Tony Ngo: I believe our Vietnamese community overlooks how to promote indigenous, broad-based social movements in Vietnam, focusing on changing the regime mainly from the top down. But what next? Healthy democratic systems require strong social underpinnings, including leaders and organizations to mobilize the country effectively afterwards. Some of the most effective things we can do are to support and promote Vietnamese civic groups and a free Vietnamese media and information network.
Quoc Phan: I believe that is the next challenge for our Vietnamese communities around the world. Given that in a period of 10 years from now, we will be the faces of the Vietnamese communities and with that a new era of activism not driven by anger or by hate, but by justice and peace. We need not to look so far to complexion of this era (globalization, technology), but revert back to basic principles that have brought this world together; justice, liberty and equality. We will not deplore the failures of the current government, but seek to instill fundamental rights that each and every one of us is blessed with. We will not pour our energy into waging a negative war of deception and paranoia, but to openness, transparency and guidance set of proper laws. And finally, we must not forget the most basic objective of this democracy movement; that is, we must not lost focus on the PRIZE, the people of Vietnam.