In 2012 and 2014, The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) allocated US Government to the
National Democratic Institute (NDI) for the development of an Internet portal and
online platforms which were used by their recipients to arrange, coordinate and
support the Occupy Central protests.
The funds were allocated for use in the Design Democracy Hong Kong Project and one of
the platforms which was used to coordinate and support the Occupy Central
protests was the Design Democracy Hong Kong Facebook page.
One of the enduring images of the Occupy Central protests
was the ‘spontaneous’ appearance of dozens of school children coming out in
support of the protests, but as with many things about Occupy Central, not
everything was what it seemed.
Gardenia KWOK
Gardenia KWOK (G.K.
on Facebook) was the Design Democracy Hong Kong Facebook Administrator, hired specifically to maintain the Facebook page during the Occupy Central protests.
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| Gardenia KWOK, Design Democracy Hong Kong Facebook Administrator for the Occupy Central Protests |
Design
Democracy School Talk
On 3 June 2014, a
photograph of Gardenia KWOK with a ‘red nose’ and the text: 2nd talk
for Design Democracy HK was posted by the Design Democracy Hong Kong港人講普選 Facebook page, accompanied
by the following text:
搞掂 Discovery College 個talk. tried
so hard to impress kids! 起碼俾咗少少background d international 學生香港發生咩事。
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| Facebook post by Gardenia KWOK on a school talk at Discovery College on 3 June 2016. Note the comment by Jennifer Anne Eagleton (circled in red) |
Comment
Under Section 84 (1) (m), Regulations of the Education
Ordinance, Cap 279, the Chief Executive in Council may make regulations
providing for the control of the dissemination of information, or expression of
opinion, of a clearly biased political nature in schools. See link to Education Ordinance
Reference
Facebook. Design Democracy Hong Kong Facebook
post. School talk given at Discovery College by Gardenia
KWOK on 3 June 2016.
