China and the internet are hitting the international agenda yet again as the Beijing Olympics draw near. That is a good moment to listen to our own internet guru Kaiser Kuo, former journalist, now director digital strategy at Ogilvy in Beijing. Taking on journalistic cliches about China, explaining how the internet is changing China in a dramatic way and how the outside world fails to understand those changes are some of his favorite subjects.
When you listen to this voice of reasons (like on the included video clip of June 2008), you realize that the 25,000 foreign journalists in Beijing and the IOC should have had a talk with him, before complaining about the censorship on China’s internet.
It is not too late. When you are interested in having Kaiser Kuo as a speaker, he joined the China Speakers Bureau and you can drop us a line to check out his availability.
