News from GITPA (November 2021)

GITPA X EMSD Staff Club FIFA 21 E-sports Tournament

To select four players representing GITPA for the “FIFA 21 E-sports Tournament Grand Finals”, GITPA held a series of selection matches on 17 November 2021. Ziv CHEONG and Walter NG, won three rounds in a row with the highest score of nine points, followed by Samuel YUEN and Neo KONG who scored six points with the second-highest score. These four outstanding players will represent GITPA to compete with the representatives of EMSD Staff Club on the stage of the Cyberport’s Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum 2021 (DELF2021)! All the best in the grand finals!

Left to Right: Walter NG (DH), Samuel YUEN (HKPF), Ziv CHEONG (DH), Neo KONG (HKO

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News from GITPA (October 2021)

GITPA X EMSD Staff Club FIFA 21 E-sports Tournament

For the first time, GITPA will co-organise the “FIFA 21 E-sports Tournament” with the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) Staff Club! Players of the tournament will be competing in the popular football simulation video game, FIFA 21. Four players representing GITPA will compete against representatives from EMSD Staff Club in a single-elimination tournament finals in the Cyberport’s Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum 2021 (DELF2021) at Arcade@Cyberport! To select the four GITPA representatives for the grand finals during DELF2021, GITPA will arrange a series of selection matches in November. Stay tuned for our updates in the next issue!

In addition to e-sports, football lovers are also welcomed to join the AP Football WhatsApp Group. On 25 October, we had a friendly football match with the EO Football Team and the match ended in a 3:3 draw. Colleagues who are interested to join the AP Football Whatsapp Group can contact Mars YU (2835 2204) or Alfred TO (2844 9980) for details.

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News from GITPA (September 2021)

MOONCAKE PURCHASE DISCOUNT OFFER

Distance cannot keep us apart from our beloved ones or stop us from sending our love and care across.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, many people have not been able to gather with their beloved ones or family during festivals.  In view of this, GITPA and Instagram illustrator Tom Choy Ho hope that through digital portraits, families who are separated can gather together in a portrait again.

For the first time, GITPA and illustrator Tom have jointly held a Mid-Autumn Festival Paintings for Charity event.  By donating to a charity that provides social services for the elderly, colleagues can get a unique portrait of them and their loved ones for the Mid-Autumn Festival.  It is hoped to encourage members to send kindness and blessings to others and the elderly during the festival with meaningful portraits as commemoration. 

All portraits were delivered to our members who have donated.  Hope that they like their own unique portraits.  We would like to thank all members for your continual support and participation to make this charity event successful!

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News from GITPA (August 2021)

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

Congratulations to the Hong Kong, China Delegation in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games! The delegation produced the best results in Hong Kong history by bringing home a total of six medals at the Tokyo Olympics including one gold, two silver and three bronze in fencing, swimming, table tennis, karate and track cycling. For the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, the delegation has won two silver and three bronze in table tennis, boccia, and badminton. The delegation displayed their extraordinary capability at the Tokyo Games and achieved the city’s best results in history, with a number of them breaking Hong Kong records or their own records in the competition. The GITPA ExCo would like to extend our best wishes and support to athletes in Hong Kong in the coming competitions.

AP Grade Football Interest Group

A group of colleagues with a passion for football is actively forming a football interest group within the AP grade. We sincerely invite colleagues who are interested to join the AP Grade Football Whatsapp group to meet friends and play football together in their spare time. Please contact Alfred TO (2844 9980) or Mars YU (2835 2204) for details.

As the Premier League begins, which also means that the official game Fantasy Premier League is about to start. Fantasy Premier League is a game in which participants assemble an imaginary team of real-life footballers and score points based on those players’ actual statistical performance or their perceived contribution on the field of play. Colleagues who are interested can click on the link below to join our own league:

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News from GITPA (July 2021)

MOONCAKE PURCHASE DISCOUNT OFFER

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.  GITPA ExCo would like to take this opportunity to wish all colleagues a joyful festival with your beloved family! 

This year, we continue to arrange mooncake offers  for members to select and celebrate with families under the beautiful full moon.  Apart from the traditional ones like Haagen-Dazs, Taipan and Saint Honore Cake Shop, we have introduced new popular brands including Mandarin Cake Shop and Patisserie La Lune, providing a total of over 40 choices of mooncakes.  With the overwhelming response from members, we have received a record-breaking amount of orders for 281 boxes of mooncakes!  Thank you very much for your continual support.  Members who have placed order will be receiving the redemption coupons from us soon.  Please stay tuned to our further notice!

COMING ACTIVITIES

GITPA ExCo will continue to help maintain Work-Life Balance for members.  We are gearing up for the activity plan with a bunch of exciting activities to enrich and liven up your spare time throughout the year!  Please stay tuned to our invitation email for more details.  See you there!

