HKU Hosts the First Asian International Baccalaureate
World Student Conference

In view of the emergence of a great variety of online tools in a fast-changing digital world, HKU and the International Baccalaureate (IB) hosted a five-day conference themed ‘iResponsibility: Explore How We Engage in the Online World’ in August with the participation of 150 high-school students from all around the world.

This IB World Student Conference, the first in Asia, consisted of interactive sessions and workshops taught by industry leaders and academics, including HKU alumni who have successfully started their own social entrepreneurship projects. Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui remarked in the opening ceremony: “I hope you work together with your peers and learn from your mentors to use the power of social media to change this world for the better.”

In order to help high-school students master online tools of all kinds responsibly and positively, participants were not only given a chance to learn in a university environment, but also to discover the fast-paced, technology-savvy, 24/7 metropolis of Hong Kong through all sorts of activities and trips around the city, including interactive and inspiring tours of high-technology multimedia centres in Cyberport, a creative hub for digital content tenants. Participants then put what they had learnt in class into practice, by continuing to engage with each other through various social media platforms after the five-day conference was over.■