This is the end of Hope in Crisis season 1! Thank you all for staying with us on the podcast!We collected a few questions from our audiences for Sean and Renee. Let's hear them out!🎤

What did we ask?

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Michael Chou is the founder of Daodu.tech, a subscription newsletter about technology and its impact in Traditional Chinese. It is now the most trusted tech analysis in Taiwan. In this episode, we talked about the ever increasing power of big tech companies and how those power has affected our life as an individual.

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Carol Lin is a Distinguished Professor at National Chao Tung University, she is specialized in Criminal Law & Procedure, White Collar Crime, Feminist Jurisprudence and technology law. In this episode, we talked about the inequality existing in the modern world and the gap between our law and the social norms.

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Social media is violating our rights and privacy through it gaining power. It was no doubt that our democracy and our rights to the future are constantly destroyed by its algorithm. Hope in Crisis had our first live podcast event on Dec. 29th, invited 50+ participants to the screening of The Social Dilemma and we has a live podcast discussion around the documentary after the screening.

*Professor Chia is the assistant professor of Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipei Medical University and the board member of .Taiwan Human Rights Association

*The Social Dilemma is one of the documentaries you must see this year. Launched by Netflix, the documentary-drama hybrid documentary reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

Terence Leong (Terry) is a music producer and record executive. He is the Group CCO of KKBOX Group, Co-Founder of KKFARM and OURSONG. KKBOX Group is the parent company of KKBOX , KKFARM, KKSTREAM. It’s Taiwan’s largest media technology firm. After talking to Terry, we learned that he is not just an artist, he is also a deep thinker on rights and the evolution of music industry.

What is OurBeat ( the tool we mentioned in this episode): https://bitmark.com/projects/ourbeat/

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Tim Chen is the Chief Organizer of Taiwan Homeschool and founder of Taiwan Homeschool Advocates, he has been promoting home education since 2003 in Taiwan and has also been advocating education choice since 2007.He started home education when his daughter was only 5 in 2003.

In this episode, we talked about what homeschooling is, the problem of education, and the choices of future education.

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New music, new cover art - Hope in Crisis is ready for 2021!

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Jerry Liu is a former diplomat of Taiwan. He worked in Taiwan’s representative office in Los Angeles and Taiwan's embassy in Palau. He is currently the director of International Affairs at New Power Party. In this episode, Jerry shared his experience as a diplomat of Taiwan - what challenges have them faced? He also talked about the future of diplomacy, and how technology is affecting modern diplomacy.

Mary is a reporter at Quartz  based in Hong Kong, where she covers geopolitics, tech, and business. She previously worked as a freelance journalist, covering political, socioeconomic, cultural, and urban issues. Since last June, Mary started to cover the first hand news from Hong Kong. In this episode we will learn about how democracy is dismantling under the combination of authoritarian and big tech companies, and most importantly, how Hong Konger and the rest of the world can see hope in this crisis.

Alfred Lin is the former leader of KMT (The Nationalist Party) youth league. He is experienced in International History, Cross-strait relations, Politics of Mainland China and Taiwan, Democratization of Mainland China and Taiwan's Policy on National Security and Reform of National Army. Alfred Lin is now the co-author of New Republic Report. In This episode, we invited Alfred to talk about digitizing KMT, information warfare and his national identity.

Hsiao A (蕭新晟) used to worked in startup as a software engineer. He started Taiwan National Treasure, a project digitizing and translating Taiwan's history documents in the US National Archive. This project connect him deeply to Taiwan. He joined New Power Party and came back to Taiwan at 2018 to run for Taipei city council.

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