[1] It assists citizens and communities – especially civil society organizations (CSOs) and other disadvantaged sectors – in the strategic and appropriate use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for democratization and popular empowerment.
FMA has worked in producing the public affairs television show ("Street Pulse", between 1986–1989), development-oriented video-documentaries (such as Gawad CCP 1991, "Dear Sam, …Sumasainyo, Juan", some of which were award-winning).
After the Internet took root and grew in the Philippines, FMA and others working in parallel fields increasingly felt that information and communication technologies (ICT) would be "the New Media or tool that will enable fellow civil society organizations to improve their respective processes, information sharing, collaboration, and in the long run allow them to achieve their respective visions.
FMA says it has also "focused on democratizing Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), aimed at empowering Philippine civil society through the critical use of appropriate new (i.e, computer-based) media.
"[3] In 2011, its activities include developing a framework and pilot testing an "Open E-Governance Index",[4] supporting the 'MDG3: Take Back the Tech!