Personal
- First name
- Alan G.
- Last name
- Alegre
- Organization
- Foundation for Media Alternatives
- Country
- Philippines
- Website
- http://www.fma.ph
- Author Profile
Al is executive director of Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), a 20-year old Philippine NGO seeking to promote communication rights and democratise information and communication systems and resources. He is directly in charge of FMA’s policy research and advocacy work, which seeks to promote communication rights and ICT/Internet governance as a public interest concern in national, regional and global arenas. He often represents civil society organisations (CSOs) in national and Asian multi-stakeholder meetings, policy forums, and summits related to internet governance and infocomms policy. He is Executive Board member of the global Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and a member of the Open Net Initiative-Asia and the PrivAsia Initiative.