a lightning talk presented at OpenDataHK.meet.12 to introduce g0v.tw and its projects, and quick brainstorming what can we do in Hong Kong for similiar projects.

1. Introduction of g0v.tw
台灣零時政府簡介
Sammy Fung
OpenDataHK.meet.12 (2013/12/12)
http://slidesha.re/1bzexIk

2. Sammy Fung
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Software Developer
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to use and develop open source sofware.
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Perl → PHP → Python.
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interests on Data Mining / Web Crawling.
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own a startup of web and mobile technology.

3. Sammy Fung
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15+ years in Open Source Communities.
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Founding Chairman, Hong Kong Linux User Group.
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Founding Chairman, Open Source Hong Kong.
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Member, GNOME Asia committee.
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Mozilla Representative
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Member, program committee at COSCUP
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Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Developers.
Largest open source conference in Taiwan.
Participant, Open Data Hong Kong.

4. g0v.tw

5. g0v.tw
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Promote information transparency.
Develop information platform and tools for a
society of citizen participation.
Open Source model.
Stackoverflow-like Q&A system for public to
asking for data which they are looking for.

6. g0v.tw
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Established after Taiwan Yahoo! Open Hack
Day in October 2012.
Hackers, Professors, NGO/NPO, Students,
Writers, Visual Media, Legal Professionals.
Organize 5 bi-monthly hackathons since
December 2012.

7. Air Pollution Index

8. Air Pollution Index
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http://g0v.github.io/twgeojson/air.html
Develop a web-based visualized map of air
pollution.
Use Open Data provided by Environmental
Protection Administration
(opendata.epa.gov.tw)
Air Pollution Indexes and Data from different
stations.

9. Moedict 萌典

10. Moedict 萌典
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Raw data from Ministry of Education (edu.tw)
Community build of web-based chinese
dictionary with 160,000 Chinese items and
other items.
Support auto-completion, searching and
offline versions.
Source codes, other platforms, data are
available on 3du.tw (hackpad).

11. Government Budget

12. Government Budget
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budget.g0v.tw
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Visualization of government budget.
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Daily expense details of tax payers.

13. Other Examples of
g0v.tw

14. Company Registry Lookup

15. Voting Results

16. Newshelper Compliants of news with problems.

17. ...... and other projects.

18. Hong Kong version
of g0v.tw ?

19. My Projects

20. twitter.com/weatherhk

21. twitter.com/weatherhk
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Interview by MetroPop in 2009.

22. bit.ly/tctrack

23. hk0weather
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Hong Kong Weather Project.
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Python +Scrapy.
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Released in open source license.
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https://github.com/sammyfung/hk0weather
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Convert to JSON datas from HKO web pages.

24. hk0weather result output data
{"humidity": 80, "station": "hko", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "kingspark", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "wongchukhang", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "takwuling", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "laufaushan", "temperture": 15, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "taipo", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "shatin", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "tuenmun", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "tseungkwano", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "saikung", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "cheungchau", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "tsingyi", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "shekkong", "temperture": 15, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "tsuenwanhokoon", "temperture": 15, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "tsuenwanshingmunvalley", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "hongkongpark", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "shaukeiwan", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "kowlooncity", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "happyvalley", "temperture": 18, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "wongtaisin", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "stanley", "temperture": 16, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "kwuntong", "temperture": 15, "time": 1360785720},
{"station": "shamshuipo", "temperture": 17, "time": 1360785720}

25. legcovotes
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Helps HKU JMSC to fix the problem on their
legcovotes.
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Python +Scrapy.
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https://github.com/sammyfung/legcovotes
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Convert LegCo open voting data in XML into
JSON or any supported data store.

26. What's next for us ?
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Co-operate weather data project with other countries in East
Asia (Taiwan, Japan,......).
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Typhoon Data
First weather dataset in XML.
My next Project - Air Pollution Index:
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Web crawler to convert web pages to open data.
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Open Source.
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Participates OpenDataHK.
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Code4hk ?
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Vincent Lau

27. Lastly

28. g0v.tw at MaD 2014 Hong Kong
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Make a Difference (www.mad.asia)
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Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong
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January 10-12.
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Co-founder clkao 高嘉良 is invited as a speaker
at MaD.
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Topic: IF (DATA == "OPEN”)
HKLUG and OpenSourceHK will invite clkao for a
causal meetup.

29. Thank You!
sammy.hk
http://slidesha.re/1bzexIk