The University of Hong Kong and Mainland's Shandong Academy of Sciences signed Tuesday a collaboration agreement for further research and development of Digital Evidence Search Kit (DESK).

The DESK, a multilingual computer forensics software, was originated from one of the collaboration projects between the university and the Hong Kong Police Force and was first launched in 2001.

It is designed to assist law enforcement agencies to examine, acquire, analysis, search and document the digital evidence of a computer system. It is a multilingual software which supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

According to the university, researchers from the university and the academy will work closely together under the agreement to further enhance and develop DESK with the rationale to better fit into the market of the Mainland in the near future.

Source: Xinhua