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Charles Mok BIOGRAPHY
Chairman, Internet Society Hong Kong
Ex-officio Member and immediate past president, Hong Kong Information Technology Federation
Chairman, Health IT Special Interest Division, Hong Kong Computer Society
Convener, Working Group on Creative Industries, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce
Vice Chairman, The Professional Commons
Councilor, Engineers Without Borders (Hong Kong)
Director, Computancy Limited
Charles Mok is an influential figure in the ICT sector and Internet community in Hong Kong. He is well known as a pioneer who advocates for the open development, evolution and wider application of the Internet and ICT for the benefit of Hong Kong society.
Industry services
Charles has committed himself in industry and public services as well as policy advocacy since the mid-1990. Charles is the Founding Chairman of Internet Society Hong Kong (ISOC HK), a regional Chapter of the world's largest Internet advocacy group, The Internet Society, which provides leadership in Internet related standards, education, governance and policy.
Charles is also the Ex-officio Member and immediate past president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF) and the Chairman of Health IT Special Interest Division (HITSID) of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS). He is the Convener of the Working Group on Creative Industries, as well as a member of the Digital, Information and Telecommunications Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC). In addition, he sits on the Preparatory Executive Committee of Creative Commons Hong Kong (CC-HK), a project to localize the Creative Commons license to the Hong Kong SAR, to let local creators mark their creative works as 'some rights reserved' to facilitate legal sharing, remixing and reusing.
Charles was a past chairman and a co-founder of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA). Under his chairmanship, he established the first ISP codes of practice with the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) and the Office of Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) in 1999 and 2000 respectively, to handle obscene and indecent content on the Internet, and spam emails. He was also a Director of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation (HKIRC) from 2002 to 2004.
Public services
Further to his long industry services record, Charles is a member of many key Hong Kong government statutory bodies and advisory committees, including Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee, Hospital Authority, Transport Advisory Committee and Non-Local Higher and Professional Education Appeal Board. He was elected as a member of the First (1998), Second (2000) and Third (2005) Election Committees in the IT Subsector with the majority support from the ICT constituency.
Previously Charles was appointed as a member of the Committee on Economic Development and Economic Cooperation with the Mainland of the Commission on Strategic Development (2005-2007), Consumer Council (2000-2006), Trade and Industry Advisory Board (1998-2005), and Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (1997-2004). He was also a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit (2000-2001).
During his term of public and industry services, Charles strongly advocates the wider adoption of ICT in public services such as Health IT and Intelligent Transportation Systems with a view to enhance citizen’s quality of life. For the betterment of the ICT sector, Charles has paid ongoing effort for raising the ICT professional status and development. He also promotes fair competition and liberalization of the local and external telecommunications and communications market.
Internationally, Charles sits on the Policy Advisory Board of dotMobi, the operator for “.mobi,” the sponsored top level domain operator dedicated for mobile Internet. He also served as one of the Internet Society's Ambassadors at the Internet Governance Forum 2007, a global event held under the auspices of the United Nations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Social services
Charles believes that professionals owe the society a duty to safeguard public interest by contributing their own professional knowledge and expertise. In 2007, together with the professionals from other sectors who shared a common goal, Charles founded and has served as the Vice Chairman of The Professional Commons - the first cross-sector professional think tank focusing on improving public governance in Hong Kong.
Charles is also a founding councilor on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Hong Kong) (EWB-HK), which is an independent humanitarian organization dedicated to provide professional engineering assistance to disaster-stricken and impoverished communities.
Charles is active in supporting social and human services. He has been a member of the management committee of Cyber Senior Network Development Association since its founding in 2001. He is also a member of the Digital Solidarity Fund Committee since its establishment in 2004. He is an ICT and technology advisor for the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association (HKYWCA) and Senior Citizen Home Safety Association.
Charles strikes for human rights, rule of law, democracy, and freedom of information for years. He is a Founding member of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, and a Director of Hong Kong Democratic Foundation.
Professional education and career
Charles is a PhD student in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He graduated from Purdue University in the United States with a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. He worked in the United States with Digital Equipment Corporation and SunSoft, Inc., a Sun Microsystems, Inc. company. He was the Deputy Managing Director and a co-founder of HKNet Company Limited, one of Hong Kong’s earliest Internet service providers, that was acquired by a Japanese corporation in 1999. He also served as the Chief Technology Advisor of Compaq Computer Taiwan Limited and the Chief Executive Officer of Halo Solutions Limited. Currently, Charles is a Director of Computancy Limited.
Charles was awarded as one of Hong Kong’s "Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons” in 1999. He has also been writing extensively on technology, management and public policy. He was a co-author of the review on Hong Kong's ICT sector in Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008, a publication by United Nations Development Programme's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme. His academic research paper on Hong Kong's innovation policy was published in WaiGuo JingJi Yu GuanLi (2006 Edition) (Foreign Economy and Management), from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Currently, his articles and commentaries are appearing regularly in Hong Kong Economic Journal, CUP magazine and e-zone. His first book, Hong Kong 2.0, was published in January 2008. In addition, he has been a co-host for various radio programmes on Commercial Radio Hong Kong and RTHK Radio 3 (English).
Charles is a Fellow of Hong Kong Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Charles is a Christian and he is married. |
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