The mobile app "HKcBirds: Common Birds of Hong Kong", developed by Dr YIP Chi Lap, Beta and Dr WONG Ka Yan, Ivy from the Department of Computer Science at HKU, was awarded as one of the top 10 winning apps at the "2018 Meritorious Websites Contest and Healthy Mobile Phone/ Tablet Apps Contest". The contest, which was organized by the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (OFNAA), aims to encourage young people to browse healthy websites and recognize the contributions of healthy websites producers and Apps developers.
The App "HKcBirds: Common Birds of Hong Kong" is jointly developed by the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society since 2014. It was under the 2013/14 project titled "Birds of Hong Kong in Your Hands" supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund, with Dr. YIP Chi Lap, Beta as the Project coordinator.
"HKcBirds: Common Birds of Hong Kong" is free downloadable from Google Play or the App Store.
For more information of the project, please visit the project website at http://www.cs.hku.hk/~hkbirds/
Results of the "2018 Meritorious Websites Contest andHealthy Mobile Phone/ Tablet Apps Contest" can be viewed at https://www.merit.gov.hk/eng/result.php.
