SCMP letters to be published Fall 2020 by Simon H Wang https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f Begin with the end in mind en-us 2020-10-01 15:44:26 UTC 2024-06-05 09:52:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Title of the letter simonwanghkbu https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/925597034 Each letter writing team please create a post in the padlet
Add your poster or a relevant picture as an attachment 

Outline your argument here
Claim:
Evidence:
Value principle:  

Discuss how the argument can be further strengthened ]]> 2020-11-16 03:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/925597034 Land use in HK team 1 19207786 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930266361 Claim: the CCH mechanism for reviewing vacant school sites should be scrutinized.
Evidence: we've noticed an inefficiency in the reviewing process and allocation of VSP new purposes. 1. 43 sites located on private lands can be utilized based on the landowner's personal perspective, so the reviewing of PlanD is actually useless; 2. 64 sites are still being idled after being reviewed; 3. 181 sites, about 77% of the total number of VSP, are assigned for GIC use which takes up the place for residential use.
Value principle: Due to the severely imbalanced land demand and supply in HK, the government should definitely not neglecting the issue of VSPs.
Efficiency of using land resources ]]> 2020-11-17 05:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930266361 Climate lawsuits 20503113 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930267971 Claim: Legal means should be considered to pressure the government and obtain climate justice.
Evidence: Hong Kong did not meet its target of reduction of greenhouse gases even with the Climate Action Plan 2030+. The government action is not sufficient. Some countries (Netherlands, Pakistan...) used climate lawsuits to get governmental actions.
Value Principles: Climate change is a threat that should not be neglected. Hong Kong should consider imitating other countries that were more efficient. ]]> 2020-11-17 05:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930267971 Land Use Team 2 18251145 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930276818 Claim: The LandsD needs to proactively promote the Vacant School Sites to eligible NGOs to increase the use rate of it.
Evidence: Among more than 900 vacant government sites reserved for further development, only 45 sites have been applied by 58 organizations, meaning that a large amount of premises are kept idle; many NGOs may not know about vacant school sites
Value Principle: Land resource should not be wasted. The government is responsible for allocating resources efficiently.

]]> 2020-11-17 05:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930276818 Land Use in HK Team 3 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930353204 Claim:The CCH mechanism should designate more land for residential use, and the current managers as Education Bureau should have plan of the VSPs and start implementation in a shorter time. 

Data: 
1. Only 11% of the 234 VSP are recommended for residential use in the CCH.
2. After the PlanD made the recommendation, Education Bureau spent long time making plan and implementation. It took about 8 years of the implementation of Confucian Sam Lok Chow Mud Wai School (118).
3. Tai Po Government Primary School (120) is currently vacant after it returned to PlanD in 2012.]]> 2020-11-17 06:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930353204 Mars Mission 20501943 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930356045 Claim: Costs being used for the Mars mission could be allocated in a more efficient and realistic way. 

Evidence: 
-each mission’s budget ranging anywhere from $200 million to  $2.5 billion
-the failure rate of the previous Mars mission is more than 50% 

Value principle: Environment and resources should be saved by reducing costs.  

]]> 2020-11-17 06:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/930356045 1823 letter 2 19251548 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/931642716 Claim:Status quo and future development direction of Artificial Intelligence in 1823                       
Evidence:
no second-order changes happened due to the introduction of Chatbots.
Public service delivery has not been radically changed
nor was there any mentioning of changes in the governance system, citizen engagement or reforms of the policy-making processes due to the implementation of the Chatbot.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/use-ai-to-make-cities-smarter/
https://www.governing.com/next/Government-Wants-Some-Straight-Talk-About-Chatbots.html
Value principle:1823 helped people to report problems to the government and get solutions, but the imperfection of knowledge management system and metadata database and the backwardness of chat system robot greatly hindered the spread of this app.
]]> 2020-11-17 13:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/931642716 E-Health Record Sharing System 18250920 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944154821 Claim:

The Food and Health Bureau should promote the system to encourage more healthcare professionals to enroll in the system

Evidence:
At the end of Octomber, there are 50,480 healthcare professional accounts in the system, while there are over 100,000 healthcare professionals in the end of 2019.

Value principle:
Medical care is extremely important to everyone. By connecting more healthcare professionals and patients through the system can our medical system be more effective.

]]> 2020-11-20 02:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944154821 Green Burial in HK 19251416 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944157019 Letter 1
Claim:The Food and Environment Hygiene should proactively promote green burials to the public.

