Kuala Lumpur, 13 August 2025 – INITIATE.MY hosted the fourth session of the Knowledge Hub series at KL Journal Hotel, focusing on ‘Digital Security Strategies’. The session strengthened civil society’s capacity to manage digital risks, safeguard information, and adapt to an evolving online environment. Facilitators framed digital security as a shared organisational responsibility that extends...
Kuala Lumpur, 24 August 2025 – The ASEAN Youth Advocates Network, in partnership with Talang Dalisay, organised the third session of the ASEAN Youth Month (AYM) 2025 Advocacy Series Webinar titled “Stop the Cap: How Fake News Threatens ASEAN’s Stability.” Balqis Maesara, Project Officer at INITIATE.MY, spoke on how misinformation and disinformation threaten human security...
The Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly returns for a third edition this August 26 to 27, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, continuing the vital work of fostering resilience and solidarity within the digital rights community in the Asia-Pacific. Building upon the foundations of DRAPAC23 Chiang Mai and DRAPAC24 Taipei, the assembly will unite diverse stakeholders to combat rising digital authoritarianism...
Kuala Lumpur, 26 August 2025 – The panel discussion “Tech-Facilitated Abuse and Its Threats to Democracy and Human Security in Southeast Asia” convened regional experts, activists, and researchers from Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia to examine how technology is increasingly abused by bad actors to threaten democracy and human security in the region at...
Kuala Lumpur, 27 August 2025 — INITIATE.MY participated in the Women’s Leadership Course organised by the British High Commission and Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) and Philippine National Police (PNP), delivering a presentation titled “Engaging Civil Society.” The session, led by Aizat Shamsuddin, explored how civil society organisations (CSOs) play an essential role in promoting tolerance,...
Kuala Lumpur, 28 August 2025 – On the third day of the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly 2025 (DRAPAC25), INITIATE.MY, in collaboration with APCOM Foundation, World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS), and Cloudflare, co-organised a capacity-building workshop aimed at strengthening the ability of civil society organisations (CSOs) and human rights defenders (HRDs) to navigate digital and...
Join us for a focused workshop equipping civil society organisations (CSOs) and human rights defenders (HRDs) with strategies to strengthen protection against digital and physical threats, featuring: 👥 Speakers - Jun Ng, Decent Design, User Experience and Discovery Lab (Open Technology Fund) - Josef Benedict, CIVICUS Monitor Asia Pacific Researcher, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen...
Kuala Lumpur, 10 September 2025 – INITIATE.MY participated in the Platform Design and Governance Workshop organised by Architects of Diversity, in collaboration with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia and supported by Luminate. The two-day workshop convened policymakers, researchers, legal professionals, and civil society representatives to strengthen collective understanding of platform governance,...
Kuala Lumpur, 19 September 2025 – The International Youth Rationalisme Forum 3.0: Exploring Solutions to the Growing Issue of Racial and Religious Extremism in Malaysia from Different Perspectives’ organised by the International Youth Rationalism Forum Committee gathered speakers of diverse background to encourage discourse and exchanges on addressing social inequality and all forms of discrimination...
How prepared are we to confront the growing threats enabled by technology — from disinformation, online hate to crimes targeting vulnerable communities? Bringing together experts from Malaysia and across the region, our panel will unpack how technology is reshaping the threat landscape from online extremism and disinformation to digital abuse — and what policy, platform,...
