Digital Rights Movement Building in Southeast Asia, 2019-2024
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The EngageMedia’s program ‘Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia, 2019- 2022” has proposed the support to the Embassy with the budget of 13 140 000 SEK. EngageMedia is a media and technology non-profit organization working towards human rights, environment, and social change with rights holders including human rights defe...
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The EngageMedia’s program ‘Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia, 2019- 2022” has proposed the support to the Embassy with the budget of 13 140 000 SEK. EngageMedia is a media and technology non-profit organization working towards human rights, environment, and social change with rights holders including human rights defenders, journalists, independent film-makers, technologists, video and digital rights activists, feminists, campaigners, etc. The intervention aims to strengthen the digital rights movement to defend democratic space in Southeast Asia. Under this 3-year support, EngageMedia’s program areas will cover: • Capacity building: awareness raising and advocacy on the areas of digital rights, online freedom of expression, data protection, security, training of trainers for regional actors on digital rights • Networking: convening regional platforms promoting digital rights issues with media, policy advocates, campaigners, social movement, etc. • Research: the proposed topics of research include Artificial Intelligence and its effects on human rights, CSOs’ use of open and secure technologies, shrinking civic spaces, and Privacy and Surveillance. The results will be used by policy advocates to better understand these issues and design the most effective advocacy approaches to them. • Communications and outreach: uses of video, film, multimedia, and other creative formats to raise awareness on human rights, environment and climate change, gender equality, inequality, poverty reduction, corruption to a wider public • Institutional building: to be able to address the issues above effectively, EngageMedia needs to be institutionally strengthened. Therefore the result management, M&E, and organizational and financial accountability will be part of this core support.
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Throughout EngageMedia's advocacy efforts (releasing articles, pod casts, social media campaigns in local languages, film screenings on Cinemata, content republications, and events), EngageMedia successfully raised awareness and public understanding of digital security, regulations, and internet freedom in countries like Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar as well as regional level. EngageMedia has enhanced the knowledge and skills of change makers on digital rights, digital safety and security through discussions and capacity-building activities at both national and regional levels. These activities provided platforms for sharing ideas and skills among country and regional partners. Stakeholders have also improved their capabilities, with participants in EngageMedia's sessions becoming engaged local trainers in their communities or active contributors to similar initiatives, such as localization sprints. Translating digital security tools and materials into local languages has improved the programme's sustainability as well. EngageMedia's network building efforts have fostered more connections between grassroots organizations, academia, and artist collectives, leading to regional and global collaborations. Their events and regional gathering have been positively received for engaging youth and local communities. Participants in their events, such as Digital Rights Asia Pacific Assembly(DRAPAC), have shared how they formed friendships and collaborations with new partners and expressed appreciation for EngageMedias support for their advocacy initiatives and eagerness to join future opportunities for growth and collaboration. Through DRAPAC networks, EngageMedia also has successfully brought digital rights community together with broader human rights movements, including feminist groups, environmental rights communities, youth, indigenous people and other marginalized communities etc.
The three supporting objectives or outcomes of this program are: Objective 1: To develop EngageMedia's communications, technology, management, governance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, advocacy, and resilience. Objective 2: To strengthen change makers in Southeast Asia with knowledge, skills, and resources in effective communications and advocacy, digital rights, open and secure technologies, and video for change. Objective 3: To develop strong networks and platforms for digital rights, open and secure technology, and video for change practitioners, which foster collaboration, engagement, campaigning, and mobilization.
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