Evidence:
shortage of columbarium: Eight of the nine public columbaria are nearly saturated, and no plan for the future had been done.
environment protection: Green burial is cost effective and can reduce toxic gases.
ageing problem: the government speculates that the average number of deaths will increase from around 45,000 in 2018 to 72,500 in 2037.
Value principle:
The FEH should find a more suitable, genial and convincing way to promote green burials in consideration of the traditional culture.
Letter 2
Claim: The FEHD should improve the service of  online memorial to make public engaged in this project.

Evidence:
Low page views and low frequency of use in the past 10 years.


Value principle:
Resources are limited in Hong Kong due to large population, so we need to use Internet as an effective tool to reduce the cost in reality. 

]]> 2020-11-20 02:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944157019 Promote used textbook in HK(primary school) 19250983 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944160302 Claim:HK government and the education bureau should pay attention to the situation and act now.
Evidence:
1.government support students in cash(50% or so) but the money eventually do not spend on used books
2.government do not have the exact data about the rate of recycling.
Value principle:
The money spent by the government should actually improve the problem as well as help saving the parents' money.]]> 2020-11-20 02:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944160302 Transitional Housing 19228287 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944161449 Claim: HK government let NGOs take up most of the job of building the transitional housing while the government downplays this part. In addition, the building process is not transparent. More modular housing should be built, and some related regulations can be revised

Evidence:
- average  year of queuing for public house
- number of existing transitional housing
- Human rights groups urged the government to take an more active role in building transitional housing
- convenience for people with special need

Value principle:  housing is basic need for human. Housing issue in Hong Kong is about fairness, ]]> 2020-11-20 02:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944161449 Legalization of Airbnb 19208421 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944165869 Claim: The government should review the law enforcement policy of Airbnb as the law enforcement practice now is ineffective and unfair 

Evidence:
1. The number of inspection in 2018 is 15252 but there are only 159 prosecutions actually, there are only about 1% of successful rate in catching the illegal case in Airbnb, showing that it is not effective for the law enforcement practice currently. 

2. The law enforcement practice will deceive the Airbnb users and both local or non-local may also be caught illegal. For the non-local Airbnb user, they may not know the law in Hong Kong very clear, they may easily to be caught under the sting operation. This shows the law enforcement practice are not fair.

Value principle: The money from the government are actually coming from the Hong Kong citizens, it should not to be wasted on something that is not effective at all. Also, justice is important in a modern society, the law should not be suppressing the people even the people is not born in Hong Kong. ]]> 2020-11-20 02:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944165869 Workplace of transgender employees 20234783 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944173039 Claim: The government should take measures to protect the transgender employees. That includes taking EOC's recommendation on public consultation, and the NGO's advice.

Evidence: 
1. There is no specific guidelines or policies to protect LGBT communities according to the reply from the civil service bureau.

2.   EOC has recommended the Government to consider conducting a public consultation on introducing anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status. It is still in pending progress.

3. According to the response from the association of world citizen Hong Kong China, they did not receive reply from the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Unit of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau when they were seeking for help while writing the publication.

Value principle:  
The government should take the leading role to protect human right of the LGBT+ communities, take actions and measures to provide a comfortable workplace for transgender employees are one of the very important steps.]]> 2020-11-20 02:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944173039 << replenish of his post on left hand side (1823 letter 2) 19250576 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944253700
https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/artificial_intelligence_for_citizen_services.pdf

Claim:
More advanced AI is a necessity for chatbots to understand and respond to all requests
Evidence:
the current chatbot sucked. still trying to handle simple enquiries from the public.
Value principle:
 
Claim:
governments also will have to think about implicit bias reflected in the historical data or feedback to fit individual user preferences
Evidence:
failed to identify specific users and provide personalized answers
Value principle:
Collecting and aggregating the right type of data is critical for success
user feedback is essential both from citizens and government employee users
 
Claim:
governments can also take advantages of the advances businesses and developers are making in AI
Evidence:
the government is lagging behind Vendors are doing f that in the commercial market
Value principle:
Build upon existing resources with implementations ought to be more feasible.

Claim:
governments will have to contend with developing chatbots capable of conversing in multiple languages
Evidence:
At present, the Chatbot provides service in traditional Chinese only.
Value principle:

]]> 2020-11-20 03:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944253700 Minibus 19250134 https://padlet.com/simonwanghkbu/gcap3056letters20f/wish/944259023 Claim: 
The data from minibuses is useful but need to be supplemented by other data from franchised buses.

Evidence:
The current situation is that the data is not mutually shared in a large scale among different bus companies and various departments. But if the data could be jointly shared, the efficency of minibus tracking procedures, customer serving system, etc. could be boosted.

Value Principle:
New technologies are supposed to be utilized to the minibus data sharing system.





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