A STUDENT-LED CONFERENCE

GIN852

ABOUT

GIN, or the Global Issues Network, is composed of passionate students who work together to tackle global issues in their communities.

GIN852 strives to provide a platform for students from schools across Hong Kong to join and collaborate with each other in engaging with the social and environmental challenges our populated and urbanised city faces.

The next GIN852 conference will be held at Discovery College, December 1 & 2 2017. It's a great opportunity for middle/senior high school students to join together to learn about, and act upon global issues locally. The event aims to provide students with a direct insight into global issues in a Hong Kong context.

Part listening, part contributing, students will be involved in developing understanding of, and contributing to plans for taking action on these issues.

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Schedule

16:15

opening ceremony

Issues challenge

16:50

08:30 - 09:00

practical activities

13:00

check in @ KGV school

13:15

plenary

workshops

13:30 - 15:00

Dec 1

Dec 2

Plenary

19:00

dismissal

19:30

closing remarks

15:30

registration

16:00

dinner

18:30

storytelling

plenary

Workshops

Registration

2 Tin Kwong Road

Ho Man Tin,

Kowloon,

Hong Kong

king George v school

38 Siena Avenue

Discovery Bay,

New Territories,

Lantau Island

discovery college

Event Partners

仁愛之家

Home of Love

Mr Aime Girimana is a recognized refugee and has been staying in Hong Kong and waiting for resettlement in another country for 10 years. He was a lawyer back in his home country. With a special permission from the HKSAR Immigration Department, he was allowed to work at Christian Action since two years ago.

Storytellers

Aime Girimana

David Bishop is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and Fudan University, Shanghai. Mr. Bishop is also the founder or co-founder of multiple social businesses in Hong Kong, including Soap Cycling, a non-profit employing used hotel soap to enhance the lives of disadvantaged communities around Asia, and Fair Employment Agency, a non-profit employment agency focused on overcoming the exploitation of migrant laborers.

David Bishop

Francis Ngai is the Founder and CEO of Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk, www.sv-hk.org), a

venture philanthropy organisation dedicated to inspire, invent, incubate and invest in social innovation

since 2007.

SVhk has over 20 portfolio social ventures, including Diamond Cab, Green Monday, Light Be and Playtao Education. With the vision of "Innovating Social Change", SVhk aims to aggregate good minds and efforts in the society, and re-imagine our city with innovative Business 2.0 solutions.

Prior to establishing SVhk, Francis was the Head of Strategy in a listed technology conglomerate in Hong Kong. He is now also a column writer, public speaker and advocate of Business 2.0. He graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and was conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the University in 2013. He was selected as one of the 100 Asia Pioneers by The Purpose Economy in 2014, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2012 and one of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2011.

Francis Ngai

Keynote Speakers

A discourse on universal design and its prevalence in Hong Kong. We invite you to listen to our stories of hostile architecture and the problems that occur because of it.

Jane Goodall Institute

jane

goodall

institute

Community mapping is the practice of identifying positive and negative aspects of one’s local community and devising solutions to implement change. We at the Jane Goodall Institute believe that local community change can inspire a global movement to follow suit. Community mapping was designed to provide people with a platform in which they can communicate concerns and praise for community features.

sam

inglis

"Sam Inglis is a geoscientist who graduated from Shatin College in 2009. He holds an MSc in Climate Change & Risk Management from the University of Exeter, UK and has worked on glacial hazards, climate issues and transboundary water resources since 2012. He been campaigning for and researching environmental issues since he was sixteen, and is currently a consultant for the ADM Capital Foundation, working on water security issues and investigating wildlife crime in Hong Kong and broader Asia."

hope international development agency

Jonny Tate is the Founder and Director of Hope International Development Agency, Hong Kong. Mr. Tate is also a teacher and a member of the Community Engagement Team at Discovery College.

Hope Hong Kong's mission is to "Extend compassion to the neglected poor by giving to help provide clean water, sustainable food supplies, good health, education and skills, and improved income."

We accomplish our mission by enabling people in Hong Kong to connect with people in the poorest communities on earth through compassionate giving and other opportunities to help.

Hope International Development Agency, Hong Kong exists to improve the supply of basic human necessities for the neediest of the needy in the developing world through self-help activities and to challenge, educate, and involve people in Hong Kong regarding development issues.