PCCW Global and PRISC Partner to Develop Smart City Technologies

PCCW Global today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong’s Policy Research Institute of Global Supply Chain (PRISC).

Together PCCW and PRISC will conduct high-level academic research in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, focusing on major projects involving smart city applications and infrastructure, as well as technologies such as the IoT, big data and cloud computing.

They will research areas including the dissemination of information combined with predictive and big data analytics, involving the application of emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and blockchain.

In a related development, PCCW Global and the Administration Committee of Hengqin New District recently signed a collaborative agreement to explore the prospect of building and operating AI training facilities, as well as demonstration and operation centers, in Hengqin in the Greater Bay area.

PCCW Global and PRISC intend to build a research and training center at Hengqin to facilitate high-level research, combining academic thinking with the wealth of technological and commercial know-how held by a global telecommunications provider.

The project will be overseen by PRISC’s Dr. George Ho (Principal Investigator), together with Dr. Collin Wong and Dr. Jack Wu at the School of Decision Sciences.