The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) on June 28, 2017 held a forum on the State of Open eGovernance in the Philippines. Dr. Randy Tuano from the Ateneo Economics Department, who is also the President of the Board of Trustees of FMA and part of the core research group Read more…
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), supported by the Making All Voices Count initiative managed by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom, undertook an Open eGovernance Index project that aims to develop a quantitative tool to gauge the state of eGovernance around the world. There were five countries Read more…
More than 500 policymakers, civil society representatives, activists, business representatives, and technical community representatives from all over the world attended the Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) last 15-18 May 2017. Some of the attendees had participated in the first three SIFs, but many were also first-time participants, myself included. The Forum Read more…
The greatest benefits of attending an academic or professional workshop are the opportunities to build my network and increase my awareness on new trends happening in my area of interest. I had the pleasure of attending some training-workshops, conferences and fora, both in local and abroad since I joined FMA in 2015. This year Read more…
“The internet is a very dangerous world that we all fall into. With the rising innovation in technology, we had all fallen into the culture of social media and had made ourselves vulnerable by the way we use them, may it be FB, Instagram, Twitter, etc. We post every move Read more…