Last week was a busy one for the newly established Department of Information and Communications Technology, as two of its attached agencies organized the first National Data Privacy Summit and the Cybersecurity Summit separately. The National Privacy Commission convened the first ever national data privacy summit on December 5-6, 2016 at Read more…
The Right to Know, Right Now (R2KRN) Coalition, a group of around 160 individuals and organizations advocating for the fulfillment of the people’s freedom of information, held a public forum on “FOI in the First 100 Days: Developments and Balance of Work” on Friday, 7 October 2016. Members of the Coalition delivered presentations on Read more…
Coalition Welcomes Duterte Plan to Issue EO on FOI STATEMENT OF RIGHT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW! COALITION 23 May 2016 The Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition, a network of organizations and civil society leaders pushing for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for the past fifteen 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…
On 04 November 2015, the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles was launched after several months of collective drafting and consultations with civil society Internet rights groups and ICT policy community. The initiative for the creation of the Declaration was launched during the Philippine Multi-stakeholder Forum on Internet Governance, 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…
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…
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual event observed around the world to celebrate Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). To kick-off this year’s SFD celebration in the Philippines, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) College of Engineering, through the combined effort of the College of Engineering Managers of Read more…
The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance (APrIGF) on 1–3 July 2015 gathered around 300 participants from 27 countries to discuss the different facets and issues on Internet Governance in the Asia Pacific region. Representatives from the civil society, tech, and government from the Philippines attended this year’s Forum in Macau Read more…
Quezon City, Philippines – Last June 25-26, 2015, FMA conducted its first Connect Your Rights National Training of Trainers (ToT). The 2 day training was held at the Oracle Hoteland Residences. The ToT aims to equip partner organizations with knowledge and capacity to be able to re-echo the CYR training Read more…