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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988

HE SAID THE COMMITTEE DID NOT HAVE ANY SCIENCE DEPARTMENT WHICH COULD PROVIDE CENTRALISED SUPPORT. SECRETARIAT BACK-UP FOR THE COMMITTEE WAS REQUIRED.

AND TECHNOLOGY BETTER TECHNICAL

THE SUCH PROBLEMS COULD BE SOLVED BY ADJUSTING AND SIMPLIFYING

AMONG THE PARTIFS EXISTING BUREAUCRACY AND IMPROVING COMMUNICATION CONCERNED.

THE

AT

PROF POON ALSO URGED THE GOVERNMENT IMMEDIATELY TO PROVIDE

WITH AN COMMITTEE

BUDGET

"REALISTICALLY ANNUAL

WHICH WOULD BE то ACHIEVE ADEQUATE" TO ENABLE

ITS OBJECTIVES. PRESENT, THE COMMITTEE HAD NO CAPITAL GRANT OR INDEPENDENT VOTE.

THE COMMITTEE

"WHILE THERE IS

NO

LACK

OF

ENTHUSIASM OR

ON ABILITY

THE OBJECTIVES, WE CANNOT DEVELOP WAVING

COMMITTEE'S PART TO FULFIL ALL THESE AND IMPLEMENT NEW IDEAS AND ORGANISE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES BY A MAGIC WAND," HE SAID.

THERE WAS A NEED TO PROMOTE PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS.

AWARENESE OF SCIENCE AND

FOR HONG "ALL OUR EFFORTS TO MAKE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WORK

THE MESSAGE GETS THROUGH TO OUR KONG WOULD ONLY BE WORTHWHILE IF

THIS IS FACTORY WORKERS, HOUSEWIVES AND OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. AFTER ALL,

HE SAID. WHAT POPULAR SCIENCE EDUCATION IS ALL ABOUT,

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A GREATER DEGREE OF CO-ORDINATION COULD ACHIEVE BETTER RESULTS.

TOWARDS

THIS

PROF

PRAISED THE

FOR POON

GOVERNMENT

MOVING ESTABLISHMENT OF HONG KONG'S FIRST TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, DESCRIBING AS "ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING PROJECTS" AND "A LAUDABLE MOVE".

FACTORS THAT WOULD DETERMINE ITS BUT HE LISTED A NUMBER OF EVENTUAL SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE IN ENCOURAGING INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY.

INPUT

"ONE OF

FACTORS IS THESE

THE

OF IDEAS ADEQUATE CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRY," HE SAID.

IDEAS EXCHANGE FAIRS IN ACTIVE CONSIDERATION

HE BELIEVED THAT ONE VERY EFFECTIVE WAY TO PRODUCE THESE WOULD BE TO HOLD REGULAR INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG, A PROPOSAL WHICH WAS CURRENTLY UNDER BY THE COMMITTEE.

"THROUGH THE ORGANISATION

INTERNATIONAL

GRADUALLY

ACHIEVE

TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE," HE SAID.

OF THESE

RECOGNITION

AS

FAIRS, HONG KONG WOULD A CENTRE FOR

SUCH AS THE TRADE

HE THEREFORE URGED ALL PARTIES CONCERNED, DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, TO GIVE FULL SUPPORT TO THE PROPOSAL.

TURNING TO THE ENVIRONMENT, PROF POON MENTIONED MAJOR WHICH HE FELT HAD NOT BEEN ADDRESSFD PROPERLY.

CONCERNS

/HE SAID