Wikimania 2013 bids/Hong Kong
- Summary
- City proposed: Hong Kong
- Proposed dates: Friday 16 - Sunday 18 August 2013 (main conference); 13-14 August (hacking days)
- Venue: TBC
- Planned attendance: 700
- Contact persons: Tango Chan (User:Tsugiko), Jeromy-Yu Chan (User:Yuyu)
Introduction
Our city
- On Wikipedia: English, 中文, 粵語, 日本語, Français, 한국어, Deutsch, Tiếng Việt, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, ไทย, Português, اردو, العربية
Hong Kong (Chinese character:香港), often referred as HK or HKG, is a de-facto city-state and one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) located in Southern China. It locates in the southern coast of the mainland China, and standing on the eastern mouth of the Pearl River Delta estuary, surrounded with the South China Sea in it's southern water and accessible towards the Pacific Ocean. With a land mass covering an area of 1104 square kilometers, Hong Kong houses a population of seven million, which makes it regarded as one of the most densely populated city in the world.
During the colonial era, the territory espoused minimum government intervention from the British authorities and sheltered immigrants from different parts of the world, which resulted culture of Hong Kong, often described as "East meets West", with many of Chinese traditions well preserved, and different religions & ethnic groups coexist peacefully . Similar positive non-interventionism in economic policy, led Hong Kong to a status as one of the world's leading international financial centres, as well as a hub for regional transport and a famous tourism destination.
Where East meets West
Originally a fishing village on the edge of the Chinese Empire, the territory was changed forever when it becomes as an crown colony of the British Empire as the results of the First Opium War. The stability, security, and predictability of British law and government enabled Hong Kong to flourish as a centre for international trade, which attracted people from all over come and stay in Hong Kong, and brought in their own culture, religion and cuisines.
About 95% of the people of Hong Kong are of Chinese descent, the remaining 5% of the population is composed of non-ethnic Chinese which includes South Asian population of Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese, Vietnamese and also Europeans (mostly British), Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and Koreans who are mostly working in the city's commercial and financial sector. In 2008, there were an estimate of 252,500 foreign domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines working in Hong Kong.
The main religions in the territory are Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Christian with a nearly equally divided between Catholics and Protestants. There are also Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Bahá'í communities, coexists with each other peacefully. Minimum government intervention from the British authorities to the Chinese communities, also led to well-preserved Chinese tradition custom, in both indigenous residents in the New Territories, and immigrants from different parts of China in the down town.
Regional Hub
Logistics and trading is always bounded tightly together with the history of modern Hong Kong since from the origin, or the desired aim of setting up colonial Hong Kong, it was aimed as a trading port between the British Empire with the rest of oriental Asian countries, primarily the Mainland China which were under the rule of Qing Dynasty during 19th century. The birth of Hong Kong were virtually a by-product under trading affairs and since then the city is survived, influenced and expanded inevitabily bonded together with logistic charatertistics.
Not long after the Second World War ends, Hong Kong were benefited from a relative unstability of polities in other country, as well as the rule of communist governance on Mainland China resulting the status of Hong Kong as a trading port becomes more vital on supplying with southern region of China. Lying between the Mainland China and Taiwan, for decades of times Hong Kong has its unique character on being a bridge between two particular sovereignty of the Chinese. No matter for the Mainland or Taiwanese, Hong Kong was a window on interaction between Chinese and westerners at once of the time.
In 1970s whereas Hong Kong were experiencing a beginning of it's economical triumph by its industrial success, the investment on both of the port and the airport were significant. The first phase of Kwai Tsing Container Terminals were completed in 1970s and extensions were continued since then. While the newest phase of the Container Terminal 9 were completed in 2005, this reflects even in today Hong Kong are still possesses as an logistics hub within the Asia-Pacific region. Simliar as the airport, despite the urban sprawl across the New Kowloon region such as today's Kwun Tong and Kowloon City makes a large limitation on airport expansion, the Kai Tak Airport experienced a large extension construction allowing the largest jetliner at the time to be capable on serving Hong Kong.
