莫乃光 宣佈參選2008年立法會選舉

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今天，我宣佈參選2008年立法會選舉資訊科技功能組別議席。

在開始之時，容許我多謝今天每一位支持我的的朋友。大家的支持，對我來說是一個很大的鼓勵。但我知道，大家不只是為了支持我；而是當大家再一次知道，香港需要你們的時候，你們就來了。無論過去現在，無論身在毗鄰還是身處各地，為了香港，我們都多次一起站出來。

今次選舉，不只是屬於我個人的事。這是屬於每個IT人，屬於每個香港人，更是關於香港的專業人士，走在一起為香港做事。
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專業人士的目光是長遠、科學、理性，較具發展觀。他們專業的職責，就是運用他們的專門知識，服務社會、推動發展。這些，就是我們珍惜的專業精神。可惜，近年香港的發展趨勢，卻令人覺得專業精神再得不到重視。就是這種風氣，讓我們深深明白為何香港政府和社會不重視可持續發展、不肯研究和投資新經濟和科技、不願意為產業開發新的競爭優勢，以至不能夠解決社會兩極化等不和諧因素。

所以，我今天宣佈參選立法會資訊科技功能界別議席，就是為改變香港近年來專業精神得不到重視的情況。

For ICT, for Hong Kong – 是我參選的理念和主軸。各位，香港現在需要我們，就讓我們一起，繼續站出來、改變這個世界。

We are in a world of rapid transformations. Our leaders and our industry must be prepared for change. Our educational system must even be able to train our next generations for a future society that we do not know about today. This sums up the challenge our society faces today, and while much of this challenge has been brought on by technological changes, I believe technology, innovation and knowledge will form the solutions to this challenge.
So how will these critical factors – and more directly our ICT (information and communications technology) industry – reshape Hong Kong's future society and economic development? How will Hong Kong take on the opportunities and indeed responsibilities presented in front of us, and compete to reach a higher ground of success?
In my book “Hong Kong 2.0,” published in January 2008, I examined how Web 2.0 technology, applications and culture had made a strong impact on our economy and society from the bottom up. I sum up these shift factors into four areas:
Economy 2.0 – Hong Kong must abandon our short-sighted culture of quick money and numerous excuses made against the technology sector – our market is too small, we don't have enough talents, etc. Hong Kong cannot run on one leg – financial services – alone, and indeed we owe it to our country in making our share of the contribution to the national development in innovation and technology.
Governance 2.0 – Network technologies have made future governance of companies and governments more and more “democratic” -- from bottom-up rather than top-down, more interactive and participatory. Our leaders must accept this change in culture for more participatory democracy in order to minimize conflicts and maximize from the wisdom of the masses.
Sharing 2.0 -- The essence of Web 2.0 is in sharing: user-generated content. As professionals, we must accept a bigger share of user responsibilities. “Ordinary people have more power to do public good than ever before because of the rise of non-governmental organizations, because of the global media culture, because of the Internet, which gives people of modest means the power, if they all agree, to change the world,” Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said at the Harvard College commencement exercise in 2007.¹
Think 2.0 – For Hong Kong, our government, corporations and individuals all have to contemplate change. I use the word think because it must be a deliberate process – not just following what others may tell you what to do – and, think is a verb. So, it is a call for action. You are a part of this change.
It is with these principles in mind that I have written this election platform, word by word, sentence by sentence. However, in accordance with this 2.0 shift, this election platform can be participatory too. Please visit the Hong Kong 2.0.1 – the wiki version – to edit your views, and be edited, as an experiment to develop our collective wisdom.