What the Digital Policy Office’s April 2025 Generative AI guideline covers for developers, providers and users in Hong Kong — advisory best practice, not statute.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Hong Kong’s Digital Policy Office issued a Generative AI Technical and Application Guideline in April 2025. It is advisory best practice, not statute — here is what it covers.
What the guideline is
Issued on 15 April 2025 by the Digital Policy Office (the government body that absorbed the former OGCIO in July 2024), it is a framework of best practices and operational guidance for the technology developers, service providers and users of generative AI. It is advisory, not law, and was developed with input from the local generative-AI research effort.
What it addresses
Application scope and limits, technical risks (data leakage, model bias, errors), and governance principles such as security and transparency, accuracy and reliability, and fairness. It advises that AI output not be used directly as a final professional deliverable and that sensitive data not be processed via insecure public AI services.
How to apply it
Use it alongside the PDPO and the PCPD’s AI Model Framework: ground AI in your own data for accuracy, keep humans reviewing output, and avoid putting sensitive data into public tools. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Hong Kong managed region (its nearest managed region is Japan). To keep data in Hong Kong, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Hong Kong cloud region such as AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1, Microsoft Azure East Asia (Hong Kong SAR) or Google Cloud asia-east2 (Hong Kong), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Hong Kong businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.