Digital Rights Asia – Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) 2025 is the third Assembly jointly hosted with multi organizations including Association for Progressive Communications, EngageMedia, Architects of Diversity (AOD Malaysia), the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), the Initiative to Promote Tolerance and Prevent Violence (INITIATE.MY), Sinar Project, the event was held on 26-28-August-2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the theme “collective digital futures: building power, resilience, and imagination”.
One representative from the Conserve Indigenous Peoples Languages Organization (CIPL) Mr. Naung Sam Oeung, the Executive Director was selected to participate the event to learn from other participants about their works on digital rights and shared about digital context and trend in the Indigenous community in Cambodia.
The Assembly is the platform for people in Asia countries and around the world from different sectors and different organizations to join and share different topics relevant to human right, digital rights trends.
This is important opened platform for learning and sharing for different groups of people and organizations.
The key sharing with participants in the event
- Will take all lessons learnt from the event to apply at community, within the organization and will share with Indigenous Youth and planning to build their capacity on Digital Media and Information Literacy.
- Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia are lack of full access to internet at rural area due to lack digital infrastructure built and lack electricity in some areas in rural villages in the provinces.
- Indigenous Peoples are still limited access to information and capacity to analyze information they receive from different sources.
- Some of Indigenous Peoples who are internet users get online scam, online attack, phishing and gender harassment from anonymous social media accounts and some of the cases women are being harassed, money scammed, their social media accounts are being hacked and their personal information is leaked.
The key learning from the event:
- Indigenous Peoples from some countries in Asia have capacity to collect information and data on forest and land management areas from the satellite to document it for Indigenous Peoples themselves for their evident.
- Engage women voice and gender in to media and digital to take their voice to stakeholders to include them in digital inclusive.
- Built new networks with people from different organizations in Asia who are working on Human Rights, Media and Digital rights.
- Understanding on information and data is owned by dead when the owner of the information and data died except, he or she assigned her or his family member own to it instead.
