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The 3rd Digital Lifestyle Seminar held at the 3rd International Conference

on Digital City in Shenzhen

Building on the advocacy efforts for Digital Lifestyle development in Hong Kong, the 3^rd Digital Lifestyle seminar, “Digital Community and Digital Lifestyle” was held at the 3^rd International Conference on Digital City in Shenzhen on 22 September 2007. iProA was invited by the organizers of the Conference, the Ministry of Construction of the P.R.C. and Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government to co-organize seminar in order to facilitate the exchange of dialogues between stakeholders from Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Our President Dr. Winnie Tang, as a member of the Conference Organizing Committee, had contributed advice along the development of the program and nominated esteem speakers to shed light on the conference theme as well. Mr. Earl Mardle, Chair of Jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award, and Prof. Lorraine Justice, Director of School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, were invited by iProA to deliver keynotes at the Global Summit on Digital City Development, which was the major session of the Conference and senior officials of the Shenzhen municipal government and respectable experts of the Mainland were also invited as keynote speakers.

At the 3^rd Digital Lifestyle seminar, Dr. Winnie Tang shared her vision and her view about the vast opportunities in the collaboration between Hong Kong and the Mainland to secure a leading position in Digital Lifestyle innovations in the global arena. Mr. Gerund Cheung, Co-Chairman of our Special Interest Group in Digital Content and New Media, and Mr. Dick Lai, Chairman of our Special Interest Group in e-Transportation, also delivered presentations at the Conference about the media industry and transportation respectively. Our participation in this Conference will effectively promote the opportunities for collaboration between Hong Kong and Mainland China in the roadmap of digital Lifestyle development

The seminar was well attended by 168 participants who were mainly local industry players and researchers from universities and state-funded research centres, with some from the government bureaus as well. It successfully provided a platform for stakeholders from Hong Kong and Mainland to showcase the respective development of Digital Lifestyle on both sides of the border and the network of relationships built on this meaningful exchange will be highly beneficial to the future collaborations between Hong Kong and the Pan Pearl-River Delta Region in Digital Lifestyle development.


	(From left) Keynote Speakers Mr. Earl Mardle, Prof. Lorraine Justice, Dr Winnie Tang at the Global Summit on Digital City Development

	Dr. Winnie Tang shared her vision on Digital Lifestyle Development at the seminar on “Digital Community and Digital Lifestyle”

	Mr. Gerund Cheung shared his view about the development of New Media as a breakthrough in our lifestyle.

	Dr. Winnie Tang had a meaningful experience about Digital Lifestyle Development in Shenzhen at the Exposition of the Conference.

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