HKUST PPOL Newsletter Fall 2023

45 Student Achievements and Events MPM Students Won the Second Prize in Tsinghua International Case Analysis Competition of Public Policy on SDGs 2023 Congratulations to our MPM students (Tim Man Him Lo, Koby Lok Yin Wong, Bryant Wui Kwan Chan, and Moni Lixia Deng, Tim and Koby are acknowledged as the two best team members) who won the second prize in 2023’s Tsinghua International Case Analysis Competition of Public Policy on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), organized by China Case Center for Public Policy and Management, the School of Public Policy & Management and the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University. The award-winning project of this year, “Harnessing the Power of Open Data to Advance the Planning Effort in Local Communities—A Hong Kong Perspective” was supervised by Professor Xun WU, who guided the team in the project's strategic direction and writing the case study. This project showcased Hong Kong’s effort to apply open data to community planning, based on the assumption that open data would be one of the solutions to understanding Hong Kong’s progress in meeting SDG 11. Our students have won the prize for the second consecutive year. Last year’s winning project was “Salient Altar of Saline Alkali Land: Lessons from the Development of Agricultural Technology in Saline Alkali Land in the Yellow River Delta”. About Tsinghua International Case Analysis Competition of Public Policy on SDGs The Competition organized by Tsinghua University invites participants to focus on one of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) based on their research interests and experience. Participants will work in teams to investigate local community cases and find innovative public policy solutions for achieving SDGs.

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