In December 2022, Asia Centre successfully delivered 5 training sessions to over 100 Master Trainers in Thailand. The thrust of the training involved helping Thai participants to go beyond click-bait disinformation, recognise other types of disinformation that encompass hate speech, political and state-sponsored fake news and use the appropriate tools (fact-checking, quality journalism, media literacy and ethics) to deal with them.To this end,  Asia Centre, in collaboration with  ASEAN Foundation and with support from Google.org, formed a consortium with Uttaradit Rajabhat University, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Prince of Songkla University, Maejo University, and Chulalongkorn University to deliver the “ASEAN…

On 8 December 2022, Asia Centre and International IDEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU established a formal partnership between the two organisations and facilitated a specific agreement to be partners for Asia Centre’s International Conference on Democracy and Elections in Asia, to be held in Bangkok, 23-25 August 2023. Click here to learn more about the 8th International Conference. Nalinrat Tingoum, Programme Coordinator of Asia Centre, and Seema Shah, Head of Democracy Assessment Expertise of International IDEA, exchanged the agreement for the two organisations to co-partner for Asia Centre’s 8th International Conference. The “exchange” took place during…

Asia Centre has begun convening Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Trainings for Master Trainers in Malaysia. In collaboration with Google and ASEAN Foundation, these trainings, which make up the “ASEAN Digital Literacy Programme (ADLP)”, seek to build resilience against disinformation among underserved communities in Malaysia. Aiming to train around 200 people, the first training session was held on the 23rd of November 2022 for  32 academic staff of the University of Reading Malaysia (UoRM), followed by another joint session with the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), UniKL and Taylor’s University Malaysia for its 15 students and lecturers.  The training were…

A regional network where lawmakers and political party representatives could undertake research, coordinate advocacy, exchange best practices and develop capacity among one another will contribute to the duty of the state to protect human rights as set out by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR). This has not yet existed. This was the gap identified by parliamentarians across Southeast and East Asia in the training ‘Business and Human Rights for Parliamentary and Political Party Representatives’ organised by Asia Centre with the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) Southeast and East Asia from 28–30 November 2022. Following…