We have started discussions on bringing together governments, security agencies, publishers, journalists and other relevant parties in the Asia–Pacific to discuss how to advance press freedom. More broadly, the intention of these dialogues is to build trust between relevant parties and between countries.

Funds raised to support this project will go the quarterly and annual event management plus a small travel component. The rest will be pro bono. There is a 10% admin component.

Timeline: the initial outreach to establish this Dialogues is underway. Again, this is an ongoing and long-term project, but we aim to have the initial round of Dialogue discussions held in 2022-23.