JANUARY 2023 GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines The Women and ICT Development Index (WIDI) survey, which surveyed 26,719 households in the country, showed 84.9% of women and girls aged 15 years and over were mainly using their smartphones as information communication technology (ICT) […]
SEPTEMBER 2022 GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines What we gather this month:Online Sexual Harassment and Non-consensual sharing of videos and images are rampant; ASEAN lawmakers speak about the dangers of disinformation; Judiciary and Law Enforcement Initiatives against Threats, Intimidation and Harassment; Tech Companies […]
GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines May 2022 scoop: Reaching for inclusivity, leveraging platforms for empowerment and fight vs. disinformation What we gather this month: Manifestations of gender-based violence (OGBV) offline and online. Reports of various forms of gender-based violence continued. How responsive are laws in the […]
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is a non-profit civil society organization based in Quezon City with mission is to assist citizens and communities – especially CSOs and other development stakeholders – in their strategic and appropriate use of the various information and communications media for democratization and popular empowerment. […]
GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines March 2022 scoop: Recognizing online violence as ‘real-world violence’, surfacing feminist lens on the borderlessness of the Internet What we gather this month: Manifestations of online gender-based violence (OGBV). Incidence of ICT-facilitated trafficking and gendered disinformation continued. Election disinformation efforts target to damage Robredo’s […]
December 22, 2021 H.E. Ms Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki Chairperson Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes Your Excellency, We, the undersigned organizations and academics, work to protect and advance human rights, online and offline. Efforts to […]
TRIGGER WARNING: Violence, sexual abuse With nearly 74 million Internet users (67.0% of the Philippine population) and 89 million social media users (equivalent to 80.7% of the total population), information and communication technology (ICT), especially smartphones, continue to make large and lasting impacts in how Filipinos communicate, interact with one […]
Module 2 – Introduction to the Data Privacy Act of 2012 Introduction Who are you? As individuals we are identified based on information that relates to us. We have our names, date of birth, addresses, photographs, identification cards, educational, employment and health records, and the list goes on. The government […]
Women and girls’ increased vulnerability to violence also manifested online over the past year. This January 1 to June 23, 2021, FMA recorded 37 media-sourced reports of online gender-based violence (OGBV) with the use of an APC-hosted data mapping platform. While FMA found that the number of media reports went […]
FMA | Statement for International Women’s Month 2021 It has been almost a year since the Philippines was placed on lockdown, and during this period we have seen how devices and digital platforms have become essentials for Filipinos in the ‘new normal’. Jobs, economy, public services, and education have been […]