ITU and UN Women select outstanding projects to empower women and girls through innovative technologies Geneva, 17 October 2016 ITU and UN Women announced today the fourteen finalists for the 2016 GEM-TECH Awards to advance women’s participation in the ICT sector. This annual award honours outstanding projects and programmes around Read more…
Dutertismo Should Address – Not Contribute to – the Climate of Impunity Preventing Rhetoric from Becoming Reality in Respecting Rights Though it is still two weeks before President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is formally proclaimed as the country’s next Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief, his electoral victory has been apparent early on, just Read more…
In stark contrast to the passage of its parent Statute, the recent issuance of the Cybercrime Protection Act’s (RA 10175) Implementing Rules and Regulations came about with little to no hostility and controversy involved. The three government agencies charged with crafting its watered-down provisions—the DILG, DOJ, and DOST—met for a Read more…
COMMUNICATIONS LANDSCAPE The Philippines has a total population of over 100 million people[1] and was estimated to reach 101.6 million in 2015. The country had a national internet penetration figure of around 40 % in 2014.[2] Overall, 45 million people are active Internet users,[3] while 32 million are active mobile internet users.[4] The country ranks first Read more…
The Foundation for Media Alternatives, in partnership with the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB), and with the support of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), World Wide Web Foundation and Internet Society (ISOC) will be holding a consultation entitled “Real Access for Women: A National Consultation on Gender Read more…
I’ve been invited to be part of a panel of reactors in a session on Safe Whistleblowing at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France on November 19. Below is the transcript of my 5-minute intervention. My organization the Foundation for Media Alternatives is based in the Philippines, Read more…
Introduction Social media[1] serves as the Internet to majority of Filipino online users. Over 80% of the Philippine Internet population uses social media. In Universal McCann’s 2008 Wave 3 study on social media, the Philippines has the highest penetration of social networking among Internet users at 83%, compared with the Read more…
Cebu City, Philippines – Stakeholders from different sectors gathered last October 19, 2015 at the Harolds Hotel in Cebu City for the offline Consultation of the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles. This consultation was organized by the Foundation for Media Alternatives, in partnership with the Fellowship for Organizing Read more…
Davao City, Philippines – On September 24, 2015, FMA held the first offline multistakeholder consultation workshop on the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles at the Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City. This consultation was co-organized by Startup Davao, Dakila Davao Collective, Initiatives for International Dialogue and the Ateneo Read more…
After processing the outcomes from the Future of #PHInternet Forum in March and collecting inputs from different stakeholders from all around the Philippines for the past 4 months, the initial draft of the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles is now live and is ready for public inputs and Read more…