The 4th of June 2016 will be our last day of operations for Inconvenient Questions
Dear Family and Friends,
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that IQ will cease operations in early June. The 4th of June 2016 will be our last day of operations.
I have had to make this decision because we have not been able to raise sufficient funds to sustain operations, going forward.
IQ was launched as a socio-political site in January 2015 with a clear mission – to promote a brand of online discourse that is robust and honest, yet reasoned and reasonable. We were determined to demonstrate that rigorous debate need not be sharply adversarial in tone. We didn’t encourage a “fire-from-the-hip” style of exchange and most certainly didn’t want vitriol. The idea was to make it more conducive for the “middle ground” viewers to move from being mere observers to active participants. We also made the unconventional decision to have video content take centre-stage in IQ. Apart from wanting to better capture the emotions in arguments, a key motivation was to demonstrate that enough Singaporeans are prepared to move away from anonymity and speak their mind on camera.
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Media Professional
8 年Its a shame I enjoyed watching. What to do money makes the world go around I guess.
Chief Insights Officer at Asymmetrics Research | Artist at Chow and Lin | TED Fellow
8 年This is a big pity, more middle ground platforms with real content and active diverse voices are truly needed. Glad to have contributed. Thank you, hope you will come back other good projects!
Professional Legal Support | Ex-Big Law | Climate | ESG | Sustainability | Business Human Rights | Trustee (Homelessness) | Artisan Cheese | Semi-Retired ???? & ????
8 年I am really sorry to read this Viswa Sadasivan - missed being part of it last month. Agree with David Thian, but hope we will hear from you again.
Strategist, with a heart
8 年A real pity...and once again it raises (in my mind) the old but complex question: why is it so hard to do good, AND do well? Many local social enterprises with noble goals are struggling financially.
Core team role at health/traveltech startup Health4Travel. | Communications, Partnerships, Startup, Fintech, Ex-Binance/HTX
8 年Will miss you guys - you've done good work.