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Last Updated: 01/15/2015Hong Kong: Between Democracy and Autocracy
Raluca Batanoiu
Raluca Batanoiu reviews the issues and events around Hong Kong's "umbrella revolution", as last years student-led pro-democracy demonstrations have been called, and considers their implications for Beijing.
In March last year, The Economist published a special report on democracy, the greatest political aspiration of the previous century, which lately seems to have reached a deadlock. The British weekly publication discussed, among others, the case of China, as a global economic power, whose autocratic regime, against all expectations, has turned out to be successful, while various democratic countries have faced significant setbacks in the past fifteen years, particularly with the great failure in Iraq, and the shattered illusions of the Arab Spring.
According to the Pew Survey of Global Attitudes for 2013[1], 85% of the Chinese population expressed a favourable view of their country, unlike 31% of the Americans. The Economist also reported that in the past 30 years, China, in spite of censorship and tight control over her citizens, has managed to double the living standard of the population. Yet the aspiration for democracy, embodied by the desire for freedom of speech and governmental transparency, remains strong in China.[2] The most recent example is the case of Hong Kong, whose citizens took to the streets in 2014 to express their dissatisfaction with the incumbent government and to reject Beijing's preapproval of Hong Kong's election candidates.
Occupy Central Protests
Thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong at the end of August signalled, in a peaceful manner, their willingness to resist and oppose the government, reacting en masse to coverage in the South China Morning Post about the decision of the National People's Congress (NPC) regarding the elections in 2017 for the Hong Kong leadership. The protesters rallied in favour of open and democratic nominations whereby the government in Beijing no longer controls the electoral process and the citizens can freely choose their own candidates.
According to the Hong Kong Constitution, the Basic Law stipulates one country, two systems, where the Chief Executive is elected on the basis of a universal voting that follows a democratic procedure. The NPC proposals announced instead that the nomination of the Hong Kong leader must be first approved by at least half of the members of the central committee in Beijing. This would deny the Hong Kong people the ability to take part in the decision-making process and to cast their vote for candidates that have not been pre-selected by the authorities in Beijing. Furthermore, the NPC proposals also implicitly mean that those who are critical of the government stand no chance to be part of the political arena.
In September, the protests escalated. The members of the Student Federation in Hong Kong joined the demonstrators, led mainly by Benny Tai, one of founders of the Occupy Central movement. The student activists, supported by academics and non-teaching staff, organized a series of rallies and public lectures in the park near the government offices. They demanded the resignation of the current leader of Hong Kong, Leun Chun-ying. While the local police were using tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the increasing number of protesters, the government in Beijing was praising the way the Hong Kong leader was handling the so-called illegal rebellious movements on the street, where Western forces were blamed for standing behind.
Called "The Umbrella Revolution" from the umbrellas initially used against the rains or the scorching sun, these became the symbol of a pacifist shield against the police that were aggressively trying to get rid of the protesters. The Umbrella Revolution triggered an online campaign with a worldwide support in the fight for democracy in Hong Kong. But the Occupy Central protests are about much more than municipal politics.
Since China took over the Hong Kong region, the seven million population is marked by one of the highest income disparities.[3] Many university graduates cannot afford to move out of their parental home, while the regional entrepreneurs, in cooperation with the Beijing government, maximize the prices on the real estate market to the detriment of the local population. According to Leun Chun-ying in an interview for New York Times, the problems of the Occupy Protests demonstrators could be solved by extending the real estate market, as well as by accelerating the economic growth where the corporate elite is a key factor. The Hong Kong leader also opined that the elections cannot be free because they would give voice to the working class and the poor majority in the region, that, when granted political influence, would choose populist candidates. The authorities in Beijing have not changed their position: the Hong Kong residents can vote, only after NPC will have chosen its candidates, and Leun Chun-ying stays in power.
