“I think we Hongkongers can be very proud of our heritage. It is time for us to revive our own history, write our own story”

– Douglas Young, founder of GOD, Hong Kong

“It really underscores the importance of community involvement to good urban planning. preservation of localities and characteristics that make a city special, and which shouldn’t be taken for granted"

- Elizabeth Bosher, chairperson Project Chambers, Hong Kong

“I love what you do with the i-Discover app. It’s something so intimate and yet so informative.”

- Ritwajit Das, Chief Strategist South Asia - Global Call for Climate Action

“iDiscover encourages visitors to make their own stories and tread their own path. This connects them directly with the actual residents"

- Channa Daswatte, Chairman Galle Heritage Foundation

“If you want to mobilise a community, you need to recognise their roots”

- Benjamin Sin, Caritas Hong Kong

“This continues to be one of the best bottom-up, local heritage awareness efforts on the planet; and they keep adding more places”

- Donovan Rypkema, Heritage Strategies International, Washington DC

“To find the personality of a city we need to understand why certain spaces became places”

- Mariana Isa, Heritage Output Lab, Kuala Lumpur

“What iDiscover is doing is like making an archive of Hong Kong history – through the eyes of locals”

- Amy Tse, social worker Caritas, Hong Kong

“You are working in beautiful projects to make the community more connected and valued"

- Yvonne De Suner Beltran, Banyan Tree Hotels

“An award winning, community driven journey to explore local cultures in a new shared reality"

- Creative Business University Utrecht

“In our cities, which are increasingly cosmopolitan, we need to ensure that cultural diversity becomes an asset and not a handicap”

- Roland Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg