COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic for our generation. Open Technology can help and we are supporting a number of initiatives worldwide. Open COVID Pledge – Removing Obstacles to Sharing IP in the Fight Against COVID-19. This grants the public free, temporary
Sponsoring Open Source Software Project – badgeprint
Complementary to organising Open Technology event, HKCOTA would like to sponsor local Open Source projects that are beneficial to the community. badgeprint is a project the reduce the barrier to organising different conferences developed with the support from Open Source
ICT Award 2017 Free Hong Kong Fonts
“Free Hong Kong Fonts” is a collaborative project between H.K.S.K.H. Lady MacLehose Centre Dr. Lam Chik Suen District Elderly Community Centre and HKCOTA. The first set of Chinese font, “Free Hong Kong Kai”, was created to match the research from
FOSSASIA 2017, Singapore
HKCOTA was invited to the FOSSASIA 2017 on 17-19 March 2017 to present on the developments of Open Technology in Hong Kong and set up an exhibition of the Open Technology devices and events in Hong Kong.
PyCon Hong Kong 2016
From FinTech, Big Data / Open Data, IoT and Web & Cloud, Python becomes an essential & open source programming language and tool to develop related applications. The 2nd PyCon Hong Kong was held in Cyberport on 29-30 Oct 2016,
COSCUP 2016, Taiwan
Members of Open Source Hong Kong and HKCOTA set up an exhibition at COSCUP 2016 to promote conferences in Hong Kong.
Arduino and 3D Printer Assembly Course
The Hong Kong education bureau aggressively promotes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and a number of developed countries are already one step ahead by adding one more element – Arts – to become STEAM education.
Hong Kong Open Source Conference (HKOSCon) 2016
Together with Open Source Hong Kong, we co-organised the 4th Hong Kong Open Source Conference and extended it from 2 days to 3, Friday to Sunday at Cyberport. The four themes are Internet of Things (IoT), Data, Cloud and DevOps.
IT Fest 2016
The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, in collaboration with the local information and communications technology (ICT) industry, staged the International IT Fest 2016. HKCOTA was honoured to held one of the events within the IT Fest – Workshop