Foundation for Media Alternatives

The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is a nonprofit service institution whose mission has been to assist citizens and communities—especially civil society organizations (CSOs) and other development stakeholders—in their strategic and appropriate use of the various information and communications media for democratization and popular empowerment. Since its formation in 1987, FMA has sought to enhance the popularization and social marketing of development-oriented issues and campaigns through media-related interventions, social communication projects, and cultural work. Since 1996, FMA has streamlined its programs and services in both traditional and new media, with a major focus on information and communications technologies (ICTs), to enable communities assert their communication rights and defend their rights to information and access to knowledge, towards progressive social transformation.