In the beginning of December, the leaders of the Occupy Central announced they would turn themselves in to put an end to the violence that had escalated over the past months. Benny Tai and the other founders of the movement asked their supporters to withdraw after the intensified acts of violence over the demonstrators in the Admiralty district in Hong Kong. These had sought to besiege the government offices responsible for disrupting the peaceful movement, leading to further cycles of escalation. After turning themselves in, the leaders of Occupy Central were released in less than an hour without any charges. The young supporters claim that public opinion is still on their side, although the protests have weakened and the Hong Kong residents have become ever more worried about the public disorder and the confrontations between the police and the local authorities.
In his first annual policy address in January, Leun Chun-ying said that the need for economic growth outweighs the calls for greater democracy, stating that universal suffrage would give leeway to anarchy. According to the Hong Kong leader the reforms to take place in 2017, when people will be able to vote directly for a chief executive from a list of candidates approved by Beijing, represent a big step forward for the democratic development of the region.
Even though the Occupy Central protests failed to meet their immediate goals, their success can be seen through the influence they may have over the role of China in the whole region. At the moment, the Hong Kong case has reminded the Taiwanese of the tight control of Beijing and the NPC autocracy over the Chinese provinces. The recent elections in Taiwan brought the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to power on the East Asian Island whose sovereignty is not universally recognized. At both local and regional elections in November, Ma Ying-jeou, the president of the Kuomintang Party, who strengthened the relations between Taipei and Beijing, lost against the DPP, which is critical of the Chinese union. After the Hong Kong protests, the Taiwanese supporters of the democratic camp have refused the regime of one country, two systems that China wants to also apply to this island too.
Hong Kong in, yet against China
In 1842, when the British Empire conquered the region on the Southern coast of China, Hong Kong is said to have been a barren, desolated area. Yet in the middle of the twentieth century, it had already become a wealthy business centre and the Chinese on the mainland were able to take advantage of it. In spite of the 1967 revolts against the British and in support of the Cultural Revolution of Mao, Hong Kong - China relations remained very close, at least from an economic point of view: business in the South was based on the continental, Chinese labour, while the Chinese government used Hong Kong for commerce and trading with the rest of the world. It was exactly this economic interdependence that made the United Kingdom in 1984 decide to cede Hong Kong back to China in 1997. Based on the agreement, even though the region was to become a Chinese province, it had to keep its capitalist regime. The 1989 tensions caught the residents of Hong Kong in the midst of an identity conflict between the Chinese spirit and the desire for liberty and democracy. In fact the Tiananmen Square protests from over 25 years ago against the Communist Party represent a lesson for Hong Kong and what China stands for, reminding the political, social, and cultural differences between the two regimes.[4]
The decision one country, two systems led Hong Kong on two different (opposing) directions: either as a state with its own regime, independent from the one in Beijing, or as an integral part of two different systems, but one in accord with the other.[5] Even though the Basic Law grants freedom of speech that should be upheld by the territory's independent court, according to Freedom House[6] the freedom of press in Hong Kong is greatly undermined: first by the NPC that makes final interpretations of the local laws; secondly by the Chinese surveillance in the territory; and thirdly by the mainland economic interests of the local media owners. The same situation is mentioned also by Reporters without Borders[7] that notes the constant decline in the press freedom in Hong Kong. The situation thus oscillates between media that are controlled by the Beijing authorities, and other alternative means of communication that have an important role within the civil society[8], where the growth of new online networks, given the technological progress, helps to support various social movements.[9]
Although Hong Kong took the top position on the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom[10], the regime cannot be called democratic and is in no way independent from the control of Beijing. In essence, Hong Kong is an administrative region that considers itself liberal and that does not subscribe to the communist values, although it does lie under the Chinese authorities. At the same time, the region is marked by serious shortcomings when it comes to democracy, because even internally there are different ideologies[11] that have subsisted throughout time. In this sense, Hong Kong is a hybrid regime that, besides the fact that is not a transition regime, cannot be defined either as democratic, or authoritarian[12], because it contains elements from both categories that co-exist simultaneously.[13] As an autonomous region, but under the Chinese sovereignty, the hybrid and semi-democratic regime of Hong Kong becomes ever more vulnerable[14] vis-a-vis the Beijing government on whose support it has become dependent, given its political (tight) control.[15]
