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.
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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The Director of Immigration Lai Tung-kwok received the award, on behalf of the Hong Kong Immigration Department.
Lai said the Smart Identity Card System was a complicated system with state-of-the-art technology.