Thank you. Bye.

Yeah, thank you so much. Bye-bye.

That’s awesome. Thank you so much. I kept you up long enough, but I appreciate it.

Yes, indeed. Please stay safe and stay healthy.

Awesome. Let me write down these dates. Thank you so much. I think that will be it from me today. Thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule to speak with me today. Are you in Taipei right now?

That’s wonderful. You’re just going to be staying in DC during that time?

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for sharing the link as well. I will explore that in a bit. Are you coming to the US soon? I saw that you are giving a keynote.

Let me get that information for you. I can ask my teammates to help provide more information if that’s something you’re interested in.

Taiwan is really important to us, because Taiwan is the location that Human Rights Foundation picked for Asia region. Obviously, it’s very exciting to have Taiwan shown in the global spotlight regarding human rights and democracy. I think it’s great that Human Rights Foundation cares about Taiwan so much in ...

In addition to Mexico City, we also had one in New York City in October, which was exciting. Denise joined as well and she was a hit. She is doing wonderful. We also had other amazing activists, such as Eritrean activist Vanessa Berhe joined as well.

Our events typically receive a lot of major local and international media coverage, helping connecting our community of activists to any policy makers or entrepreneurs, engaging our range of sponsors and partners with the business community, with the civil society, and sparking dozens of new collaborations and projects. We’re hoping ...

We do indeed have one forum coming up in Mexico. That will be at the end of March. It’s quite exciting because last year was their first year in Mexico. I heard that it was a great success, so I’m looking forward to see how the Oslo Freedom Forum in ...

Wonderful. Thank you. This is great. Do you have any other questions or thoughts for me regarding Oslo Freedom Forum, or the Human Rights Foundation, or ideas on what our next steps can be?

Great. This is great. Yes, indeed, Taoyuan is quite easy to get to.

Thank you. This is helpful. For Taichung and Taoyuan, would you suggest that I reach out to their local city government?

Are there any other documents or acts that I should be referring to to share with my team as we continue this process?

Sorry, I’m just taking a few notes - although I do know this conversation will be published. We’re also interested in potentially setting up some sort of branch office or representative office in Taiwan. I’ve done a bit of research looking into the Ministry of the Interior, and at this ...

Stronger focus on brainstorming ways that we can give power to the people and further amplify voices for freedom .

I would love to go. I’ll check it out. I’ll stay updated to see if perhaps I can swing on over Taiwan to attend, because it does sound wonderful, especially given Taiwan’s angle and fight against disinformation, and also digital democracy. This is very fitting.

Will that be in Taiwan again this year?

OCF?

Regarding the Open Tech Forum, is that the name correct?

That’s good to know. Would you be interested in joining us again in any capacity or is there some specific capacity that you would like to be involved in?

Thank you. As you know, we are interested in coming back to Taiwan every year. I was wondering if you have any more ideas, or recommendations, or even potential ways that we can collaborate on a deeper level to strengthen our relationship.

This is great. I’ll keep that in mind. I do think it is important to get more youth activists, young leaders on the stage to share their story and also to help. I can definitely pass this message along. I am aligned with you on this.

Encourage more youth inclusion.

OK, great. Thank you so much for this input. This is very helpful. How did you think about last year’s forum? We were really grateful to have you join us.

OK, understand. Thank you so much. Do you recall last year we had our conference on Mid-Autumn Moon Festival? Did you think that was OK?

OK, got it. Let me make a note on that. Thank you so much.

No, not yet. Currently, we are in the process of finding a venue, but the time frame that we’re looking at is between September and November with a potential emphasis on November. I can definitely keep you updated as I did last year as well.

Yes, correct. We’re very excited to be coming back in 2020 and hopefully for years to come.

Thank you so much.

Oh, hi. Wonderful, thank you.

Let’s continue on that trajectory.

I’m excited to get this conversation going. I’m thrilled that the Oslo Freedom Forum is here. Speaking as a Taiwanese American, I think it’s so important. This platform really shows that Taiwan cares about human rights and democracy. It’s so rare for Taiwan to be seen by the international community, ...

No, I’m just very excited that we’re here...

Fantastic. Thank you.

They’re great. Their Twitter is great. Let’s think.

How to tweet.

Wonderful.

Wonderful. Thank you so much. Are there any other civil society organizations that we should be connecting with while we’re here, also ensuring that Taiwanese voices are heard on this international platform, and we have a conversation and dialog both ways?

That’s just an idea.

Let’s see. I think there’s a lot of opportunities. Obviously, you can help us with promotion. We’ve been doing these really cool unite moments onstage. Perhaps you can go on stage for a little bit and connect with one of our speakers, maybe with Audrey Mbugua. That’d be really cool.

Yeah.

Maybe we can have that on loop. There’s a lot of possibilities for not only our expo space, but also our breakouts.

We met with Women’s March Taipei the other day, and that was really exciting. We’ll try to get them involved. Outside of gender equality, we’re also talking with Taiwan Association of Human Rights, Eeling Chiu. She shared this really cool idea that maybe we can do. They have this 李明哲 ...

At breakouts, we’re going to talk about Hong Kong and Taiwan. Of course, we share this bond against China’s authoritarianism. We’re going to explore gender equality. We’re in really cool and exciting conversations with Taiwan’s Foundation of Women’s Rights Promotion and Development . We had a really exciting conversation, and ...

Yeah, definitely.

They’re really excited. They did this really cool popup in New York City called Wedding Banquet. Did you hear about that? Very cool. We’re trying to see if they could bring some of their aspects from that popup and bring it to our networking space. It’s really interactive and engaging. ...

Yes. They were a partner last year with us. They were in New York City for WorldPride. We had a chance to meet with them.