PRAISE-HK won the Asia Smart App Award: Public Sector and Social Innovation - Gold Award
Empowering the public with personalized air quality and exposure health risk information, the PRAISE-HK app won the Asia Smart App Award: Public Sector and Social Innovation - Gold Award.
The PRIASE-HK app stood out among more than 140 entries and received the recognition from the Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA) and its partners for the efforts to promote public health with social innovation.
Institute for the Environment (IENV), the team creating PRAISE-HK is grateful for the opportunity to showcase their efforts and introduce the app to Mrs. Lowell CHO, Assistant Head of Create Hong Kong. Winning this award is a testament to their dedication to combining multidisciplinary technologies to improve public health and wellness. Congratulations to PRAISE-HK again!
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (https://hkust.edu.hk/) is a world-class research intensive university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. Over 80% of our research work were rated “Internationally excellent” or “world leading” in the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee. We were ranked 3rd in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2022, and our graduates were ranked 23rd worldwide and among the best from universities from Asia in Global Employability University Ranking and Survey 2021.
