The art of the possible, the doable and the sustainable with Brian W Tang

In episode no. 81 my guest is Brian Tang, Founding Executive director of LITE Lab@HKU and Co-chair, Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA). We discuss:

• Career path (which will be interesting to law students);
• How he became involved with innovation in the law in Hong Kong;
• Main justice issues in Hong Kong;
• What LITE stands for, and why it is intentionally a “Lab”;
• How the Lab works with students from 6 out of the 10 faculties at Hong Kong University; 
• Topics and the experiential experiences that are covered in the Lab’s courses and why;
• How LITE Lab partners with tech start-ups, NGOs and in-house counsel to co-design research projects; 
• Examples of the innovative projects including workers compensation, low-income tenants, discrimination, womens’ rights, human trafficking and foreign workers;
• Cultural foundations of ‘pro bono’ and differences in approach across the world;
• Capacity and evolution of NGOs affecting their response to implement technology;
• Why Brian considers the LITE Lab a ‘marketplace’ of sorts;
• The criticism that undergrad courses and hackathons are not effective;
• The potential of low code/no code, including the ability to maintain software in-house;
• Need for integration with existing corporate and NGO systems;
• Issues of funding and software sustainability of applications developed by NGOs;
• Impact investing, ESG requirements and social entrepreneurs’ potential for the future;
• Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association’s (“ALITA”) mission;
• Categories of ALITA awards (closing soon!); and
• Brian’s definition of legal innovation!

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