Severe Weather Information Centre website selected as one of the China's entries into the World Summit Award
19 April 2011
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The "Severe Weather Information Centre" (SWIC) website (http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/), developed and operated by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) on behalf of the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization, was selected in a national contest in 2011 as China's entries into the World Summit Award under the e-Government & Institution Category. The World Summit Award is a global contest held every two years to select best practice in e-Content and innovative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) applications. SWIC website is the only Hong Kong's entry selected this year to join the global contest. Other selected China entries included "Shanghai World Expo on the Internet". Following the "World Weather Information Service"website in 2009, this is the second time that the HKO's entry was selected as a China's entry into the World Summit Award. SWIC integrates and enhances regional activities to reduce loss of life and damages due to severe weather. The website makes use of ICT to provide one-stop tropical cyclone information originated from official weather services in different regions of the world. Apart from tropical cyclones, the website also provides official observation data for severe weather including gales, heavy rain and thunderstorm. To allow users to select and display automatically on their personal computers real-time weather warnings in different regions, a user-friendly new service called SWIdget was launched on the SWIC platform last year. Details can be found in HKO's webpagehttp://www.hko.gov.hk/whatsnew/f2/wn20101231e.htm.
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