Abbreviated as a part of the Rose Garden Project, the Airport Core Programme involves on a construction of today's Hong Kong International Airport and it's associated transport and infrastructural network were announced in 1989. Regarded as one of the architectural magnificent in the 20th century and lasted for 8 years of construction in total, the current airport located in Chek Lap Kok, Lantau were completed in 6 July 1998.
Sightseeing
Food
Safety
Since the recent several decade, Hong Kong is gaining a positive reputation continuously as being one of the safest city among most of the metropolis with million-counted population over the world. It's achieved not only with a good neural factors whereas natural disasters such as earthquakes aren't presenting as a serious threat, but more importantly by the effort and efficiency on the civil security services. The Hong Kong Police Force is the world's second, and Asia's first, police agency to operate with a modern policing system. With a prolonged history and management, today it's one of the most efficient and clean policing force over the world and making Hong Kong has one of the lowest common crime rate among lots of city with such population size over the world.
Emergency aid and rescue service in Hong Kong also maintains as a world class standard with a service agreement on which ambulance received for a emergency call will be arrives in scene in 8 minutes. The Fire Service of Hong Kong is also positively appreciated with it's highly efficient and qualitative performances in responding with accidents and disasters.
Consider with numberous million-city which was critised with safety and whereas moving around may already be in a position of likely dangerous or troubles occur, Hong Kong is a city where safety is considered as one of the most important factor and living safe is a well-guaranteed factor and the civil security services are trust-able. In a case if safety issues or threats do occurs, police stations, and even police officers in patrol on the streets, may be easily found and useful assistance is more than usually may be provided. Emergency responses are also quickly and emergency services reach on scene within a timescale of few minutes.
Our community
Hong Kong has one of the strongest Wikimedian communities in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2006, we organized the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006, the first ever regional Wikimedia conference. Wikimedia Hong Kong, the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, was founded in 2007, and was among the earliest Wikimedia local chapters to receive charity status.
The first Wikipedian meetup in Hong Kong was held in 2005. Since then, Wikimedians in Hong Kong have been meeting regularly. By the end of 2011, we have organized a total of 60 meet-ups, more than anywhere else in the world.
Among the Wikimedian community, Hong Kong is best known for its youthful Wikimedians. According to Jimmy Wales during his visit to Hong Kong in 2006, Hong Kong has the "youngest Wikimedian community" in the whole world in terms of participants' age.
Our team
| Name | Areas of responsibility | Experience |
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| Tango Chan (User:Tsugiko) | Bid Coordinator, Finance, Sponsors | Treasurer of the Hong Kong Chapter |
| Jeromy-Yu Chan (User:Yuyu) | Media & Program | Wikipedian since 2004, en, yue, zh, fr-2, de-1.5, Ex-President of Hong Kong Chapter Chinese Wikimedia Conference: Organizer 2006, Wikimania:Organizer 2007, Presenter 2009 & 2011, Attendee 2010 |
| Rover Wong (User:SusanLai) | Program, Local Community | President of Hong Kong Chapter |
| Vincent Tsui (User:Cehk) | Logisitics | Secretary of Hong Kong Chapter, Organizer Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006 |
| Alan Lai (User:28481k) | Media & Program | |
| Deryck Chan (User:Deryck Chan) | Program & Int'l Coordination | Admin Assistant of Hong Kong Chapter, Organizer Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006, Attendee Wikimania 2010, Presenter Wikimania 2011 |
| Samuel Chan (User:CX257) | Media | Admin Assistant of Hong Kong Chapter |
| Raymond Hui (User:Siuhyd) | General Help | Admin Assistant of Hong Kong Chapter |
If you are in the area and interested in help, please e-mail us at wikimania <at> wikimedia <dot> hk .
Conference
Conference venue
- brief description of venue (room sizes, number of rooms etc.)
- Main hall:
- Seminar rooms:
- Lounge facilities:
- Other rooms (organisation, staff, speakers, interviews/press, storage):
- Socializing areas (Garden, lounge etc.), their capacity and the hours at which they are opened/closed:
- Contacts with conference venue (emails, price quotes etc.)
