Founded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1989, GS1 Hong Kong is the local chapter of GS1®, a not-for-profit, standards organisation that develops and drives adoption of easy-to-implement global standards for business to uniquely identify, accurately capture and automatically share vital information about products, locations and assets. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, GS1 has 115 national chapters serving 150 economies globally.

GS1 Hong Kong's mission is to empower business to grow and to improve efficiency, safety, authenticity and sustainability across multiple sectors and facilitates commerce connectivity through the provision of a full spectrum of platforms, solutions and services based on our global standards. We provide a trusted foundation for accurate, sharable, searchable and linkable data. Our EPC standard lays the foundation for IoT, powering a range of IoT-based services and applications. We are helping industry to meet the challenges of omni-channel commerce and create a seamless customer experience. By engaging with communities of trading partners, industry organisations, government, and technology providers, we are fostering a collaborative ecosystem and aiming for "Smarter Business, Better Life".

Currently, GS1 Hong Kong has around 8,000 corporate members covering close to 20 industries including retail consumer goods, food and food services, healthcare, apparel, logistics as well as information and technology.

For more information about GS1 Hong Kong, please visit www.gs1hk.org^[1].

About HKABAEIMA:

Hong Kong Alliance of Built Asset & Environment Information Management Associations (HKABAEIMA) is founded by three associations [i.e., Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (HKGISA), Hong Kong Institute of Civil and Building Information Management (HKICBIM) and The Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling (HKIBIM)] which are specialised in Information Management for Built Asset and Environment industries.

The Alliance forms a platform to gather all experts and professionals in Information Management for sharing their experience and collaborating to develop cross-discipline information flow for a better integration of the use of information within our built asset industry and realize the full societal, environmental and economic benefits of open sharable infrastructure and building asset information into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. Our vision is to proactively facilitate the active use and dissemination of open data standards enabling infrastructure and building asset data and lifecycle processes to improving the value achieved from investments in built assets and enhance opportunities for growth in the following levels:

(1) Industry level: To connect information management communities across built asset and environment industries.

(2) Society level: To serve society by building capacity, sharing experience and enabling information exchange.

(3) Global level: To drive digital transformation in line with global development.

The openBIM approach promoted by buildingSMART targets to enhance interdisciplinary communication using industry-standard exchange methodologies and streamline the information sharing and collaboration process. HKABAEIMA sees the openBIM potential and opens an opportunity to local and global practitioners to learn, to share and to interchange with each other to empower the development of a sustainable BIM roadmap.

Currently, HKABAEIMA cum Hong Kong Chapter of buildingSMART have more than 30 members that are corporations, educational institutions, or societies. GS1 HK is one of our Corporation Members and our associations currently have more than 2,000 members since established in November 2019.

For more information about HKABAEIMA, please visit www.hkabaeima.org^[2]

References

1. ^{^} www.gs1hk.org (www.gs1hk.org)
2. ^{^} www.hkabaeima.org (www.hkabaeima.org)