As my four-year term as the founding editor of the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI ISSN 1798-0461) ends in Feb 2013, it gives me great pleasure to introduce my longtime friend and colleague Dr. Simon Fong as the next Editor-in- Chief of JETWI. Dr. Fong is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau and among the founding members of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Techn…