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News from GITPA (June 2021)

GREETINGS FROM THE NEW GITPA EXCO

At the beginning of the new term, we wish to take this opportunity to thank members and friends of GITPA for your support and participation.  Members are more than welcome to contact us to express your views and convey ideas on matters relating to the Analyst/Programmer Grade.

The new ExCo will continue to prepare a variety of recreational activities for you.  Further updates will be announced in upcoming GITPA news, the GITPA Blog on Knowledge & Information Collaborative Platform (KICP) and our website: gitpa.org.hk.  Stay tuned!

MEETING WITH OGCIO GRADE MANAGEMENT

The meeting between GITPA and OGCIO Grade Management was held on 5 May 2021.  We discussed several topics which our members most concerned about, as highlighted below –

• We noticed some colleagues had resigned recently and showed our concerns. According to information collected by Grade Management, the majority of the reasons for the resignation given were personal reasons.
• In response to our enquiry whether more APIIs would be recruited to fill the vacancies left by those who had resigned in recent months, Grade Management assured that sufficient number of eligible candidates had been selected for appointment and waiting list in the APII recruitment exercise conducted this year to fill the vacancies. It was expected that the vacancies, including those arising from recent resignation cases, would be filled and new APIIs would start to report duty later this year. 
• Concerning colleagues who leave the service, we requested Grade Management to issue posting order earlier as possible before officers started their leave.
• We suggested Grade Management to inform all colleagues upon the commencement of the annual deployment planning exercise so that colleagues could take the opportunity to discuss their deployment plans with line management. Grade Management has sent the email for the exercise 2021/22 to all APIs and APIIs on 21 June 2021.

The full minutes had been uploaded to the OGCIO portal (link to download) and we encourage you to provide any feedback and suggestion to us for our next meeting with Grade Management.

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News from GITPA (May 2021)

2021 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The 2021 GITPA Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on 12 May 2021 (Wednesday).  In the meeting, the ExCo gave an account of GITPA’s work as well as the financial position in the past year.  The motion to waive the membership renewal fee for our existing annual members (2020) for the year 2021 has been passed, and the new ExCo 2021-22 has been duly elected.  We would like to thank all members for your support and participation to make this AGM successful!  Let’s meet our new ExCo for 2021-22.

Left to Right: (back) Davy CHAN, Angus TAM, Richard WONG, Oscar U, Daniel MOK, Holman TAI, Eva LEE, Agnes LO,
Janice TANG(resigned on 2021-06-28), Mars YU, Alfred TO, Theo CHU, Winston LEUNG, Ted WONG (front) Kelvin KWOK, Julian YUEN, Nicole WONG, PC WAI (not in photo) Arran LAI

For detail list of ExCo 2021-22 committee and supporting members, please visit: https://gitpa.org.hk/gitpa-executive-committee-2021-22/

Based on the works and experiences gained over the past year and drawing reference to the issues that members are most concerned about, our new ExCo will continue to embrace views from members and represent members to liaise with management on Grade matters and to organise activities for members, serving as the bridge of communication and for connecting colleagues.

In order for us to serve you better and continuously improve our services to you, we need new inputs and new ideas from you.  Please feel free to let us have your views on various issues.  We also look forward to seeing you in our upcoming activities and events!

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News from GITPA (April 2021)

GITPA Newsletter 2020/21

GITPA Newsletter 2020/21 has been published!  In this issue, you can know more about GITPA’s work from the summary of activities for last year.  The five featured interviews covered in the Newsletter provided a glimpse of what OGCIO did in 2020 for the fight against COVID-19, including the struggles and obstacles colleagues faced and how they overcame them.  The stories showcased a recollection of what we have been through, which our readers can resonate with and get inspired.

You can access the Newsletter via the following URL on KICP:

https://dp2.ogcio.ccgo.hksarg/kmapp/kicp/download?module=blog&file_id=1230&fname=newsletter202105.pdf

Enjoy reading!

GITPALEAKS

In view of the large group of APIIs recruited in 2020 batch, two online GITPALeaks sessions were held and the second one was completed on 30 April 2021.  They were interactive sessions in which colleagues could participate through polling platform to express their feeling and raise questions.  We had very good sharing on posting arrangement, prospect and welfare, etc.  Thanks to our AP Grade new joiners again for their enthusiastic support and participation, and we look forward to meeting you all again in our future activities!

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News from GITPA (March 2021)

GITPA Annual General Meeting

The GITPA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on 12 May 2021 (Wednesday) at Conference Room 1509 (15/F, Wanchai Tower).  Apart from electing the next Ex-Co for year 2021-22, a motion will be proposed to waive the membership renewal fee for the existing annual members for 2021.

In view of the current pandemic situation, there will be no annual dinner this year.  Meanwhile, a prize presentation to the winner of the 40^th Anniversary Logo Competition will be held right after the AGM.

All GITPA members are cordially invited to attend the AGM as your participation is instrumental to the success of GITPA.  If you cannot attend the meeting, please kindly send us your proxy form.  Details will be sent out soon through email.

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