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Mr Charles Mok
is an early entrepreneurs of Hong Kong's Internet industry,
and has been actively promoting Hong Kong's ICT industry
development and digital inclusion. He has served the
community and monitored the government in his various
capacities relating to fair competition, media freedom,
personal privacy, consumer protection, healthcare, transport,
human rights and democracy development.
Mr Mok is the founding
chairman of Internet Society, Hong Kong Chapter (ISOC
HK), and the ex-officio member and immediate past president
of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF).
He was also a past chairman and a co-founder of the
Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA).
Mr Mok is the Chairman
of Snappa International Limited, a leading provider
of mobile media and marketing technology and services.
He is also a director of Computancy Limited and Globe
Technology Development Limited. Previously, Mr Mok was
the Deputy Managing Director and a co-founder of HKNet
Company Limited, one of Hong Kong's first Internet service
providers, that was acquired by NTT Communications of
Japan in 1999.
Mr Mok is a member of
many key Hong Kong government statutory bodies or advisory
committees, including the Committee on Economic Development
and Economic Cooperation with the Mainland of the Commission
on Strategic Development, Consumer Council, Digital
21 Strategy Advisory Committee, Hospital Authority,
Transport Advisory Committee and Non-Local Higher and
Professional Education Appeal Board. He is also the
Vice Chairman of the Support Services Development Committee
of the Hospital Authority and the Vice Chairman of the
Competition Policy Committee of the Consumer Council.
Previously, Mr Mok was a part-time member of the Central
Policy Unit and Trade and Industry Advisory Board. Mr
Mok was elected as a member of the First (1998) and
Second (2000) Election Committee for the Legislative
Council, IT Subsector.
Internationally, Mr Mok
sits on the Policy Advisory Board of dotMobi, the operator
for ".mobi," the sponsored top level domain
operator dedicated for mobile Internet. He also sits
on the advisory boards of several other technology startups.
Mr. Mok graduated from
Purdue University in the United States with Bachelor
and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering. Previously,
he was with SunSoft Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation
in the United States. In 1999, he was awarded as one
of Hong Kong's "Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons".
He has been writing extensively on technology and management,
currently appearing regularly in the Hong Kong Economic
Journal, the Sun, and CUP magazine.
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