Labor Shortfall in Hong Kong’s IT Industry
Hong Kong is not only an international city where both Western and Eastern cultures merrily coexist, but also a dynamic society receptive to innovation and sophisticated technology. For example, Hong Kong was one of the first societies worldwide to implement (in 1993) a totally digital telecommunications backbone where the domestic network was fiber and international calls were transmitted via fiber, microwave and satellite. Another such example is on average each person in Hong Kong owns a mobile telephone, now estimated at over six million sets.