Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is a non-profit NGO in the Philippines seeking to democratise information and communication systems and resources for citizens and communities. Since its formation in 1987, FMA has sought to enhance the popularisation of development-oriented issues and campaigns through media-related interventions, social communications projects, and cultural work. Since 1997, the Foundation has focused on the area of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable disadvantaged communities to assert their communication rights towards progressive social transformation. It has since evolved a proactive research and advocacy agenda in the area of ICT policy and internet governance.
FMA also engages in regional and global governance spaces, and often plays a convening role in various initiatives and engagements in and for Asian civil society. It served as a focal point for Asian CSOs in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes, and convenes regional meetings and joint projects in the area of communication rights and access to information/knowledge/culture.
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