[Members Only] NOTICE OF AGM 2020 AND ELECTION

FOR ISOC HK MEMBERS ONLY

NOTICE OF AGM 2020 AND ELECTION

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Internet Society Hong Kong Limited will be held on 22-Dec-2020 (Tuesday).

The Election of the Board of Directors will be held in the AGM. Five seats of the Board will be opened for election, with four seats for the full member category and one seat for the general member category. For joining the election, please fill in the appropriate nomination form and submit the form on or before 15 Dec 2020.

Annual General Meeting 2020

Date: 22nd December 2020 (Tuesday)

Time: 7:30pm – 8:30pm (please be punctual)

Venue: Oursky, Room B, 10/F, Great Wall Building, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong (You may also choose to attend online with our meeting room link)

Participants: Internet Society Hong Kong members only

Registration: Please email your name to [email protected] with subject “Registration for AGM 2020”

Agenda of Meeting

Confirmation of Agenda
Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oM_KpguPhwkWhHATDD4rpwxYDXwYEgtQ/view?usp=sharing
Confirmation of Business Report
Confirmation of Financial Report
Election of Board of Directors
AOB

Documents

The documents are password protected. Please reach out to [email protected] for password.

Financial report:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KZ9yh9XihZGsEi7pXuvQmID0Is1zE4CS/view?usp=sharing

Nomination forms for Full Member:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-0vE5AZCZg5SGGpdJ7Hlyo9EHOVeNA3t/view?usp=sharing

Nomination forms for General Member:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7ncc1Ap9nnnsQ4paJlRoR9FNLZQI-jA/view?usp=sharing

Members can also participate through signing the proxy form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1idKUPJPoF2ueLlUEKrh_nieSnRCHsc_n/view?usp=sharing.

Election Committee

An Election Committee was appointed on 27th November, 2020. The members are Jacky Ng, Wo Sang Yeung, Chester Soong and SC Leung.

Hong Kong Internet Governance Forum: Is the National Security Law Hong Kong’s Great Firewall?

Date: 18 NOV
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: ZOOM
Language: English

On July 1, Hong Kong’s sweeping new national security law came into effect. Though the law doesn’t target the technology sector per se, Article 9 stipulates that the Hong Kong government “shall employ necessary measures to strengthen publicity, guidance, oversight and management in schools, social organizations, media, networks and other matters related to national security,” with “networks” here referring to the internet.

Though it still seems unclear how the law may practically be carried out, we can already see such a chilling effect. Facebook, Google and Twitter suspended user info requests from the Hong Kong government, some VPN firms shut down Hong Kong servers, the mobile app ‘Eat With You’ which labels local eateries supportive of the Hong Kong protesters terminated its service. Not to mention some residents have started to delete their Twitter accounts and messages over security law concerns.

Speakers:

※Antony Dapiran – Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer, author of the book ‘City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong’

※Ho Wa Wong – Founder of g0vhk

※Edwin Chu – Co-founder of Enyk Security

※Sharron Fast – Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC)

※Charles Mok – Legislative Councillor (Information Technology)

In this Webinar, we have invited experts from different aspects to talk about how the security will affect Hong Kong citizens’ online activities, as well as how it may affect tech entrepreneurs and larger companies as they go about their day-to-day operations and long-term plans. And how can the tech civil society deal with this situation.

[Webinar] Data for Environment: From Insight to Action

Prof. Rolien Hoyng, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK and the Internet Society Hong Kong are organising Data for Environment: From Insight to Action. We invite you to join our webinar discussing the role of data in tackling the environmental problems that cities like Hong Kong are facing.

The event explores how better access to, and use of, data can contribute to social innovation and awareness of environmental threats such as pollution and waste. What kinds of data would be necessary and what can be done with them? What can Open Data mean for stakeholders such as environmental NGOs and how can they push for it?

Date: 23 October, 2020 (Friday)

Time: 15:30 – 17:30

Venue: Online meeting room

Registration: https://forms.gle/KwvSe8KFvBUptDRd6

Speaker:

Prof. Daisy Tam, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, HKBU

Prof. Tam will talk about her research journey in food waste and her web application Breadline (by HKFoodWorks) which uses data to decentralise food rescue operations.

Prof. Wilson Lu, Department of Real Estate and Construction, HKU

How much construction waste is being dumped illegally in Hong Kong’s countryside? Prof. Lu is going to tell us about his research project that dug out the truth using data mining and modelling.

Mr. Wendell Chan, Project Officer of Friends of the Earth

How “green” are LegCo and District Councils? Friends of the Earth looks into the meeting minutes, attendance and voting record of council members to find out how committed they are to environmental issues.

Dr. Scott Edmunds, CivicSight (formerly Open Data Hong Kong) & CitizenScience.Asia

There are not many publicly available academic and government data in Hong Kong. That was why Dr. Edmunds mobilised the power of citizen-collected data in his crowdsourced mosquito detection projects and in understanding other environmental issues.

