OpenCertHub, the Big Data examination and certification platform for Apache projects held their launch ceremony and forum yesterday. To commemorate this special occasion, the organizer was delighted to have Mr. Tony WONG, JP, Assistant Government Chief Information Officer (Industry Development), Hon. Charles Peter MOK, JP, Legislative Councillor (I.T.), Ir. Anthony Chan, Senior Manager of Ecosystem and Collaboration Team of Cyberport, Ir. Peter T. C. Yeung, MHKCS, Head of Electronics & ICT Clusters, Smart City Platform of HKSTP, Dr. Martin SZETO, Chief Operating Officer of ASTRI, Mr. CHIA Pun Kok Herbert, Venture Partner of Sequoia Capital China Fund, Ms. Anna LIN, JP, FCILT, Chief Executive of GS1 Hong Kong, Dr. CHARM Ka Ieong Toa, Chairman of OpenCertHub, Ms. CHIU Lai-kuen, Susanna, MH, JP, Former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Mr. Stephen K. M. LAU, JP Distinguished FHKCS, Secretary General (Honorary) of Hong Kong Computer Society, together with the other guests to open the curtain of the event.

無論你係準備搵工嘅畢業生，抑或係喺職場打滾多年嘅老前輩，有時都可能會想讀多幾個課程，考多幾個證書 / 牌照，好好增值自己。而呢個時候要考慮嘅係，到底現今社會有乜嘢知識技能，係比較有前景？而我認為，大數據 (Big Data) 會係一個大方向，我身邊有位朋友，都自學研究 Big Data。不過，好似我朋友呢啲自學完出嚟，出到嚟見工點證明自己識呢樣嘢？OpenCertHub 就首推 CPFA (Certified Professionals For Apache projects) 大數據技能考試平台，為大數據及開源技術人才認證數據智商，幫助個人職業發展。

開源技術近年受到大量知名企業廣泛應用，如谷歌、臉書、領英、阿里巴巴、騰訊、百度等等，而全球最大與最具影響力的開源軟件組織則非 Apache Software Foundation （Apache）莫屬。在 Apache 創始貢獻者裡面，大部分是歐美數據企業，但記者發現原來我們香港「本地薑」 - 科研公司 EmblocSoft 的專業能力也獲得 Apache 的認可，成為 Apache Hadoop 創始貢獻者之一，而 EmblocSoft 更是唯一一家亞洲機構獲得此榮耀。