- Technical facilities
- Existing technical installations
- (on site Audio-visual...)
- Wireless Network implementation
- Existing technical installations
- (existing? to be built? easiness of implementation?)
Party opportunities
Wikimania traditionally hosts two parties, one for attendees (capacity of 250-350) and one for sponsors and VIPs (capacity 40-60).
- Attendees party(ies) propositions
- (___location, how to get there, what's cool and relaxed about it)
- Sponsor party(ies) proposition
- (___location, how to get there, what's chic and high profile about it)
Logistics
Getting to Hong Kong
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Air travel: Hong Kong International Airport is a leading air passenger gateway and logistics hub in Asia. Located on the island of Chek Lap Kok, 34 km/21 miles from downtown, HKG airport has scheduled non-stop flights operated to more than 150 cities. Regarded as a focus city or major transfer hub by major airlines, the two-terminal airport is where more 85 airlines operate at and it is the primary hub of Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Air Hong Kong, Hong Kong Airlines, and Hong Kong Express. In 2010, the airport was named the World’s Best Airport in the annual passenger survey by Skytrax for the eighth time since 2001. The home airlines - Cathay Pacific and Dragonair, were also granted as the Best Airline of Year 2003, 2005 and 2009 and the Best Airline of Greater China region by Skytrax respectively. The airport itself operates in 24 hours, 7 days a week.
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Hong Kong International Airport is accessible with the MTR Airport Express train service, and its service may reach towards both Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong Station is the termini of the route and extensive network of local bus services may be interchanged from every stations. There are also a extensive Airport buses network served by both Citybus and Long Win Bus. These lines were represented as a A- or E-prefix in front of their bus routes, and the bus network may reach to most urban areas covering Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and most towns in New Territories.
Rail: Inter-city train services crossing the Hong Kong-China boundary are known as Intercity Through Trains. Currently, Hung Hom Station (Kowloon/Jiulong) is the only station in Hong Kong where passenger can catch these trains. Passengers have to go through immigration and custom inspections before boarding. There are currently three through train routes:
- Between Hong Kong and Beijing
- Between Hong Kong and Shanghai
- Between Hong Kong and Guangzhou
However, the East Rail Line, one of the metro lines inside the Hong Kong's Metro network (MTR) also connects to two of the boundary control point - Lok Ma Chau and Lo Wu. Both of the station provides a accessibility towards Shenzhen, and interchangeable with the Shenzhen Metro on the opposite of border on Chinese side. A journey from the border towards Hung Hom Station cost approximately 40 minutes.
Ferry and Marine: Hong Kong contains two main ferry terminal which serves by the Hong Kong-China boundary crossing ferries services:
- Macau Ferry Terminal - Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
- China Ferry Terminal - Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
and these two ferry terminals are accessible with MTR and local buses services.
Regardless with their name, both of these ferry terminals provides extensive network of ferry services towards BOTH various cities within Guangdong Provinces, China and Macau. However China Ferry Terminal contains a more frequent and extensive network towards China than its counterpart, while Macau Ferry Terminal provides a 24 hours ferry services towards Macau which its counterpart doesn't.
Although as a less-likely option of transportation, cruises services also serves Hong Kong and the cruise terminal of Hong Kong - Ocean Terminal locates in Kowloon Peninsula, right next to the Star Ferry at Tsim Sha Tsui.
Bus & Roads:
Visa
We believe Hong Kong is one of the most friendly territory in the world on visa policy. Nationals of about 170 countries and territories, which includes most of European & American States as well as British Commonwealth nations, may visit Hong Kong visa-free for a period ranging from 7 days to 180 days.
