How the cuts in #USA funding has affected work of civil society working on #HongKong. chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

Breaking: at 30-Jun-2025 a record 4,184 #HK prisoners were unconvicted and presumed innocent. That's a record 42.2% of the prison population, excluding immigration detainees. webb-site.com/dbpub/jail.asp

After China released its AI policy blueprint last month the Hong Kong Government also promises “AI+ development” through a new AI Efficacy Enhancement Team. See Hong Kong Free Press HKFP hongkongfp.com/2025/09/17/pol…

Can you think of interesting "Smart Economy" projects using data from data.gov.hk, CSDI and other government data sources in #HongKong? If so the deadline to enroll and submit a proposal to the HK Gov #OpenData Hackathon is 17 Nov 2025 events.hk-tag.org/about-smart-ec…

PyCon HK 2025 PyCon Hong Kong – Sailing Together: "Raise the Sail, Let Python Prevail" Tickets, Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite share.google/Cjw74WkOOjxnj1…

Despite still only having code rather than FOI law, Hong Kong (see under China data) does OK in this "Comparative Testing of Responses to Requests for Information" by the Centre for Law and Democracy law-democracy.org/launch-of-repo…

Though David will continue with a Substack, and all the database is available for download from here under a CC-BY license drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

The Hong Kong Government’s least downloaded mobile app in the past 5 years is called “Captain Gor Union” by the Correctional Services Department, with just 1,200 downloads (although it was launched this year). Below, the bottom 10: info.gov.hk/gia/general/20…

Views on health data sharing: comparing Hong Kong v London. Apps are making personalised health advice possible – but what do people think about their privacy risks? cambridge.org/core/blog/2025…

Online volunteers needed in the wake of the devastating floods that have struck Southern Thailand, the HOT project needs help building a comprehensive map of the affected area using on OpenStreetMap tasks.hotosm.org/projects/36636/

Data handily gathered from data.gov.hk here: data.gov.hk/en-data/datase…

The year end company stats from HK's Company Registry show 1,557,103 companies in Hong Kong, but only 5,229,202 document searches made in 2025. Perhaps because it is so time-consuming and costly to use the Registry search? A feature, not a bug, for secretive companies.

Deepest condolences to his family. RIP David

📅 Date: 13 February 2026 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 19:20 – 21:00 📍 Venue: City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong 👥 Coordinator: Alex Au 🧾 RSVP: meetup.com/pythonhk/event… 🎟 Capacity: 80 #Python #AI #Agents #LongTermMemory #KnowledgeGraph #GoogleADK #SystemsThinking

Open Platform Society and Open Source Hong Kong have a call for Proposals for Open Data Day 2026 Hong Kong discourse.opensource.hk/t/call-for-pro… #OpenDataDay

Call for Proposals - Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2026 (6 June 2026) from Open Source Hong Kong discourse.opensource.hk/t/call-for-pro…

Fascinating talk at #FOSSAsia from Roger Dingledine from Tor on the snowflake project producing ephemeral proxies to help censored people get online

Very cool talk from Chisomo Banzi at #FOSSASIA on Starlog open infrastructure for language preservation and learning. Based in Taiwan they are working with indigenous elders and have Shona tools assess the “health” of indigenous minority languages

#HongKong on the map for #ODD2026. How did your #OpenDataDay go? opendataday.org #OpenDataDay

It took a while but I got the last 10 years crash data from Transport Department and mapped it; you can explore the pedestrian casualties here, take a look at your street etc! 2025 data is provisional. transitjam.com/pedestrian-cas…