At the same time, Hong Kong is known as the "City of Protests", because the residents have traditionally exercised their right to take to streets openly against the Communist Party and the union with China, organizing non-violent protests to support democracy.[16] These movements, which have taken place more frequently in the past decade, could be seen as a way of expressing identity, because the Hong Kong citizens are Chinese, yet behold democratic, Western values, a combination that has made them ever more aware of the political climate in Beijing, and helped them form a common conscience when taking part in street protests.[17]
Democracy, in the hands of the people
Recent civil protests, be they in Hong Kong, Ukraine, or Turkey, do not take to streets as a strike or a picket, but instead occupy public spaces, most often in a non-violent manner. They are mainly facilitated by technology and social media that help them expand beyond the local level where they take place. And although they do not typically have a clear ideology and a leader promoting a concrete program that would give the strengths and ability to take over, these protests are the proof that nowadays citizens have the power to express their wishes, to create a common political identity and to intervene and challenge the authority of a ruling government.[18]
Street demonstrations now operate on the online level as well as the local area, allowing them not only to expand, but to bring about new opinions that anyone can freely express.[19] Thus, political activity is longer limited to the elite houses or the organisations and parties they belong to, as was once the case. Thanks to the Internet and various means of communication, activists can now become participants in the decision-making process and turn into actors in the so-called politics of protests[20], reinventing political activism and the way social movements are being shaped.
Western ideas of modernity revolving around the democratic liberalism paved their way also in Asia[21], confirming the progress of the human development, measured not just through the emancipative values[22], but also through the Human Development Index. Although, according to the Freedom House, political liberty at the global level is decreasing[23], the level of human liberty worldwide, seen through emancipation, modernity, and democratization, proves to be increasing. The difference comes from the fact that the Freedom House methodology[24] takes into account mainly the civil and political rights, whilst the emancipative analysis is based on the level of democracy of a society centred on human values, measured through the World Value Survey indicators.[25]
Referring to Hong Kong, the British values brought prosperity in the Southern part of China, because they had been preserved and nourished for more than a century; studies show that the liberal and democratic type of patriotism (in contrast to the absolutist, hegemonic type, imposed by the Chinese authorities on mainland China) defines the course of education in Hong Kong. The protests that started at the end of the summer represents a call for freedom vis-a-vis China and the hope for direct democracy, because citizens want to be part of the political decision-making process.
In spite of the economic and military progress in China, the country lags greatly behind in several respects, given the irresponsible behaviour of state-owned businesses in Africa and elsewhere, the government covering for autocrats in UN votes, and the poor environmental record. The important position that the Chinese state has today is exclusively given by economic growth, and not by an intelligentsia with a humanistic ideology. The long gone Chinese leaders whose Oriental vision was once exemplary to the whole world, cannot be compared with today's Chinese president whose supremacy is based on an autocratic regime and a powerful position challenged not just internally, but also worldwide. Even though democracy may be a 'universal aspiration' as Western leaders have insisted on, democracy is a culturally rooted practice. Nearly every Western country extended the right to vote long after the establishment of elaborate political systems with powerful civil services and strong institutions that cherished notions of individual rights and independent judiciaries. The deep political aspirations of the Hong Kong people cannot be dismissed as futile, when in fact they symbolise the longing for democracy and autonomy from the Chinese government.
Although the Occupy Central protests seem to have failed at the moment, their effect will surely long resonate in Beijing and around the world, because they prove the existence of a new political generation that has the possibility to make history and help establishing a new regime: a regime called for and by the people.