Visa Free
Citizens of the following countries do not need a visa in order to enter Hong Kong SAR:
180 days
United Kingdom
- British Citizens
Macau
- Permanent Macau Identity Card Holders
90 days
EU and EFTA Nations (except UK citizens)
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
the Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Andorra
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Dominica
Ecuador
Egypt
Faroe Islands
Fiji
The Gambia
Greenland
Guyana
Israel
Jamaica
Japan- Kenya
Kiribati
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritius
Mexico
Monaco
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
San Marino
Seychelles
Singapore
South Korea
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Taiwan Compatriot Entry Permit Obtainers only
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
- Except Tongan National passports, Tongan Protected Persons passports
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Tuvalu
- Except those with national status stated as 'I-TUVALU'
Uruguay- United Kingdom
- British Overseas Territories Citizens
- British Overseas Citizens
- British Subjects
- British Protected Persons
United States
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
30 days
Bahrain
Bolivia
Cape Verde
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
El Savaldor
Guatemala
Honduras
Indonesia
Jordan
Kuwait- Macau
- Non-permanent identity card holders
Morocco
Oman
Paraguay
Peru
Qatar
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Thailand
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Uganda
Yemen
14 days
Algeria
Benin
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Croatia
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Holy See
- excluding service passports
India
Lesotho
Macedonia
Madagascar
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Federated States of Micronesia
Mongolia
Mozambique
Niger
Palau
The Philippines
Russia
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Serbia
- biometric passports only, except those issued by the Co-ordination Directorate in Belgrade
Suriname
Ukraine
People's Republic of China
Chinese nationals with a hukou registration in Mainland China are required to obtain an entry permit from the Public Security Bureau for any type of visit to Hong Kong (short visits and long visits alike, including settlement). However, an exemption is made for Mainland Chinese passport holders who are transitting through Hong Kong to a third country. In this case, a visa waiver is available for those whose stay in Hong Kong lasts a maximum of 7 days and who can prove their onward journey.
Non-Chinese nationals living in other parts of the PRC are treated on the basis of their nationality, whilst Chinese nationals living in other parts of China who do not possess the right of abode in Hong Kong are treated based on the region in which they have a right of abode or household registration.
Cost
Estimation of air-travel costs from all continents
Round trip to Hong Kong international Airport of selected cities across continents; best price on ****** for ***Conference Date*** as of ***Time of reference***
| From | Airline | Price (USD) | Flight Time | Notes |
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| Tokyo (Narita/Haneda) | $XXX | 5hr | Test | |
| Dubai | $XXX | 8hr | Test | |
| Singapore | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Seoul | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Beijing | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Taipei | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Kuala Lumper | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Tel Aviv | $XXX | 0hr | Test |
| From | Airline | Price (USD) | Flight Time | Notes |
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| London (Heathrow) | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Paris (CDG) | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Amsterdam | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Berlin | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Helsinki | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Moscow | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Madrid | $XXX | 0hr | Test |
| From | Airline | Price (HKD) | Flight Time | Notes |
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| New York | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Los Angeles | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Toronto | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Vancouver | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| São Paulo | $XXX | 0hr | Test | |
| Mexico City | $XXX | 0hr | Test |
Tourism opportunities
- (when people travel from far away, they like to come for more than just the conference. What are the tourism opportunities around the ___location?)
- Macau
- Mainland China
Accommodation
- Location of main accommodation facilities
- (where can the attendees be hosted. On site, off site, how far from conference venue? For attendees? For VIPs?)
- Room details and price range
- (What's the accommodation like? Dorms, B&B, Hotel? Singles, doubles? How much does it cost per person and per day?)
- Catering (one meal a day, breakfast is a plus)
- (Where do we eat, how much it costs)
- Contacts with accommodation partner(s)
- (Have you contacted the proposed locations, exchange of emails, price quotes etc.)
Local transport
Hong Kong has a highly developed and sophisticated transport network, encompassing both public and private transport. Over 90% of the daily journeys are on public transport, making it the highest rate in the world. Hong Kong also posesses one of the safest, also cheapest, transportation network throughout most of the major cities in the world. Therefore unlike lots of large cities whereas safety and crime on public transportation is always criticized and gaining a negative reputation towards visitors, traveling around Hong Kong with public transport in most case is always confident in safety and economically favorable, making it gains a high positive reputation on a safe, clean and accessible system in comparison with lots of cities over the world.
