Yan"s report entitled "The E-city Development and the Practice of Shanghai's E-city Engineering Project" was delivered to a network engineering and informatization forum at the ongoing 2004 World Engineers' Convention in Shanghai.
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Speaking at a conference in Singapore yesterday, Fung said that the Hong Kong government's strategy was to use incentives and penalties to encourage residents to use more cost-effective service channels.
In 1949, when the Communists took over Mainland China, there was a flood of emigration to Hong Kong, which was then a British colony. To deal with this, the government introduced mandatory ID cards, made simply of cardboard.
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Committee members noted that the move was necessary despite thesignificant benefits brought by the program's first phase, such asbetter access to government services and customer satisfaction. The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer will lead the implementation of a number of priority initiatives under the next wave of e-government.