What a Hong Kong business should understand about taking AI into the Greater Bay Area — cross-boundary data and the GBA Standard Contract.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Expanding AI operations into the Greater Bay Area from Hong Kong means dealing with two data regimes. Here is what a Hong Kong business should understand.
Two regimes, not one
Hong Kong (the PDPO) and mainland China (PIPL, under the CAC) are separate. Data processed in Hong Kong falls under the PDPO; data from the mainland is subject to PIPL on that leg. Never assume one covers the other.
The facilitation route
The Greater Bay Area Standard Contract facilitates in-scope cross-boundary personal-data transfers from the mainland into Hong Kong, extended to all sectors from November 2024.
Designing AI for the GBA
Keep clarity about where data is processed and which regime applies, and design the AI pipeline accordingly. 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.