Ahead of the upcoming week-long Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Festival in Chiang Mai, EngageMedia looks back at our journey towards the Festival, and what participants can expect come May 2023.
EngageMedia invites individuals from marginalised and underrepresented groups to apply for the fellowships, which will provide limited funding for selected participants to join the Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Festival in Chiang Mai in May 2023.
On Day 2 of the Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Forum last January 13, 2023, the opening keynote zeroed in on the value of connection among digital rights advocates and the need for collaborative sense-making.
The opening keynote of the Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Forum last January 12, 2023 provided an overview of the various challenges to digital rights in the region and the need for coalition-building to address these shared threats.
The solidarity events in Dhaka, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila provided dedicated spaces for participants to delve deeper into the digital rights issues in their countries and strengthen connections with other changemakers in the region.
EngageMedia is set to host four in-person forums in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Cambodia to create spaces and opportunities for collaborations and knowledge-sharing among human and digital rights advocates.
EngageMedia is the South and Southeast Asia regional partner of the global Internet Freedom Consortium, a three-year initiative by Internews that aims to enhance digital security for civil society and media organisations, engage citizens in internet governance debates, and advance human rights online.
Despite having the fourth biggest population on the planet, Indonesia is rarely represented in regional and global digital rights conversations and networks. To address these and other challenges and opportunities, EngageMedia is working to strengthen digital rights networks in the country, among other projects that will expand the global profile of Indonesian digital rights issues.
Working in partnership with KOMAS, EngageMedia hosted a video distribution, security and public engagement camp for activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, Singapore and East Timor from February 19 to 24, 2012.
