Knowledge and the city is an important theme in Hong Kong at the moment, focused on the city as a space for learning and innovation. Over the next few weeks, two separate corporate events will chew over the concepts of the Smart City and the WiseCity. Then, of course, there is the ongoing Occupy movement, which is certainly reshaping learning and innovation throughout the territory. Informing the more formal parts of this activity is a Living Archives project at Malmö University funded by the Swedish Research Council (and brought to my attention by Waltraut Ritter at Knowledge Dialogues). The aim is to find new digital ways of recording what goes on in today’s cities. “The project aims to open the process of archiving to embrace contemporary practices associated with open data, mobile media, storytelling, gaming, and performance.” I’ve argued before for reaching back into Myanmar’s recent past and documenting what went on under a series of authoritarian regimes. But it’s also important to build a living archive of what’s happening in the current transitional period. At a time when Myanmar is going digital at a rapid rate, it would be great if a knowledge and the city initiative could be launched to capture the many different dimensions of its changing urban environments.