GEMS @ UNODC SINGAPORE. 28–30 October 2025.
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Event Name: South-East Asia Regional Meeting on Preventing and Countering the Spread of Violent Extremism on Gaming, Gaming-Adjacent, and Other Online Platforms Targeting Youth in South-East Asia
Date: 28–30 October 2025
Location: Singapore (GEMS participation via Zoom)
Organisers: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Terrorism Prevention Branch and Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in partnership with the European Union and the Government of Singapore
The GEMS Project contributed (remotely) to this EU-funded UNODC regional workshop, convened as part of the programme “Supporting Asian Countries’ Resilience to Violent Extremism in the Digital Space.”
GEMS representatives presented the Horizon Europe-funded project, its main objectives and findings on extremist exploitation of gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, and ran a recorded practical usage scenario of the Watchtower tool.
The workshop reviewed regional trends, best practices, challenges, and lessons learnt in preventing violent extremism in the digital space targeting youth, with welcome remarks delivered by Frank Geens, EU Counter-Terrorism Expert to Indonesia and ASEAN.
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