The monthly Pan-Asian Civics roundup from Ketagalan Media summarizes key developments concerning public participation, civic engagement, and democracy. Our international team of correspondents report on stories from Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.
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This feature is compiled by Kevin Hsu, Judith Huang, and Lydia Siu and edited by Kevin Hsu.
Kevin Fan Hsu is Lecturer in the d.school (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) and the Program on International Policy Studies at Stanford University, where he co-founded the Human Cities Initiative. He also crafts open online courses with a social mission at Skyship Design (www.skyshipdesign.net)
Judith Huang’s first novel, Sofia & The Utopia Machine, was on the Epigram Book Fiction Prize 2017 shortlist. A three-time winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award, she graduated from Harvard University. She has published in Prairie Schooner, Asia Literary Review, QLRS, Cha and many anthologies.
Lydia Kit-wah Siu holds an M.Phil in anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was previously a researcher consulting on the Central Police Station Project. She now works as a qualitative researcher, running focus groups, ethnographic studies and interviews.