[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/24/country/45/
[2] Chen, Jie 2014 The Overseas Chinese Democratic Movement After Thirty Years Asian Survey 54 (3) 445-470
[3] see Income Inequality in Hong Kong: http://www.hkss.org.hk/SPC/2011-12/AwardPDF/S11-12-DP4.pdf
[4] Lee, Francis L.F., Chan, Joseph Man 2013 Generational Transmission of Collective Memory and about Tiananmen in Hong Kong: How Young Rally Participants Learn about and Understand 4 June Journal of Contemporary China 22 (84) 963-983
[5] So, Alvin Y. 2011 One Country, Two Systems and Hong-Kong-China National Integration: A Crisis Transformative Perspective Journal of Contemporary Asia14 (1)
[6] https://freedomhouse.org/
[7] http://en.rsf.org/
[8] Yung, Betty, Ming, Leung 2014 Diverse roles of alternative media in Hong Kong civil society: from public discourse initiation to social activism Journal of Asian Public Policy 7 (1) 83-101
[9] So, Alvin Y. 2011 The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region East Asian Social Movements eds. J. Broadbent, V. Brockman 365-378
[10] http://www.heritage.org/index/
[11] Ngok, Ma 2011 Hong Kong's Democrats Divide Journal of Democracy 22 (1) 54-67
[12] Bogaards, Matthijs 2009 How to clasify hybrid regimes? Defective democracy and electoral authoritarianism Democratization 16 (2) 399-423
[13] see the definition in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science 2011: http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/intlpoliticalscience/n258.xml?rskey=bad8ty&row=1
[14] Overholt, William H. 2001 Hong Kong: The perils of semidemocracy Journal of Democracy 12 (4) 5-18
[15] Forg, Brian C. 2013 State Society Conflicts under Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime Asia Survey 53 (5) 854-882
[16] Garrett, Daniel 2013 Visualizing Protest Culture in China's Hong Kong: Recent Tensions over Integration Visual Communication 12 (1) 55-70
[17] Lee, Francis 2010 The Perceptual Bases of Collective Efficacy and Protest Participation: The Case of Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong International Journal of Public Opinion Research 22 (3) 392-411
[18] Krastev, Ivan 2014 From Politics to Protest Journal of Democracy 25 (4) 5-19
[19] vezi studiul OpenPolitics despre polarizarea opiniilor "n mediul online, realizat pe utilizatorii Facebook: http://www.openpolitics.ro/noutati/homepage/cazul-voiculescu-pe-facebook.html
[20] Norris, Pippa 2002 Democratic Pheonix: Reinventing Political Activism Cambridge University Press
[21] Welzel, Christian 2011 The Asian Values Thesis Revisited: Evidence from the World Value Survey Japanese Journal of Political Science 12 (1) 1-31
[22] Inglehart, Ronald, Welzel, Christian 2006 Emancipative Values and Democracy Studies Comparative International Development 41 (3) 74-94
[23] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2014#.VI7o-CdDbPC
[24] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2014/methodology#.VI7pPCdDbPA
[25] http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp
A 2008 alumna, Raluca Batanoiu holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Bucharest (Romania), one MA in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) and a second in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica). She worked for Transparency International (Berlin, Germany), UNESCO (Hamburg, Germany), Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (Prague, Czech Republic), and CoWell Research Center (Bremen, Germany). She is currently based in Budapest, Hungary.


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Seepage Losses from Parallel Canal Systemsby H. Y. Hammad,
Serial Information: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1961, Vol. 126, Issue 1, Pg. 136-143
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Two-dimensional problem of steady seepage flow under gravity from system of parallel, identical, and equally spaced canals into semipervious clay layer underlain by freely permeable layer of sand and gravel in which piezometric heat is very near canal water level; two steps of conformal mapping are used and approximation to canal profile is adopted.
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Idress, R.
(2010). Nipple adenoma of breast: a masquerader of malignancy. JCPSP: Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 20(7), 472-474.
