Tech innovator uses AI to rebuild David Webb’s Hong Kong database

Keith Li King-wah, co-founder and principal trainer of Allytic AI, announced on Facebook that he will use artificial intelligence to rebuild Webb-site, the Hong Kong corporate governance database created by the late activist David Webb over 27 years, aiming to bring it 'into the modern era' and 'shake off 27 years of tech debt.' The database, which aggregates public information on listed companies and other topics, was released into the public domain by Webb before his death, with the condition that the Webb-site brand name not be used.

Tech innovator uses AI to rebuild David Webb’s Hong Kong database Keith Li says he wants to bring database into the modern era using AI ‘and shake off 27 years of tech debt’ A tech entrepreneur has pledged to rebuild a free database created over nearly three decades by the late Hong Kong corporate governance activist David Webb, bringing it ‘into the modern era” with the help of AI. Keith Li King-wah, co-founder and principal trainer of Allytic AI, announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday that he would rebuild Webb-site’s database of 27 years with the use of artificial intelligence AI . announced https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3298427/hong-kong-activist-investor-shut-webb-site-data-platform-amid-battle-cancer?module=inline&pgtype=article?module=inline&pgtype=article months before his death that his website would shut down. “I won’t allow anyone to carry on Webb-site.com itself, because I would not want it potentially polluted or corrupted with clickbait, crypto-scams or worse, or used to advocate something of which I would not have approved,” he declared in a blog post last year. “The editorial side of it has to die with me.” The database aggregates publicly available information on a wide range of topics from the board compositions and reporting speed of listed companies to Hong Kong consumer prices and energy consumption trends. Li noted that under Webb’s instructions, the site’s data and programs were released into the public domain for free use, provided the Webb-site brand name was not used.