From June 2025, Asia Centre, with the support of Google, will begin its Advanced Digital Security Training (ADST) programme aimed at mitigating the negative impact of misinformation, digital threats and cybersecurity risks within the Asia-Pacific region.
This training programme is designed for high-risk users and digitally vulnerable communities in the Asia Pacific region. The training is targeted at youths, women, government officials, people with disabilities, marginalised communities and community leaders.
Under this project, Asia Centre offers two types of training activities:
1. End Beneficiaries Training
Interested organisations that agree to partner with Asia Centre will need to jointly identify a tentative date and recruit a minimum of 30-40 participants for a 90 to 180-minute session. long training session. Partners provide the venue and facilitate venue management.
2. Training of Trainers (Master Trainers)
Interested organisations that agree to partner with Asia Centre will need to jointly identify a tentative date and recruit a minimum 30-40 participants for a 180 minutes long training session. Partners provide the venue and facilitate venue management. Identified trainers agree to meet all post-Training of Trainers (TOT) requirements to become digital security Master Trainers and receive their trainer certification.
Asia Centre will undertake curriculum development, provide trainer(s) and cover the trainers’ travel and logistical costs to deliver the above training.
At the end of the training sessions, end beneficiaries will learn about different types of cybersecurity attacks, scams and frauds and how to protect themselves against them. The digital security trainers will be equipped with knowledge and materials to conduct their own peer-to-peer end-beneficiary (P2PEB) training within their network and improve community awareness on digital security.
Together, both trainers and end beneficiaries will be able to build resilience and curb disinformation, spam, online fraud and other types of digital security threats in their respective countries.
This advanced training will build upon Asia Centre’s partnership with Google to deliver digital security training to high-risk users in 2023 to 2024. During this period, Asia Centre successfully conducted 42 training sessions in 15 Asia-Pacific countries, engaging 1,225 people with diverse gender and professional backgrounds as direct beneficiaries.
If you are interested in partnering on either the End Beneficiaries or Training of Trainers (Digital Security Trainer) programme, please email training@asiacentre.org to set up a call OR register your interest directly in the “form” for us to contact you.
Visit our social media posts from previous training cycles:
- Nepal: Child Safe Net, Digital Rights Nepal
- Sri Lanka: Hashtag Generation
- India: Association for Democratic Reform (ADR), Association for Democratic Socialism
- Thailand: National Human Rights Council South (NHRC South), Phue Thai Party, Democrat Party Thailand
- Indonesia: Indika Foundation, Social Movement Institute
- Malaysia: Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
- Taiwan: European Values Centre for Security Policy (EVC)
- Cambodia: KiriPost