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Join me next Wednesday 7pm PST for the total eclipse of my passion and my work the Open Innovation Future Salon with Cesar Castro, where we will use Ideas Place to generate and collaborate around Ideas for the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Sometimes the best innovations are not technical, but organizational. I am really excited about Idea Place. There is nothing more frustrating than coming up with a good idea, sharing and collaborating around that idea and then nothing is happening with it.
The innovation that Kuhan Milroy, Ann Hardy and others (and may I say with the help of the SAP Mentors) implemented in Idea Place are the concept of Sessions. Only if there are people who can make change happen and are ready to get input ideas do we open a session around their area of innovation. For example on Idea Place we have a session running for: Contract Management in SAP SRM and Procurement for Public Sector. On August 4th 2010 there are 43 days left to suggest an idea, vote or comment on it. The session has a defined end and someone will pick up the ideas and hopefully right away let people know what the next steps are and when to expect the best idea to be implemented.
I love this picture. I sometimes go to the Idea Place just to see the flying idea confetti. It makes you want to write down some ideas and let them fly. Kudos to the one who selected it, was that you Jodi Fleischman?
Now if you want to let some ideas fly and want to know the latest regarding Open Innovation, then join us next Wednesday the 11th of August 6pm for a special interactive Future Salon: Open Innovation and the Future of Organizations. We are having it at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. The event is free, but space is limited to 75 idea folks please RSVP: http://bit.ly/aqSWVi
If you can't join us in Palo Alto, you can still participate as we are webcasting the event here: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/fs/ (As the first hour is networking in Palo Alto, you may join at 7pm PST).
We start off with an introduction to the current status and future of open innovation by Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast Cesar Castro (See: Abstract further down.) I will then introduce SAP's newly developed ideation platform: Idea Place http://ideas.sap.com/ which we will use for the interactive part of the Salon the Ideation Challenge.
Open PCAST is an online space for the public to give idea feedback to the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) (Details further down). At the Future Salon we are looking for ideas to solve the following problem:
Ideation Challenge: You are elected to the PCAST advisory board. You have access to up to $500 million in Federal Funding and the ability to propose new investments, legislation, executive orders, or other actions. What is the most important thing you can advise the federal government to do or try to stimulate U.S. innovation, economic productivity or jobs in nanotech, biotech, or infotech (the technology "golden triangle") within the next three years (Obama's re-election horizon)?
We'd like you to think about this Ideation Question over the next days and come to the Salon with a few rough ideas to be discussed among your future-interested colleagues. Bring your laptop to participate in Idea Place. We have already created the 3 areas we want to focus on: Infotech, Biotech, and Nanotech.
We will form teams of 4-6 at the Salon. These groups can be around a particular science topic (Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech) or solution topic (Education, Competitiveness, Immigration Reform, etc.). Each team will have ~30 minutes to generate/refine a couple of idea(s). You will post your Ideation Group ideas into the Idea Place during the Salon.
We will then instruct everyone on how to judge the submitted ideas and will do a round of commenting and voting on the suggested ideas. We hope to find volunteers that will post the Future Salon's top ranked ideas to Open PCAST http://pcast.ideascale.com/ after the Salon. We will end the evening with a critique of the process and our outcome.
This should be a fun and productive exercise in applied ideation for innovation. We really hope you can join us!
Abstract: This talk will provide an update of what open innovation means today (beyond it's roots in R&D and product development). Open innovation will be presented in the context of leveraging external networks to help your organization thrive and succeed. Topics covered in this talk include: Open Innovation Strategies, How To Prepare for The New Innovation Paradigm, Innovation in an Increasingly Collaborative Environment, Managing Confidentiality / Intellectual Property, Getting Started: Developing a Global Innovation Strategy and Examples / Case Studies of companies that are successfully deploying these strategies. This lecture will provide concrete examples and key takeaways of how open innovation is helping companies today.
