BCS Hong Kong Section

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BCS (Hong Kong Section)
Founded 1991
Type Professional Organisation & Local Section of the British Computer Society
Focus Information and Communications Technology
Area served
Hong Kong
Members
about 1000
Website www.bcs.org.hk

The BCS (Hong Kong Section) is an organization of Information Technologists. It was founded in 1991 [1] to create a platform to unite and communicate with its members in Hong Kong, and to create a professional presence for the BCS Headquarters. The Parent body BCS is the industry body for IT professionals and a Chartered Institute for Information Technology. Throughout the years, the Hong Kong Section has organized many activities for the members and also actively participated in both public and invited consultation of IT related matters initiated by the Government in Hong Kong. Currently, there are about 1,000 members attached to the Section.

Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

British Computer Society professional body and learned society that represents those working in information technology both in the United Kingdom and internationally

The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology and Computer Science, both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Founded in 1956, BCS has played an important role in educating and nurturing IT professionals, computer scientists, computer engineers, upholding the profession, accrediting chartered IT professional status, and creating a global community active in promoting and furthering the field and practice of computing.

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  1. "About BCS (Hong Kong Section)". Archived from the original on 2009-12-12. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

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