Welcome to our bi-monthly newsletter, where we feature the best posts from our channels, updates from ongoing projects, and opportunities to join our team.
We mark two important days this week. Today, we celebrate International Workers' Day (some of you may know it as Labour Day). And May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. A special salute to our hardworking front-liners and essential workers, as well as to journalists who continue reporting without fear or favour. |
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Multi-language resource
on digital hygiene
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With COVID-19, we're all more concerned about physical hygiene. But have you thought about your digital hygiene? Check out our resource on how to keep your online presence as clean, safe, and secure as your physical self. You can read the resource in English, Thai, and Indonesian, with more Asian languages coming soon. (If you'd like to help translate this resource to other languages, send an email to sara@engagemedia.org.)
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Video for Change Network releases April 2020 update
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The Video for Change Network – a network of human rights activists, journalists, trainers, and video practitioners who create and use video to affect social change – has just published their April 2020 update. Featured are a global list of videos on COVID-19 collated by WITNESS and InsightShare's series on Indigenous communities and the pandemic. Read more about the Video for Change Network here.
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Our Coconet network continues the fight for digital rights
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Kyaw Lynn from Myanmar writes about how the internet shutdown in Arakan (Rakhine State) relates to COVID-19. In Indonesia, some of our Coconet partners are part of a petition to free and uphold the digital privacy of researcher Ravio Patra, who was arrested soon after his WhatApp was hacked.
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Understanding media impact
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EngageMedia's Executive Director writes about video for change as an alternative impact model to the "big documentary".
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How To: Online
video conference
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With all conferences cancelled until further notice, read about how this youth organisation pivoted and executed a fully online conference.
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Podcast Inklusi episode 4 is out
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Podcast Inklusi is on a short hiatus. But in the meantime, listen to its fourth episode featuring guests from the KAHE community and Teater Garasi.
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