We are organizing a visit to HK Efficiency Unit & SIE Fund. Details are as below.
Date: 26th March 2015, Thu (10:30 am - 12:30 noon)
Venue: Idea 1 & 2, EU, 41/F., Revenue Tower, 5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, HK
Agenda: Briefing on the SIE Fund and tour around of the EU office
The visit will be free of charge. The meeting point is Piazza HKUST (9:15am), or Revenue Tower (10:15am). Please reply to this email to identify where you’d like to meet up.
Dress code: business casual
For more information, please contact Jerry Zhu (jerry.zhu@ust.hk / +852-5222-4639)
About the Efficiency Unit…
The Efficiency Unit reports directly to the Chief Secretary for Administration and is tasked with pursuing the Government's commitment to transforming the management and delivery of public services so that the community's needs are met in the most effective and efficient manner. The unit works in partnership with bureaux and departments across the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to identify opportunities for performance enhancement, design practical solutions, develop compelling business cases, and secure effective implementation.
About the SIE Fund...
In Hong Kong today some are enjoying opportunity and prosperity but others are finding it increasingly difficult to find security and prospects for themselves and their families. While traditional measures can provide a safety net that alleviates hardship, finding new ways to restore opportunity to those who now find themselves left behind socially or economically makes good sense. Learning how to create new patterns of business and social engagement that allow ever more of the people who make up this city to contribute their own ideas and energy to the common wealth of the community is vital as new technology changes the nature of the world in which we live.
With the objective to further nurture social entrepreneurship and innovation in Hong Kong, the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) was announced in late 2012. A task force has been set up under the Commission on Poverty to oversee how the $500 million fund is used. The SIE Fund aims to stimulate cross-sector collaboration, sharing learning and experience, guiding resources to groom and coach entrepreneurs, incubating and implementing new ideas, with the expectation that some of these will lead to new, sustainable businesses that help tackle poverty and social exclusion in the community.