Asia

Mission: 

To prevent violations of privacy by:

Submit opinion reports to the government, including the ones against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) for its tolerance with Google Street View.

Submit petitions and opinion reports against “face-recognizable surveillance cameras” and its first experiment by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

Organize meetings to raise awareness about privacy issues.

Issue organizational reports on a regular basis.

Geographic Concentration: 
Japan
Website: 
http://www.acri.org.il/en/
Date Founded: 
1972
Mission: 

Established in 1972, ACRI is Israel’s oldest and largest human rights organization and the only one dealing with the entire spectrum of rights and civil liberties issues in Israel and the Occupied Territories. An independent and non-partisan organization, ACRI’s mandate is to ensure Israel’s accountability and respect for human rights, by addressing violations committed by the Israeli authorities in Israel, the Occupied Territories, or elsewhere.

ACRI is committed to promoting the universality of human rights and defending the human rights and civil liberties of all, regardless of religion, nationality, gender, ethnicity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Geographic Concentration: 
Israel
Website: 
http://www.voicebd.org/
Date Founded: 
2001
Mission: 

VOICE is a rights-based, activist organization working mainly on the issues of food sovereignty, aid effectiveness, economic justice, and the right to information and communication, both in Bangladesh and on a global scale. By building a broader constituency of alternative voices to the ‘mainstream development discourse’ through research and public education, VOICE is taking a stand against unjust and undemocratic practices.

Geographic Concentration: 
Bangladesh
Website: 
http://isoc.ph/
Date Founded: 
2009
Mission: 

The ISOC Philippines Chapter (then called ISOCCP) was first chartered in 1999 with Philippine Internet pioneers Dr. William “Bill” Torres and Dr. Willy Gan. The rejuvenation of the Chapter began in 2008 and its formal recognition granted in January 2009. ISOC is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

Geographic Concentration: 
Philippines
Website: 
http://www.isoc.hk/
Mission: 

ISOC HK (Internet Society Hong Kong Chapter) is dedicated to the open, unencumbered, beneficial use of the Internet; the upholding of the freedom of expression and opinion, privacy of personal information and aversion of social discrimination; through responsible self-regulation and harmonized governance.

Geographic Concentration: 
Hong Kong
Mission: 

The Internet Society is an independent, international, nonprofit, cost-based organization established in 1992 by two of the fathers of the Internet: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. We are dedicated to the stability, continuity and advancement of the Internet, not for its own sake but rather for the benefits the Internet can bring to all people. ISOC has “chapters” around the world. A chapter is a group of ISOC members who come together to represent the Internet needs of their community and to pursue ISOC’s mission of an Internet for everyone. In India there are currently two chapters, ISOC India – Chennai and ISOC India – New Delhi. Membership in the Chennai chapter is open to anyone in Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala, AP, and Pondichery who is interested in the growth and evolution of the Internet.

 

Geographic Concentration: 
India
Date Founded: 
1987
Mission: 

The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), is a nonprofit NGO in the Philippines seeking to democratize information and communication systems and resources for citizens and communities. Since its formation in 1987, FMA has sought to enhance the popularization 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 assert their communication rights towards progressive social transformation. It has since evolved a pro-active research and advocacy agenda in the area of ICT policy and internet governance.

Geographic Concentration: 
Philippines
Website: 
http://www.cis-india.org
Mission: 

The Centre for Internet and Society will critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange.

 

Through multidisciplinary research, intervention, and collaboration, we seek to explore, understand, and affect the shape and form of the internet, and its relationship with the political, cultural, and social milieu of our times.

Geographic Concentration: 
India
Website: 
http://www.consumerskorea.org/
Date Founded: 
1983
Mission: 

Consumer Korea has been working as a professional consumer organization since its establishment in January 1983, holding an international perspective. Over the past 2 decades, Consumers Korea has focused on 3 major issues, which are, safety, transparency and sustainability in relation to promotion and protection of consumer rights.

Geographic Concentration: 
South Korea
Website: 
http://bytesforall.net/
Date Founded: 
1999
Mission: 

Bytes for All (B4All) is a networked space for citizens in South Asia. It experiments, highlights and organizes debate on the relevance of ICT to development activities. South Asia - often considered as an ICT powerhouse, is also the home of highest number of poor people in the World. Poverty is not just about income or GDP, its also about human development, access to better life, education, health, opportunities, empowerment and human rights

Geographic Concentration: 
Pakistan