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The WTO 9th Ministerial Conference was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on December 3 – 6, 2013. While thousands of journalists came from around the world to report on the meeting, independent journalists were not able to get media pass to cover the event inside the venue. In response to the WTO Ministerial Conference, EngageMedia held a Workshop and Alternative Media Center in Bali from 2-6 December 2013 for the Indonesian video journalists/activists who were not able to join the main conference.

Working in partnership with KOMAS, EngageMedia hosted a video distribution, security and public engagement camp for activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, Singapore and East Timor from February 19 to 24, 2012.

EngageMedia’s Voice project aims to facilitate spaces where marginalized communities explore various ways in which they can harness their creativity and turn their aspirations into actions with real social impact. The Linking And

In 2011, Engagemedia established a partnership with ASTEKI, a local television association in Indonesia to train its members across Indonesia about online video distribution and subtitling.

EngageMedia co-founded the Transmission network in 2006. The objective of the network was to make independent online video distribution possible using Free and Open Source Software by building the necessary tools, standards, documentation, and social networks.

In May 2014, EngageMedia traveled over 18 days across the island of Java, Indonesia, to screen social justice and environmental videos in 11 different cities. The Traveling Projector tour aimed to bring our online outreach offline — directly to audiences to engage them in discussion on the issues highlighted in the videos.

In partnership with Amara, we’ve enabled online subtitling of all of EngageMedia’s videos in 2012 and conducted a number of workshops across several countries to build a Southeast Asia network of human rights

Camp Chindwin brought together 33 video activists, filmmakers and citizen journalists from Southeast Asia to a camp in Myanmar from 3-6 June 2015.

EngageMedia has conducted research for the Citizen Lab Cyber Stewards Network to understand how journalists themselves define the concept of ‘security’, what constitute practices of ‘security’, and what they do to learn about and practice ‘secure’ behaviours.