"Different from the existing Innovation and Technology Commission, which is a body to execute plans," said Stephan Lau, president of Hong Kong Computer Society. "The Technology and Innovation Bureau is expected to provide more strategy and policy planning." He added the Bureau can also help to forester regional industry collaboration like building integration with China and reciprocal certification programs within the region.

Following the announcement of , the roundtable forum also suggested the government to invest more resources to attract multinational corporations and organizations to establish data centers locally.

"Hong Kong's location is ideal for being a data center hub," added Sunny Lee, honorary advisor of HKCS. "Not only we have stable power supply, well connected network and established privacy law, we are also politically stable."

The strategy aims to create more job opportunities, improve quality of work and uplift the capability to innovate Hong Kong through technology. The OGCIO office currently runs a Data Center Facilitation Unit to assist data center operators to help investors to build data center facilities locally.