(Conducted in English)
Background of The HK Foresight Project
“The Hong Kong Foresight Project aims to provide a neutral space in which stakeholders may seek solutions to emerging issues of significant importance. The task is to find common ground through open discussions in a facilitated and supportive surrounding.”
The project is an engagement and consensus building process to help identify issues of concern to Hong Kong and help formulate workable public policies to address them. Such a project is needed because we feel that in terms of policy development, Hong Kong seems to have lost the ability to engage stakeholders at an early stage, and that policy makers seem to lack both the conviction of the importance to gather and build consensus and the requisite political skills to do so.
| Date: | 1 Nov, 2008 (Sat) |
| Time: | 10:00am – 1:00pm |
| Venue: | HKU Space, Rm 601, 6/F, United Centre, , 95 Queensway, Admiralty H.K |
| Admission | Free Admission |
| Registration: | (email) [email protected] (Fax) 2903 0089 (Please download the application form and return to us after completion) |
| Enquiry: | (Tel) 8200 6332 / (E-mail) [email protected] |
Purpose of the Follow-up Workshop
Identify and prioritize issues to be addressed by the Project:
1. Emerging issues rather than those that have been long in the public domain so that they have already been comprehensively discussed and where positions are already entrenched.
2. Susceptible to discussion with a practical, rather than an ideological, focus.
3. Hong Kong issues that are relevant to Hong Kong as a whole rather than being restricted to small geographical areas.
4. Able to lead to some sort of Action Plan or Proposal rather than just a call for the Government to do an unspecified “something” or merely to “pay more attention to a particular issue”
5. Mainly requiring consideration of social, political and economic aspects rather than narrow technical aspects only.
Possible Topics
Demographics of Hong Kong – low birth rate and aging population, immigration and changes in geographical distribution
A culture of poverty issue — “Bad Families”, “Bad Kids” and “Bad Citizen”
Sustainable cultural development – cultural policy and a creative economy
Energy Efficiency, Health and Wellness