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Adrian Hong
Adrian Hong works to promote innovation and empower citizens with technology, smart government and an entrepreneurial approach to problems.
TED Senior Fellow Adrian Hong seeks to empower citizens and help create responsive, smarter organizations all over the world. Hong advises a number of city, state and national governments and agencies on strategic policy matters. In 2006, Hong was imprisoned then deported by Chinese authorities for his work helping North Korean refugees to escape to freedom. He also founded and curated the TEDxTripoli conference in 2012 after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
His current charitable projects include Indy Incubator, a pro bono effort aiding socially-conscious businesses and non-profits, Open Source Ecology, an open-source engineering effort with major implications for global development, and Lumoon Vision, an effort to bring vision care to underserved children in the developing world.
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