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The vast majority of businesses in Hong Kong are the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and the extent of their adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) is key to Hong Kong's development as a digital economy. Over the years, the Government and the ICT industry have joined hands to facilitate the wider adoption of ICT among SMEs. Through the OGCIO's Sector-specific Programme (SSP) and IT Training Programme for SMEs (ITTP), we have supported 22 projects for 16 business sectors [1] since 2004. To date, 21 projects have successfully completed, benefiting over 17,000 practitioners from SMEs. The remaining 1 project is in progress and expected to complete early 2014. Given SMEs' significance in Hong Kong's economy, OGCIO will continue to launch initiatives to enhance their adoption of ICT with a view to enhance their overall competitiveness.

A new round of SSP was launched in end May 2013. We aim to award the sponsorship within 2013 to kick off the implementation.

Remark 1: Namely travel agencies, medical and health, drugstores, accounting, beauty service, logistics, trade, watches and clocks, social service, supply chain, security, wholesale/retail, Chinese medicine practitioners, social enterprises, manufacturing and general industries.