Al Alegre

Biography

Al is executive director of Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), a 20-year old Philippine NGO seeking to promote communication rights and democratise information and communication systems and resources. He is directly in charge of FMA’s policy research and advocacy work, which seeks to promote communication rights and ICT/Internet governance as a public interest concern in national, regional and global arenas. He often represents civil society organisations (CSOs) in national and Asian multi-stakeholder meetings, policy forums, and summits related to internet governance and infocomms policy. He was a member of the Philippine Delegation to the recent UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and also acted as a convenor for Asian CSO participation in the WSIS processes as a member of the the WSIS Civil Society Bureau. He is Exeutive Board member of the global Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and a member of the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS Campaign).