Hong Kong also was one of the first city to apply, and currently the most advanced city on application with using smartcards as electronic payment, especially on transportation fare systems. The most convenient way to pay the fares while traveling around is to purchase a Octopus Card once arrived Hong Kong. They are purchasable on every MTR stations and hundreds, if not thousands, of convenient stores and shops everywhere around the city. "Add value" (top-up) services are also available on all of these locations, and the payments isn't only limited with transportations but also widely accepted on purchasing everyday goods in various shops, making itself as one of the most widely-used electronic purse system in the world. Of course, nearly all public transports accepts Octopus Cards as payment.
Due to it's extensive and complexity of the network contained in the city, often a same journey may be provided by different more of transportation or similar while different routes may be seen from the network. However you don't have to panic since most services are interconnected and major station provides assistance help or customer service centres and hence even you're lost you may get re-connected on the way you desired with another services. Brief descriptions on how to use it's enriched transportation system is described as below.
- MTR: As told from it's full name - Mass Transit Railway, it's currently being the metro-train services operator of Hong Kong, providing a convenient, network-extensive, and primarily the most efficient mode of transportation on traveling across different districts of Hong Kong. Fare ranges from HK$3.X towards $2X.X depends on the traveling distance and districts. All metro stations are accessible with franchised bus services, and some, although Airport express is provided by MTR system (but in a relatively higher fare than buses), are accessible with Airport buses.
Hong Kong Station, as the termini of Airport Express, located in the heart and the business financial centre of the city - Central. Kowloon Station is also reachable by local buses and walking distance from Jordan area. In-town check-in services and feeder buses between major hotels within urban areas and Hong Kong/Kowloon Station is provided and they're complimentary for passengers who're traveling with Airport Express from/towards these two stations. A journey between Airport and Hong Kong Station costs about 24 minutes.
- Buses: Buses in Hong Kong operates in franchise-operations with routes runs by different operators. Majority of routes runs by particular company, while harbour-crossing routes are often jointly-operated by two bus companies. Although looks complicated from a simple scratch, route numbering in Hong Kong are based on the types of route and the districts where they serve. There's are still some simple facts that may be applied to make a rough understanding about where the bus is going to take you towards.
- Bus routes in Kowloon Peninsula and New Territories shares a same numbering system. While on the other hand the whole Hong Kong Island has it's another own numbering system. Which means, there's a pair of route using a same number while completely independent to each other. For example 1 in the Island and 1 in Kowloon aren't related to each other.
- Harbour Crossing and Airport routes however, are using a same numbering system throughout the whole Hong Kong. Routes with a 100, 600 or 900 prefix are harbour-crossing, such as 102, 680 and 962. If you see a such bus in Hong Kong Island this means it's going to carry you across the harbour towards Kowloon or New Territories, and of course, vice versa if you're somewhere in Mong Kong or Shatin.
- Ho
There are currently five franchised bus companies in Hong Kong:
- Kowloon Motor Bus, branded as KMB, one of the largest privately-owned bus company in the world, also the dominant operator in routes of Kowloon Peninsula and New Territories. It has a second highest market share among all transportation in Hong Kong, behinding MTR. Unique design on red-coloued circular-shape routes indication over their bus stops is a symbolic characteristic of KMB.
- Long Win Bus, one of the airport bus operator. Unlike Citybus it has a independent franchise on it's airport buses service while it has a heavy correspondence with KMB - its mother company. Routes mainly serves between New Territories and Airports, as well as Tung Chung - the supporting town of the Airport.
Company and route details of both Long Win Bus and Kowloon Motor Bus may be found in a same website as [[1]].
