Prof. Wong, Po Choi is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He is a renowned leader in the use of IT in education and was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong SAR for his contributions to education in 2001.  In 1998, he led a joint university effort to develop the Hong Kong Cyber Campus (http://www.hkcampus.net), linking over 900 schools to the Internet.  In 2000, he helped the Education Department to build the Hong Kong Education City (http://www.hkedcity.net).  It became the flagship education portal in Hong Kong with millions of page views a day.  He led several award-winning projects including: VIOLA, a video-on-demand system on local area networks, Hong Kong School Net, an Internet for schools, students, and teachers, NetPlan (http://netplan.school.net.hk) - school network security support.  School Net won the IT Application Award in Education in 1998.  VIOLA won two US patents and the IT Excellence Award in 1999.  NetPlan won two Grand Linux Adoption Awards (SME and Education categories) organized by HKPC in 2003.  In 2004, Prof. Wong started another large scale project – VChina, a video conferencing network linking hundreds of schools in HK and China: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nanhai, Yunnan, Lazar of Tibet, Singapore, Sabah of Malaysia, New Zealand, etc.  VChina won the QEF Outstanding Project Award in April 2008 among thousands of projects.

 

Prof. Wong is now the Chairman of the Committee on Home-School Cooperation, leading 18 districts of parent-teacher associations to promote home-school cooperation and family education in Hong Kong.  He also serves in a number of top government committees, including Education Commission, Family Council, and IT in Education Steering Committee.