EngageMedia provides consulting services across the Asia-Pacific and also globally. These services build on 16 years of experience in media production and distribution, technology development, advocacy, and organisational development, with integrating knowledge open technology, digital rights, the environment, and human rights.
Our clients have included the Overseas Development Institute, Internews, Transparency International, Oxfam, Hivos, the University of Southern California, the Sunrise Project, Creative Commons, the Association for Progressive Communications, Tactical Tech, the Ford Foundation, and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
You may also wish to review our foundation-funded program activities.
Below is a list of recent projects, with lead partners for each shown in parentheses.
If you are interested in partnering with EngageMedia, please contact us.
Event Management and Facilitation
We design and facilitate workshops, meetings, camps, and conferences using participatory and interactive methodologies:
- Coconet, Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp (regional consortium)
- RightsCon Southeast Asia, digital rights conference (Access Now)
- Voice, Linking and Learning camp, Bali (Voice Indonesia)
- Camp Chindwin, documentary camp (Equality Myanmar)
Communications Strategy, Distribution, and Impact Production
We design and implement communications and impact strategies for films and issue-based campaigns. We take particular care to ensure our approach is sensitive to the political and technological context. We also convene ‘impact summits’ and focus group discussions, bringing together key allies to design outreach and engagement campaigns for films.
- Myanmar Digital Rights Films
- Crossroads, migrant worker advocacy in Malaysia
- Papuan Voices, untold stories from the grassroots
Training
We conduct training programs in video production, video distribution, impact design, evaluation, translation and subtitling, digital rights, digital safety, social media, and campaign communications. Based on our Video for Change Impact Toolkit, we have a comprehensive curriculum on how video can be used effectively for social impact.
- Mekong ICT Camp (Thai Fund Foundation)
- Tech Camp Myanmar (Phandeeyar)
- Participatory video training in Flores (Yayasan Kelola)
Community Video
Using participatory methodologies, we help advocates grow their skills and capture local stories, building communities and movements in the process.
- Papuan Voices, a program EngageMedia initiated and ran for five years, now an independent non-profit run by the program alumni and partners.
- Indonesian factory workers training (Oxfam)
- Moviemento: Anti-Corruption Youth Video (Transparency International)
Video Production
We produce short films, capture footage and conduct interviews. We have staff in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand, with stringers across Southeast Asia.
- Visualizing Gender and Adolescence (Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence)
- Drone footage of coal pollution in Kalimantan, Indonesia (Sunrise Project/Greenpeace)
- Video documentation of Indonesian cultural projects (Yayasan Kelola)
Screenings and Talks
We are available to speak and screen our work at universities, colleges, and conferences. We can also assist with coordinating community and theatrical screenings across Southeast Asia.
- Travelling Projector screening tour throughout Java, Indonesia.
- Tutur Ufuk Timur (Tales from The East Horizon) screening tour in six cities of Java, Indonesia in collaboration with Papuan Voices.
Guides and Curriculum
We produce training materials in Video for Change and the strategic use of technologies, most importantly the Video for Change Impact Toolkit. We also produce educational materials on digital safety, digital rights, open technology and video production.
Translation and Subtitling
EngageMedia coordinates a Southeast Asia network of translators and subtitlers. Through this network, we can translate and subtitle videos into dozens of languages. We also translate written materials, such as those indicated in Guides and Curriculum.
Technology
EngageMedia produces the Plumi video sharing content management system. We also organise software development sprints.
- Critical Commons (University of Southern California)
Research and Evaluation
We employ predominantly qualitative techniques to investigate various topics, including Video for Change impact design, digital rights, digital security, video and communications strategies, and more. We also conduct a variety of evaluation services.
Research partners have included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Toronto, the University of Western Sydney, and more.
Full list of research projects.
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