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Letter to the UN Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes

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 […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 3 years ago

eVAW

Gendered Disinformation: Attacking Women for Being Female, Online, and Politically Outspoken

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 […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 3 years ago

Privacy

Module 2: Introduction to the Data Privacy Act

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 […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Gender & ICT

Online Gender-Based Violence in the Philippines | Mid-year Report

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 […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Gender & ICT

A Feminist Internet is an Internet For All

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 […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Human Rights

FMA calls for #VAWFreeInternet

The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is one with the nation in the observance of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women. As an organization that advocates for human rights in a digital world, FMA looks into the intersecting issues of gender rights and ICT where mapping various forms […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Marian Hukom

“Marianie” or also known as Marian is a small Filipina who is obsessed with the color pink. A Manila girl by heart and a workaholic for the arts, she draws between the busy days. Some of her personal projects are “Nagmamahal, Maria Clara” – Filipina feminist platform online and in […]

By Christina Lopez, 4 years ago

Human Rights

The complex web of ICT laws offers little protection for freedom of expression in the Philippines

Foundation for Media Alternatives in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications and the Cyrilla Collaborative is proud to share, “Unshackling Expression: The Philippines Report.” Developed by the Foundation for Media Alternatives, an organization that assists the civil society in the use of ICTs for empowerment, the report looks at […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Gender & ICT

On the Sexist Marketing of Online Sellers

In July this year, an online shop named ‘Toyo ni Misis’ opened via Facebook. Toyo is a Filipino word for soy sauce. In Filipino slang, it also means moody, emotional or indecisive (‘tinotoyo’) – a term commonly used to describe one’s ‘temperamental’ girlfriend and women in general. The local startup […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

Human Rights

Reports

Disinformation Research Survey Report The Foundation for Media Alternatives conducted an online survey as part of a study for the Initiative for Media Freedom project. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the youths’ understanding of issues related to disinformation including how they come across it, its […]

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 4 years ago

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