The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) is an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers, formed in April 2010, to advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the many areas where understanding of science, technology, and innovation is key to strengthening our economy and forming policy that works for the American people. President Barack Obama said, "PCAST represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experience and views. I will charge them with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation." PCAST is co-chaired by John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Eric Lander, Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project; and Harold Varmus, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, former head of the National Institutes of Health and a Nobel laureate.
Cesar Castro Bio
Cesar Castro is Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast, a company that has developed an online collaborative brainstorming platform. He founded DiscoveryCast based on his experience in innovation, crowdsourcing, and corporate social networking. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Business, where he lectures in the area of innovation and changing the corporate culture to embrace new innovation models.
He is a former Research Director at the Institute For The Future (IFTF) where he led the Signtific Project, the Institute's study of the future of science and technology. Before joining IFTF, Cesar served as Vice President of Business Development at InnoCentive from 2001 – 2006, one of the leading open innovation platforms. As VP Business Development, he was responsible for recruiting innovative companies from around the world to join and post their R&D challenges on the InnoCentive platform. He worked with organizations in the life sciences, defense, manufacturing, food, and chemical sectors. He also worked at the Industrial Research Institute, Shell Chemical Company, and MBA Polymers (a Bay Area clean-tech company).
Cesar has conducted projects on the future of science and technology, open innovation, crowdsourcing strategies for corporations, and network-centric innovation. He has written forecasts and given speeches on open innovation in heath care, the future of science and technology, trends in global health, and using networks (and crowdsourcing) to enhance innovation practices.
He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Loyola College in Maryland and an M.S. in Macromolecular Science from Case Western Reserve University. He can be reached via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or via his blog (http://openinno.wordpress.com/).
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the above format of short lecture and interactive ideation session. Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/aqSWVi
SAP Labs North America, Building 1, Room: Southern Cross. SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public.
Hope to see many of you in person or on the webcast.


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Joe GransingerTuesday,30 April 2013
The Snap:
Australian pop group Empire of the Sun have released a video for their latest single, "Alive". The track will be featured on their upcoming album "Ice on the Dune", which is due out on June 18th. Empire of the Sun's current discography is available on iTunes and Spotify.
The Download:
The electronic-duo had plenty of success when their debut album and hit single "Walking on a Dream" was released in 2008. The album won many awards including album of the year, single of the year, best group and best video. It also gave Empire of the Sun tremendous international success, as they have been near the top of almost every European chart throughout the years.
Let's hope Empire's new album will pick up right where the last one left off, because "Walking on a Dream" is one of the catchiest and most addictive songs ever recorded. The whole album was fairly solid, but not quite as energetic and appealing as the title track. Their newly released single has the same sound and style as the last album – which is good – but I'm left wanting something more out of the song. Empire of the Sun draws obvious comparisons from MGMT, and in this case, they are identical. Both groups have the potential to put out amazing songs, and while they rarely release a 'bad' song, some stand out above the rest. Unfortunately, I think "Alive" falls in with the rest, in this case. A good single, but not outstanding.
The video for 'Alive' and the bands preview trailer for 'Ice on the Dune' also bring excitement of their own, as they were both filmed and directed by a division of J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Some serious theatrical skill went into those two videos, and it shows.
It's still too early to get a full picture of what the album is going to sound like, but if "Alive" is a good indicator of things to come, it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
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Hat Tips:
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Harman Joins Wireless Speaker and Audio Association
The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association, an industry group dedicated to bringing high-resolution, wireless, multi-channel audio products to the home theater market, has welcomed Harman International as its newest member.
Samsung-owned Harman includes the AKG, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson, and Revel brands.
As a WiSA member, Harman may leverage the association's wireless-enabling technology to expand its home theater product offerings.
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The WiSA Association consists of more than 30 member brands, including the world's top manufacturers and resellers of audio products, who remain devoted to developing and promoting the adoption of WiSA-certified products worldwide. Together, WiSA and its members deliver unmatched performance and ease of use in the home theater industry.