NEWS FLASH || Shanzhai City Introduced Decentralized Technologies to Hong Kong NGOs at ITRC Forum 2018
ITRC Forum 2018 has been successfully held on 28 November, 2018. The forum, a premier event organised by Information Technology Resource Centre (ITRC) of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, enables non-government organisations and ICT solution providers to meet and share on latest technology trends and development.
Adopting the theme “Future Technologies”, ITRC invited 12 notable speakers to share their knowledge and experience on areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how they apply to NGOs. Dr. Tat Lam, Shanzhai City’s CEO and Co-founder at Impact Oxygen Foundation, delivered a speech on the topic of “Cases of Decentralized Technologies: Social Impact Bond, Community Currency and Consensus Impact Metrics” at this one-day forum.
With the advent of new technologies, things can be detected more quickly and analyzed in greater detail. However, the use of new technologies also poses security risks and raise unprecedented challenges. In such context, NGOs need to incorporate intelligent systems to engage and serve their clients, and to streamline their operations in a secure platform.
Dr. Tat Lam, in his speech about SZC’s featured decentralised blockchain technologies, indicated that in the near future NGOs may engage social impact bond, community currency and consensus impact metrics to achieve a better service delivery to the needy in our community.
Other topics discussed at the ITRC Forum 2018 included procurement digitisation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, future workplace digital transformation, etc.
