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莫乃光(Charles Peter Mok Nai-kwong),1964年10月25日在香港出生,太平紳士,香港資訊科技界專業人士及前立法會議員,2012年至2020年間代表資訊科技界功能界別出任立法會議員。
他自1990年代初起積極參與資訊科技及互聯網業界事務,是香港互聯網協會(Internet Society 香港分會)的創會會長及創會主席,亦是香港互聯網服務供應商協會的創會成員及前任主席、香港資訊科技商會榮譽主席,並為公共專業聯盟的創會副主席及前主席。他亦曾於2002年至2004年出任香港互聯網註冊管理有限公司(負責.hk頂級域名管理)的董事,並在國際互聯網名稱與數碼地址分配機構的亞太區域參與架構中擔任主席,長期推動互聯網開放標準及數碼共融。1999年,他獲選為香港十大傑出數碼青年。
2012年,他循資訊科技界功能界別當選立法會議員,並於2016年連任,其間關注個人私隱、開放數據、言論自由及網絡安全等議題,曾出任立法會資訊科技及廣播事務委員會主席及副主席,亦曾任民主派會議召集人。他亦長期在報章撰寫專欄,評述資訊科技發展。其後他離開香港,現居美國加州,並繼續從事資訊科技政策研究與倡議工作。
English
Charles Peter Mok Nai-kwong, born in Hong Kong on 25 October 1964, is a Justice of the Peace, an information technology professional and a former member of the Legislative Council who represented the information technology functional constituency from 2012 to 2020. From the early 1990s he was active in IT and internet industry affairs: he was the founding chairman of the Internet Society Hong Kong chapter, a founding member and past chairman of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, and a founding vice-chairman and former chairman of the Professional Commons. He also served from 2002 to 2004 as a director of the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation, which manages the .hk top-level domain, and chaired the Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organisation within ICANN, long promoting open internet standards and digital inclusion. In 1999 he was named one of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Digital Youth. In 2012 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the information technology functional constituency and was re-elected in 2016, following issues such as personal privacy, open data, freedom of expression and cybersecurity, chairing and vice-chairing the council's information technology and broadcasting panel, and serving as convenor of the pro-democracy caucus. He also wrote a long-running newspaper column on developments in information technology. He later left Hong Kong and now lives in California in the United States, continuing work on IT policy research and advocacy.