By James Doleman

The chief marketing officer of US tech startup Open Garden, designers of app FireChat, has told The Drum that fears of an internet shut-down in Hong Kong led to over 300,000 downloads of the peer-to-peer app in just three days .

Speaking from Los Angeles, Christophe Daligault said he was “amazed and overwhelmed” by the adoption of FireChat by pro-democracy activists in the city and although the media coverage of the application’s role in allowing people to communicate during the protests made him proud, he said: “The real heroes are the students.”

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Source: The Drum