• To enhance understanding of students about Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) by designing a Chinese and a English name for the ambassador
• To enable students to get familiar with CSDI applications and related services

Visit https://csdi.gov.hk or refer to “Three Q&As on CSDI” section in the latter part of this fact sheet

The competition is open to all students in primary schools, secondary schools, and tertiary institutions.

1. Primary School Students
• Chinese name
• English name
2. Secondary School Students
• Chinese name
• English name
3. Tertiary Institution Students
• Chinese name
• English name

• Relevancy to the concept of CSDI 40%
• Thoughts behind (e.g. smart city, smart living) 30%
• Memorable & Catchy 20%
• Creativity 10%

Under each group, there will be Champion for Chinese and English name. There will be a Grand Champion for each of the English and Chinese category. There will be 8 prizes in total.

Prizes for each Champion will be books vouchers worth HK$300 and a certificate.

• Submission Date: 17 May to 12:00 noon on 30 June 2021
• Students who are interested please visit registration link to submit your entries during the above-mentioned submission period. Participants can propose either Chinese or English name, or both

Award Presentation will take place at the Geospatial Lab grand opening ceremony, tentatively scheduled in July 2021. All winners will be informed individually.

1. What is Spatial Data? Why is it important?

   “Spatial data” refers to any data with reference to a specific geographical location. In fact, “spatial data” has long been integrated into our lives. We can use the map applications in our mobile phones, for example, combined with Global Positioning System (GPS) to locate nearby restaurants, parking lots or bus stops by their addresses, streets or building names and more.

   Geographical location is the bridge between information. It can associate relevant information of facilities that are above, on and under ground level to support the development of various smart city applications. According to overseas academic research, more than 80% of all data is location-related information.

2. What is Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) ?

   Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) aims to provide government departments as well as public and private organisations with an information infrastructure to promote the sharing of spatial data and support the development of various smart city applications. It is envisaged that the establishment of CSDI standards to facilitate linkage and integration of spatial data from various government departments and that of the whole territory, and the provision of a common platform for integration and exchange of geospatial information will be conducive to the provision of reliable spatial data services for the efficient use of resources, development of a smart city and sustainable development.

3. Why do we need to develop CSDI?

   Throughout the years, various government departments as well as public and private organisations have made use of the Geographic Information System (GIS) to facilitate the management of individual geographic related spatial data and/or the development of different map service platforms. The spatial data thus generated, therefore, comes from different government in-house data systems and are without common standards. The development of the Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) aims to provide a platform to link and integrate geospatial data across various government departments to facilitate easy sharing and use of high-quality spatial data by government departments, public and private organisations, academics as well as the general public.

1. Entries should be original and should not be issued or published or awarded in other competitions before.
2. The Organiser has the right to publicise the awarded entries in any media.
3. The copyright of all submissions will be vested with the Organiser. The judging panel members chosen by the Organiser have the final decision on the results of the competitions.
4. Should there be same suggested names, the one submitted earlier will be accepted.
5. Entries should not contain any material that is obscene, violent, pornographic, defamatory, indecent, disparaging or content that is controversial and inappropriate.
6. All entries submitted must be without infringing on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)* of any party. The Organiser shall not be responsible for any liability arising whatsoever or howsoever from any violation of any copyright laws. Please visit https://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/pub_press/publications/iphk_e.pdf for details of Intellectual Property in Hong Kong.
7. The Organiser reserves the right to copy, use, modify, display, publish and distribute the submitted entries, or distribute them to any media for publicity or education purposes, without remuneration or other notice. The Organiser also reserves the right to use or not to use the winning entries.
8. Any submitted entries in relation to submission delay, loss, and any information transmission error or unreadable due to technical problems including but not limited to any computer, smart phone or internet network issues will be regarded as unsuccessful submission.
9. Suspected or actual fraud and abuse by participants of this competition may result in the participation/prize being forfeited forthwith without prior notice.
10. The Organiser reserves the absolute right to select, restrict, reject, or remove any texts submitted with ideas that contain inappropriate language or sensitive content, that are unsafe irrelevant, or infringe the intellectual property of any third party in the competition at any time, without explanation or further notice.
11. The Organiser has the right to cancel, terminate, change or suspend the competition, and to amend the Terms and Conditions of the competition without prior notice. Participants shall agree to abide by the above.
12. All submissions will not be returned to the participants.
13. In case of any dispute, the Organiser reserves the right to make the final decision.
14. All information collected from submission to the competition will only be used for the purpose entering this competition and related matters. All personal data will be destroyed one month after the announcement of the results.

Please contact the Organiser on 46360689 via whatsapp or email services@csdigeolab.gov.hk