From developing social service planning to understanding the residential distribution of members, we are making use of geographic information. The Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) of the government has a wealth of maps and data, which helps everyone display and visualize findings geographically, or combine other population, facility and environmental information to make decisions and do storytelling.

The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) has invited Spatial Data Office (SDO) and Geospatial Lab (GeoLab), established by the Development Bureau, to organize a tailor-made introductory workshop for social workers and researchers at social service organizations / civic groups, with the aim of applying the related skills into their work. Participants can also learn how to use the free open-source software QGIS for data processing, analysis and visualization.

As quota are limited, we allocate the quota with the following mechanism: 1. The registration is in time order; 2. More than one registration from the same organization is welcome; 3. If there are more than one registration from the same unit of an organization, priority will be given to those who registered earlier. If there are remaining spaces, the second registrant from that unit will be accepted, and so on.

Date: 16 December,2024(Monday)
Time: 3:00–5:00 pm
Venue: Geospatial Lab, Units 915-918,9/F, Tower 1, Millennium City 1,388Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon
Targets: Social workers and researchers at social service organizations / civic groups interested in geospatial data
Quota: 25

Please register here for participation. The deadline is 21st November,2024(Thursday). An email will be sent to successful applicants afterwards.

Content
1.    Introduction to CSDI Portal, spatial data and Geographic Information System (GIS)
   —  Demo on converting textual data to spatial data using CSDI’s GeoSpatialiser

2.    Hands-on experience: Assessing existing community facilities using QGIS
   —  Download data from the CSDI Portal
   —  Visualize data
   —  Compute population density and facilities per capita ratio
   —  Create a map layout

3.    Tour in Geospatial Lab with showcases and demonstrations

For any enquiries, please contact Mr. Ronald Yick, Officer at the Council’s Policy Research and Advocacy unit, at 2864 2906 / [email protected].