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
The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago made up of more than 7,000 islands spread over 300,000 square km. It has a burgeoning population of more than 100 million. In 1994, it formally linked to the Internet, and to date, Internet penetration is about 40% of the population. 113% Read more
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), in partnership with United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD), a non-government organization which aims to produce competent, effective and efficient young leaders who meaningfully give spiritual, political and socio-economic services to the society, conducted a 2-day training workshop on Internet Rights are Human 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
In this post, Lisa Garcia, Programme Coordinator Gender & ICT, and Christina Lopez, Programme Assistant, at the Foundation for Media Alternatives, share focus group insights on how mobile phones are changing the way Filipino women communicate. The Philippines is the 12th largest country in the world, with a population of 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
If the people concerned are to be believed, the U.S. and EU will soon see their long-standing Safe Harbor Agreement renewed, featuring significant changes relating to more privacy protections for EU citizens. The Safe Harbor Pact between the two economic powers was installed fifteen years ago, to avoid any disruption Read more
Some time last year, news broke out that U.S. telecommunications giant, AT&T, had suffered a major data breach resulting in unlawful third-party access to its customer records. Estimates put the number of people affected at over 280,000 in total.[1] Sensitive personal information like social security numbers were among the primary Read more
The Gender and Internet Governance Exchange-Asia (gigX) hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in partnership with the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) gave me an opportunity to learn about the intersections between gender and internet governance in a simple way. Honestly, I didn’t have much knowledge about internet Read more