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IT in a Flat World For Hong Kong Young Leaders

• Sin Chung Kai
• Legislative Councillor (IT)
• 19 June 2008

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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

A Flat Earth illustration. Camille Flammarion,
L'Atmosphere Météorologie Populaire (Paris,
1888), p. 163
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Introduction

• What Flattens the World?
• Friedmans 10 Forces
• Collapse of Berlin Wall
• Netscape
• Workflow Software
• Open Sourcing
• Outsourcing

• Offshoring
• Supply Chaining
• Insourcing
• In-forming
• The Steroids

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• 8 of the 10 Forces
• Information Technology (IT)
• Made Possible by IT

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IT for Business

• IT in Finance
• Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Computerized Trading System since 1986
• Current 3rd Generation Automatic Order Matching
  and Execution System (AMS/3) launched in 2000
• e-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

Automatic warehouse for small parts.
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leinteilelager.jpg
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IT for Business

• Offshoring / Outsourcing
• India
• English speaking
• IT infrastructure
• Engineering Talents
• Back-Office Processes
• Call Centres
• Transaction Processing
• Software Development
• RD
• Led by IBM, Intel, Microsoft etc.

Picture of an Indian woman wearing a phone
headset. Time Magazine Cover, June 26, 2006.
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IT for Business

• Is it just another form of Cheap Labour?
• NO!
• IT enables seamless cooperation of talents across
  border

• 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

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.
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IT for Business

• In-forming

• 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

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IT for Society

• Disaster Relief / Management

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IT for Society

• Disaster Relief / Management
• Relief.Asia
• 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

• Relief.Asia
• 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 Earthquake
• Utilize Internet platform
• Donation
• Memorial
• SOS

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IT for Society

• Sichun Earthquake
• 200 million QQ users contributed

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IT for Society

• Sichun Earthquake
• Internet user helped find landing site for rescue
  helicopter

http//flickr.com/photos/gahjr2000/115698542/
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IT for Society

• Sichun Earthquake
• Internet users Let earthquake survivor be the
  Olympic flame lighter

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IT for Society

• Assistive 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 ALL!

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IT for Politics

• Barack Obama Presidential Campaign 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!

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IT for Politics

• Barack Obama Presidential Campaign 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
• Facebook
• 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.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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IT for Politics

• Barack Obama Viral Video
• First Video uploaded on June 13, 2007
• Youtube
• 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
• Obamas 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
• Didnt write code
• But Designed many of Facebooks features
• The key is to utilize IT in innovative ways!

• Online Organizing Guru for the Obama 2008
  campaign
• Chris Hughes
• Co-founder Spokesperson for Facebook

Im 24.
Chicago Tribune photo by Phil Velasquez
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IT for Young Leaders Innovation
Hi, Im Bill Gates. Im 23. Ive just found
Microsoft 3 years ago.
Microsoft's official site http//www.microsoft.co
m/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx
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IT for Young Leaders Innovation
Im Steve Jobs, 22. Ive just found Apple.
http//www.time.com/time/80days/760401.html
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IT for Young Leaders Innovation
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/ImageGoogle1998.png
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IT for Young Leaders Innovation

• Innovation Young Leaders
• Unbound by Experience
• Breakthroughs in Understanding the World

I was 26 in my Wonderful Year of
1905. Published the five significant Annus
Mirabilis Papers.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageAlbert_Einstein
_Head.jpg Einstein derived his mass-energy
equivalence formula at age 26
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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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-gore-the-situationist/
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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

Winston Churchill as a young boy, aged 7, in
Dublin, Ireland. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag
eChurchill_1881_ZZZ_7555D.jpg
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IT for Young Leaders Innovation

• What makes a Leader?
• Emotional Intelligence Practical Knowledge
• for
• Reality Testing
• Constant Information Seeking
• Adjusting to Change
• More important than pure IQ judgement

US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in a
wheelchair. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageRoo
seveltinwheelchair.jpg
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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
• Transactional
• Objectives and Styles are useful

Ronald Reagan and General Electric Theater,
1954-62. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageRonald
_Reagan_and_General_Electric_Theater_1954-62.jpg
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IT for Young Leaders Hong Kong

• Economist Intelligence Unit e-Readiness Rankings
  2008 (Selected)

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_nameibm_ere
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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 behind!!!

Im the top of the region.
Top 3 of the region
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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 Havent
• A Social Cultural Environment
• Innovation!!!
• New Ideas!!!
• back to basis
• Its IDEAS that matters!!!

Kellet Island and the coast of Victoria City,
Hong Kong.
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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!

"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"
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Conclusion

• Be the Next Leader

Person of the Year You. Time Magazine Cover,
December 25, 2006.
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Thank You!

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