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Hong Kong Observatory awarded in Hong Kong ICT Awards 2022

18 November 2022

The Hong Kong Observatory won the Smart Living (Smart Lifestyle) Silver Award of the Hong Kong Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Award 2022 with its mobile app “MyObservatory”. The Hong Kong ICT Awards aims at recognising and promoting outstanding ICT inventions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among Hong Kong’s talents and enterprise in their constant pursuit of creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs. The awards were presented at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 16 November 2022.

The "MyObservatory" app provides a suite of public weather services of the Hong Kong Observatory. It was highly popular since its launch in 2010. In addition to providing present weather conditions and 9-day forecasts at user’s current or selected locations, the app is equipped with "Location-based Rain and Lightning Forecast" service, which employed state-of-the-art weather nowcasting and data compression technologies with personalised push notifications. The new function "My Weather Observation" enabled sharing of crowdsourced reports with reasonably quality while respecting user’s privacy by adopting a zero-knowledge approach, and helped to raise public’s awareness and preparedness for challenges of extreme weather. The close integration of "MyObservatory" and the Observatory’s Chatbot "Dr. Tin" also brought an elevated level of user experiences.

The "MyObservatory" is a free app. Users are welcome to download at the following links (https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/myobservatory.htm), or the app store of respective platforms.

Diagram 1: LinkedIn’s Head of Talent Solutions, Ms Mei Mei Ng (third from left), presented the award to Mr Armstrong Cheng, Senior Scientific Officer (third from right), Mr Ben Or, Acting Senior Scientific Officer (second from right), Ms Cindy Lam, Scientific Officer (first from right), Mr Lawrence Lo, System Analyst (second from left) and Mr Simon Lin, Analyst Programmer (first from left)

Diagram 1: LinkedIn’s Head of Talent Solutions, Ms Mei Mei Ng (third from left), presented the award to Mr Armstrong Cheng, Senior Scientific Officer (third from right), Mr Ben Or, Acting Senior Scientific Officer (second from right), Ms Cindy Lam, Scientific Officer (first from right), Mr Lawrence Lo, System Analyst (second from left) and Mr Simon Lin, Analyst Programmer (first from left)

Smart Living (Smart Lifestyle) Silver Award

Diagram 2: The Hong Kong Observatory won the Smart Living (Smart Lifestyle) Silver Award of the Hong Kong Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Award 2022