeking– Adjusting to ChangeMore important than pure IQ
judgement
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US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rooseveltinwheelchair.jpg
IT for Young Leaders: Innovation
• What makes a Leader?• Soft and Hard Power Skills
– Soft Power Skills• Co-optive
– Hard Power Skills• Command
• Both…– Transformational– TransactionalObjectives and Styles are
useful
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Ronald Reagan and General Electric Theater, 1954-62.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ronald_Reagan_and_General_Electric_Theater_1954-62.jpg
IT for Young Leaders: Hong Kong
• Economist Intelligence Unit: e-Readiness Rankings 2008 (Selected)
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Rank
Country/Region
Overall Score
Rank 2007
Overall Score 2007
1 United States
8.95 2 8.85
2 (↑2)
Hong Kong
8.91(↑0.19)
4 8.72
3 Sweden 8.85 3 8.85
4 Australia 8.83 9 8.46
5 Denmark 8.83 1 8.88
6 Singapore
8.74 6 8.60
15 South Korea
8.34 16 8.08
18 Japan 8.08 18 8.01
19 Taiwan 8.05 17 8.05
http://www.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_name=ibm_ereadiness&page=noads&rf=0
IT for Young Leaders: Hong Kong
• Economist Intelligence Unit: e-Readiness Rankings 2008 (Selected)
• Hong Kong: Score Breakdown– Connectivity: 9.00– Business Environment: 8.64– Social and Cultural Environment: 7.47– Legal Environment: 9.80– Government Policy and Vision: 8.95– Consumer and Business Adoption: 9.50
• Social and Cultural Environment lacks Social and Cultural Environment lacks behind!!!behind!!!
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I’m the top of the region.
Top 3 of the region
IT for Young Leaders: Hong Kong
• Hong Kong– What We Have…
• Good Infrastructure• Well Trusted Legal & Business Environment• Geography
– Still a Gateway to Mainland China
– What We Haven’t…•A Social & Cultural Environment
– Innovation!!!– New Ideas!!!
– back to basis… – Its IDEAS that matters!!!Its IDEAS that matters!!!
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Kellet Island and the coast of Victoria City, Hong Kong.
Conclusion• In the Flat World…• IT is the Driving Force• Embrace IT
– Not just the Technical Skills
– But…– Creative Use of IT
• Hong Kong– Good Infrastructure and
Business Environment– Gateway to Mainland
Market– Be Innovative!
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"MAPPA MUNDI in JEAN MANSEL La Fleur des Histoires. Valenciennes, 1459-1463, manoscritto, penna, inchiostro e colori su pergamena, 30 X 22 cm (carta). Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS. 9231, fol. 281v. Mappa attribuita a Simom Marmion"
Conclusion
Be the Next Leader
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Person of the Year: You.Time Magazine Cover, December 25, 2006.
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