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Chat Garcia Ramilo

01 · In focus

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person-chat-garcia-ramilo
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Tags philippines, manila, southeast-asia, asia-pacific, filipina, feminist, feminist-activist, executive-director, apc, association-for-progressive-communications, digital-rights, gender-and-ict, gender-and-icts, feminist-internet, internet-governance, ai-and-human-rights, ai-governance, take-back-the-tech, gem-manual, gender-evaluation-methodology, women-s-rights, awid, center-for-migrant-advocacy, cida, idrc, world-bank, unifem, unescap, un-engagement, born-1960

Chat Garcia Ramilo · 2 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

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03 · Background

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Filipina feminist activist and gender-and-ICT specialist; Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) since 1 April 2017, the senior pan-regional Global-South-rooted civil-society network anchoring the make-AI-good movement's Global-South-led civil-society wing. The principal Philippines-anchored figure in the corpus's APC senior leadership and the successor to long-serving APC Executive Director Anriette Esterhuysen.

Born in the Philippines in 1960, Ramilo joined APC in January 2000 as a gender and development expert and has built a twenty-five-year tenure across the network's principal feminist-internet and gender-and-ICT instruments. She managed APC's Gender Evaluation Methodology project from 2001 to 2005 and was lead author of the 2005 Gender Evaluation Methodologies for Internet and ICTs (GEM) manual (with Cheekay Cinco), the framework APC has since used to integrate gender analysis into ICT-for-development programmes globally, and co-authored the 2010 Facilitators Guide for GEM Workshops with Angela Kuga Thas and Dafne Sabanes Plou. From 2005 to 2012 she managed APC's Women's Programme, leading the development, fundraising, and management of nine multi-country ICT-for-development projects focused on gender equality and women's empowerment; she is described as a co-founder of APC's signature Take Back the Tech! campaign on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, launched in 2006 from within the Women's Programme. She moved to the Deputy Executive Director role in June 2013 and was elevated to the executive directorship in the April 2017 succession from Esterhuysen.

As APC Executive Director, Ramilo's stated posture on internet governance — "we prioritise local participation, we want to have local voices, as well as the voices of the ones that could not be present" — has organised APC's distinctive Global-South-rooted convening function across the UN Human Rights Council, UNESCO, the ITU, the Internet Governance Forum, and the AI-governance processes that have proliferated through the UN Advisory Body on AI and the AI Action Summit cycle. Her work areas across the directorship span gender-based online harassment, data protection, feminist perspectives on internet issues, community-network management, and sexual rights and LGBT internet concerns. Prior to her full-time APC tenure she worked as a gender-and-ICT consultant for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the World Bank, UNIFEM, UNESCAP, and the UN Division for the Advancement of Women — the multilateral-engagement track she carried into APC and to which she contributed a 2002 paper for the UN Division for the Advancement of Women Expert Group Meeting on ICTs and gender.

Outside APC, Ramilo is Board Chair of the Center for Migrant Advocacy in the Philippines and a Board Member of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), anchoring two of the global feminist civil-society field's principal organisational nodes alongside her APC role. She lives in the Philippines.

04 · Sources

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7 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. apc.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    APC's own staff profile for Chat Garcia Ramilo — primary source for her current role as APC Executive Director since April 2017, her promotion from Deputy Executive Director, her January 2000 join date, her management of APC's Women's Programme from 2005 to 2012, her lead authorship of the 2005 Gender Evaluation Methodologies for Internet and ICTs (GEM) manual, her management of the GEM project from 2001 to 2005, her direction of nine multi-country ICT for development projects on gender equality and women's empowerment, her prior consulting work for CIDA, IDRC, the World Bank, UNIFEM, UNESCAP, and the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, her board-chair position at the Center for Migrant Advocacy in the Philippines, her Philippines residence, and her X / Twitter handle @chatgarcia

  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Wikipedia biographical article — secondary corroboration of her 1960 Philippines birth, her feminist-activist self-description, her management of APC's Communications Women's Rights Programme for seven years, her assumption of the APC Executive Directorship in April 2017, her co-authorship of the 2005 GEM manual with Cheekay Cinco, her co-authorship of the 2010 Facilitators Guide for GEM Workshops with Angela Kuga Thas and Dafne Sabanes Plou, her 2005 co-authored work on gender equality and women's empowerment through ICT and on rural information systems in Indonesia, her board-chair position at the Center for Migrant Advocacy in the Philippines, her board membership at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), and her co-founder status of the Take Back the Tech! campaign

  3. apc.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    APC announcement of the 2017 senior-management transition — primary source for the 1 April 2017 effective date of Ramilo's executive directorship (with full responsibility from June 2017 after handover), her June 2013 start as Deputy Executive Director, her January 2000 join date as gender and development expert, her eight years managing APC's women's programme, her direction of nine multi-country ICT projects, her Philippines residence, her framing as bringing "strength and impassioned commitment" to the role, and the succession from Anriette Esterhuysen who had served as Executive Director since June 2000

  4. apc.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    APC interview with Ramilo on internet governance — primary source for her quoted framing "We prioritise local participation, we want to have local voices, as well as the voices of the ones that could not be present", her focus on bringing LGBT activists and feminist advocates into regional and international internet-governance forums, her work areas spanning gender-based online harassment (since 2005), data protection advocacy, feminist perspectives on internet issues, community-network management, and sexual rights and LGBT internet concerns, and her cross-country-learning posture connecting APC member organisations in Africa, Latin America, and Asia

  5. giswatch.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Global Information Society Watch user profile — secondary corroboration of her APC Executive Director role since April 2017, her prior Deputy Executive Director role, her women's-programme management from 2005 to 2012, her GEM project management from 2001 to 2005, her lead authorship of the 2005 GEM manual, her gender-and-ICT consulting record for CIDA, IDRC, the World Bank, UNIFEM, UNESCAP, and the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, her board chair position at the Center for Migrant Advocacy, and her Philippines residence

  6. intgovforum.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    UN Internet Governance Forum speaker profile for Ramilo — secondary corroboration of her current APC Executive Director role, her prior Deputy Executive Director role, her 2005-2012 Women's Programme management, her 2001-2005 GEM project management, her gender-and-ICT consulting record across CIDA, IDRC, the World Bank, UNIFEM, UNESCAP, and UN Division for the Advancement of Women, her Center for Migrant Advocacy board-chair position, and her IGF speaker engagement track

  7. un.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    UN Division for the Advancement of Women Expert Group Meeting paper authored by Ramilo (November 2002) — primary source for her 2002 contribution to the UN ICT-and-gender expert process, demonstrating the multilateral-engagement track she had established by her second year at APC

Source: entities/persons/person-chat-garcia-ramilo.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.