Tag archive: Hong Kong

Published in Wong siu-lun and T.Maruya, Hong Kong Economy and Society: Challenges in the New Era, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1998 (pp. 39-60).

Results of 1994, 1996, and 1998 TRP surveys on home computers and networking in Hong Kong.

For Hong Kong, an island-economy dependent upon its competitiveness as a world financial and trading centre, and as an entrepot to China, the challenge of information technologies is particularly intriguing.

Article published in New Technology Quarterly, Q4, 1997.

A revised and updated version of a study undertaken August-October 1997 on behalf of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation (HKCPEC).

Hong Kong has become in recent years an important regional information and telecommunications hub.

Analysis of survey results on technology transfers taking place in Hong Kong’s manufacturing of telecommunications components and equipment sector.

Paper presenting survey results on the diffusion of computers in homes, as well as on their use for communications beyond the home.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 30 September 1996.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 27 May 1996.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 25 March 1996.

The issue of interactivity is becoming clouded by advances in technologies and the growth of hybrid systems.

Published in J.Cheng and S.H.Lo, From Colony to SAR: Hong Kong’s Challenge Ahead, Chinese University Press, 1995.

The ending of the Hong Kong Telephone Company’s (HKTC) monopoly on the provision of the domestic public switched telephone network (PSTN) marks a turning point in the history of Hong Kong’s telecommunications. From 1st July four new Fixed Telecommunications Network Services (FTNS) licences came into effect, issued to HKTC, Wharf Holding’s New T&T (Hong Kong) Ltd, Hutchison Communications Ltd and New World Telephone Ltd.

Published in Cheung Y.L and M.H.Sze (eds.), The Chinese University Press, 1995.

Published in Handbook of New Media: Sage Publications, 2002. Lievrouw, L. and S. Livingstone eds., 2002.

Paper delivered at the Business & Technology Exchange Forum on Telecommunications, Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre, Corporation Tech Centre, Kowloon 14th-15th September 1995.

Paper presented at the IEEE PCS Symposium, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 7th June 1995.

Paper presented at the Information Services and Technologies in China and Hong Kong conference, The Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, 24th May 1995.

Paper presented at the Special Libraries Association conference, 'Southeast Asia: The Information Age', Washington D.C., USA, 2nd-3rd November, 1995.