- New World First Bus, or commonly knows as First Bus due to it's previous ownership by First Group of Britain, hence it's company name. One of the two dominant bus operator in Hong Kong Island, with a relatively minor network serving part of Kowloon and New Territories. Concentrating heavily on
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- Trams: Established in 1904, it's one of the oldest tramway in the world which remains operation today, especially majority of it's track is still following as a same alignment since it was built. Also among with the Blackpool Tram in Britain, it's the one of the world only two tramways which serves by double-decker tram as revenue operation. Therefore the tramway itself, not act as only a mode of everyday transportation but also possesses a tourism value while traveling them. The main tramway it follows was roughly whereas the coastline of Hong Kong Island lies in a century ago, and journey travels across the modern finance centre of the city, from those sectors whereas both Europeans and Chinese concentrated respectively in the past, and the area where it's used to called as 'Victoria City' in the West, to the authentic everyday-life scene of common Hong Kongers around district such as Shau Kei Wan or North Point in the East. Fares are very cheap, as $2.X for adult and $1.X for children and elderly, regardless the distance traveled the tramway shares the same fare for any single journey. The price of tramways is often, although it's still very cheap in terms of fares standards with most cities, cheaper than the parallel routes which may be reached by using buses or MTR.
- Ferry:
- Taxis:
Local social opportunities
- (Wikimania usually does not offer dinner. What are the surroundings of the ___location like? Lots of restaurants and places to hang out? What is the local transportation like?)
Consulates
Hong Kong has Consulates general for more than 50 nations, some even are the ones of the largest diplomatic mission in the region.
Only Consulates general are listed here (in case of the Portugese Republic, whose CG is located in Macau), there are some nations are represented by Honourary Consuls, please refer to the information on Website of HK Government's Protocol Division.
Full list of Consulates general in Hong Kong
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Financial
Local sponsorship opportunities
Possibility of local sponsorships
- Contacts
- (no name needed, just "company X, 4000 USD or will provide 300 beds)
Media and public relations
As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest media player. The loose regulation over the establishment of a newspaper makes Hong Kong home to many international media such as Asian Wall Street Journal and FEER, and a number of prominent international broadcasters with studios & offices in Hong Kong, including CNN & Bloomberg, or at least correspondents in Hong Kong covers local affairs and events in the nearby region. With one of the world's largest press industries Hong Kong is also a major centre for print journalism.
By 2009, 4.3 million Hong Kong residents were online, a penetration rate of nearly 70% (official statistics), and new media & social media is popular and vibrant in the town. Social media & Internet related events are celebrated all around the year in the City, including Web-Wednesdays and Barcamp.
Local media outlets
Full list of media outlets in Hong Kong
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From the experience of previous Chinese Wikimedia Conference the local commercial print media, that would be interested in covering various aspects of this event. A new trend that is different from the situation in 2006, for Hong Kong print media is free newspapers, and most of which belongs to a group with a paid newspaper, are more and more popular.
2 broadcast television networks, ATV and TVB, and several subscription networks are available for the public in Hong Kong, and most of them are produced and broadcasted in a digital television format. All the networks have extensive local news broadcasts, and some with a 24/7 channel dedicated on real time news programs. The public broadcaster RTHK also produced current affairs program, though without her own channels, the program had to broadcast via the networks.
Hong Kong is home to a variety of radio stations that offer programming in Cantonese & English, and a few in languages of different ethnic groups in the territories. Aside from local AM and FM radio channels, online radio is also booming.
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Media interest
The Wikimania conference has been covered nearly every year by the New York Times, and we anticipate that coverage by these major media from all around the world would increase were the 2013 conference to be held in Hong Kong, because of most of these media have their own correspondent in Hong Kong all the time. Experience from previous Chinese Wikimedia Conference also tell us, such international event will bring local media coverage as well, and a number of them are constantly in touch with the Communication Commission of the Hong Kong Chapter. Keynote speakers of high caliber will also help to bring in additional media interest, and the bid team is prepared to coordinate media engagement throughout the event, as a number of volunteers are actually working within the media sector or under professional journalism training.
Miscellaneous
Anything you feel should be brought to the attention of the jury.
Self-evaluation
- Weaknesses of the proposed ___location ...and how to overcome those weaknesses
- Weakness 1
- Solution 1
- Weakness 2
- Solution 2
- Strengths of the proposed ___location
- Strength 1
- Strength 2