什麽是「路由安全共同協議規範」Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)?

路由系統是全球網絡基礎設施的重要一部分；不良分子可以透過騎劫路由器 (route hijacking)、路由洩漏 (route leaks)、欺騙網絡協定地址 (IP Address spoofing)等發起分散式阻斷服務攻擊 (DDOS) 及其他攻擊網絡服務的手段。因此，路由系統的保安和韌性(reslience) 至關重要。互聯網協會 (ISOC) 推動的「路由安全共同協議規範」（Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security，MANRS）計劃，正是為常見的路由威脅提供關鍵修復，維護互聯網的穩定和安全。

這項計劃促進網絡運營商（ISP）、互聯網交換點（IXP）、內容交付網絡（CDN）和雲端供應商的及時通信和協調，並鼓勵他們發布和分享路由數據。參加的運營商亦要同意防止傳播錯誤的路由信息，以及截停帶有欺騙性源頭的IP地址流量。更重要的是，這個計劃鼓勵網絡營運商承諾和承擔維護路由系統的保安和韌性的責任；同時，透過更多支持者的加入，擴大這個安全規範的影響力。

大家可以在此查閲到MANRS參加者名單: https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ 大部分服務香港的網絡運營商，均提供跨區域性服務。MANRS參加者名單上列出了8 間服務香港的網絡運營商；其中有兩間運營商: Anexia 以及RETN 達到MANRS全部4項服務要求目標，分別是防止錯誤的路由信息傳播 (filtering)；防止IP地址欺騙 (anti-spoofing)；改善網絡之間的協調 (coordination)；路由信息驗證 (global validation)。

資料提供: ISOC 義工訓練計劃參加者Joey Che

2020年6月20日

什麽是社區網絡 (Community Networks)?

很多人以爲互聯網必須由互聯網服務供應商 (ISP) 提供。其實，你也可以”自己動手”建造網絡。

社區網絡 (Community Networks) 提供了互聯網服務供應商 (ISP) 以外的另類網絡——一個由社區成員配置及經營、而且自行擁有和管理的電信基礎設施。數碼鴻溝 (digital divide) 是發展社區網絡的其中一個重要原因；例如，偏遠地區人口密度低，網絡搭建成本亦昂貴，因此削弱了互聯網服務供應商 (ISP) 到該處提供互聯網服務的商業誘因。

基於「互聯網屬於每一個人」(“Internet is for everyone”) 的宗旨，互聯網協會 (Internet Society (ISOC)) 致力緩解數碼鴻溝 (digital divide) 的問題，而社區網絡正是互聯網協會 (ISOC) 其中一個重點發展項目。透過推廣和提供訓練，互聯網協會 (ISOC) 幫助有需要的社區建設社區網絡 (詳見: https://www.internetsociety.org/tutorials/wireless-community-networks)。

社區網絡能夠幫助市民減低連接網絡的費用，讓普羅大衆均可利用互聯網資源，例如電子學習、電子政府服務、電子商務平台等。在荷蘭，其無線萊頓基金會 (Wireless Leiden)利用低成本的硬件、開源軟件、開放標準在萊頓及周邊村莊建設無線社區網絡，為當地居民提供開放、便宜、快速的無線網絡連接。

香港社區網絡的需求

香港家中有接駁互聯網的住戶佔所有住戶百分比雖然已達到94%*，但在一些偏遠新界及離島地區的居民，例如北面荔枝窩、雅洲、坪輋，東面海下灣，西面新田、上白泥，大嶼山分流、羌山、蓮花山等地區，尚有接駁互聯網的困難。

由於本港絕大部分住戶都有電力供應，處於偏遠地方的居民，理論上可藉電力傳輸線寬頻（Broadband over power lines，簡稱BPL）接駁互聯網。它是一種利用公共電力傳輸線，進行高速率資料傳輸的電力傳輸線通信技術（Power Line Communication，簡稱PLC），可在長距離電力傳輸線上提供高速率的資料傳輸。以此作為接入點，就可以在偏遠社區建構無線網絡。社區網絡方便推動偏遠地區的居民分享互聯網上的資訊，以及與世界志同道合的社群接觸，放眼世界。

另一方面，有大型群眾活動的地方，網絡連接亦經常發生樽頸不流暢情況。社區無線網絡可以解決這個窘況，因為建構社區網絡的器材要求簡單，價錢低廉，建立容易，在大部分國家都並不需要再申領牌照，以無線在2.4G和5G頻譜傳輸。在突發性的情況下，藉著臨時設立的社區網絡，群眾亦可分享連接互聯網的機會。

如有興趣瞭解更多，可參考:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gquACP4fTmBTPQbJ9NIfLuZ5PQPo1sSo/view?usp=sharing 這個教學課程由國際互聯網協會編纂而成，由ISOC 義工訓練計劃參加者Noel Leung 翻譯，以分享給有志於建構社區網絡人士參考使用。

2020年6月15日

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