An independent panel should be set up to discuss how information technology can be used to improve competitiveness, the Government was told.
The call came in a unanimously endorsed motion tabled by Choy So-yuk of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance.
Ms Choy said a more forward-looking, comprehensive and feasible blueprint on information was warranted to bring Hong Kong to the forefront of the 'global information society'.
'The proposed high-level body should provide community-wide co-ordination; encourage the participation of the information technology organisations in the public and private sectors; and propel the whole community into information projects which straddle the next century,' she said.
Although Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa has pledged that one bureau secretary will lead and co-ordinate overall information technology development, many legislators shared Ms Choy's views that the Government had not done enough.
Alliance chairman Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen said Hong Kong now lagged behind other countries in developing an information technology infrastructure.
