A number of high-profile e-government projects have already been taking place locally and internationally. To enable success of these projects, standardization is recognized as a key factor to enable interoperability between governments, business enterprises and various organisations.

Speakers from Australia, Spain, the US and Macau will share at a symposium this Friday (May 16) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus the new developments and international projects that use open standards for e-Government and electronic business.

The symposium is co-organized by Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), HKU and Document Engineering Services. In recent years, CECID has been involved in a number of e-Government projects of various sectors.

Media representatives are cordially invited to cover the symposium:-

Date:         May 16, 2008 (Fri)
Time:        2:15pm - 5:45pm
Venue:      Theatre B, LG1, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
Language:  English
Programme:  (For Details:- http://www.cecid.hku.hk/symposium/index.html)

2:20 pm
Speaker: Professor David Cheung (CECID, HKU)
Topic : Opening Remarks

2:30 pm
Speaker: Mr Tim McGrath (Document Engineering Services, Australia)
Topic :  UBL and Document Engineering

3:15 pm
Speaker: Mr Oriol Bausa (Document Engineering Services, Spain)
Topic : Public e-Procurement in Europe

4:15 pm
Speaker: Mr Michael Onder(Department of Transport, USA)
Topic : Electronic Freight Management (EFM)

5:00 pm
Speaker: Mr C T Hon (Macau University of Science & Technology, Macau)
Topic : Macau Postal Address Common Schema and Address Change Service Project

For enquiries please contact:-
- Ms Rosanna Yip, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development, HKU (Tel.: 2241 5387 /E-mail: info@cecid.hku.hk); or
- Ms Denise Wong, Manager (Media), External Relations Office, HKU (Tel: 2859 2600 / 9842 6002 / E-mail: denise.wong@hku.hk ).