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| The
society provides a channel of communication between academic and industry
for the purpose of commercializing the applied research into industrial
products. The academic and the industry seminars can be broadcast
to both parties through Hong Kong Web Society (HKWS)'s Web-site. The
society will develop a portal to provide free Internet service to
the IT professionals in Hong Kong for Web-based technologies transfer.
Its main goal is for academic and industry sectors to work together
by taking advantage of both parties' knowledge. The academics provide
theory and innovation ideas, and the business companies implement
the ideas through commercialization. Through the society, the academic
can communicate with the industry to find out the commercial market
values of their research results. They can help their applied research
projects and the commercialization of their research products. The
industry can contact their potential customers through the society. |
| Objective
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| To be an effective
professional body for Internet/Web technology transfer among the academic
and industrial practitioners. |
| Function
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The
main functions of the society will be:
* Provide research
oriented and commercial product promotion seminars (free of charge),
workshops and conferences to the IT professionals in Hong Kong at
tertiary institutions.
* Provide free portal service to IT professionals for Web-based
technology forum, news, software and hardware information.
* Provide free Internet service to the public to access the society's
Web-site in order to promote the use Web.
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| Portal
Services |
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| A portal is
developed at City University of Hong Kong which provides free Internet
service to IT professionals for Web-based technology transfer between
academic and industry, and for Web-based market information for academic
applied research and new industrial Web-based products. For academic,
the portal can help promote their high-tech innovative ideas to the
industry. For industry, they can sponsor selected applied research
projects for their commercialization products. |
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