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Join the battle for the internet
I’m joining the battle for the internet today, Sept. 10, to protect net neutrality. You should too. We Filipinos know how slow internet looks and feels like. It will only get worse if we lose net neutrality in the U.S. and the Philippines. Many Philippine websites are hosted in the U.S. or use U.S.-based hosting services. […]
MoreThe IGF and the ‘inconvenient’ ungovForum
A year after Edward Snowden exposed massive U.S. spying practices and just five months after Turkey blocked Twitter and YouTube which were used to spread voice and video recordings tagging Turkish state officials in acts of corruption, the Turkish government hosted the 9th session of the Internet Government Forum (IGF), an event held under the auspices of the United […]
MoreBridging the digital divide and the role of “market forces”
ISTANBUL – One of the topics in the ninth Internet Governance Forum here in Turkey is the “digital divide” or just how to connect the world’s citizens who remain unconnected to the internet. The dominant view in the IGF is to let the magic of “market forces” dictate the pace and direction of efforts to […]
MoreFilipinos join #IGF2014 – but where’s the Aquino gov’t?
ISTANBUL – The ninth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum opened September 2nd and runs until the 5th here in this beautiful capital city of Turkey. Organizers said the Istanbul IGF has about 3,000 participants from governments, intergovernmental organizations, business, the technical community and civil society, coming from at least 132 countries. About a dozen […]
More#Linangan2014 keynote: The call of the times and the campus press
Here are my prepared remarks and deck for the keynote speech at #Linangan2014, a Luzon-wide campus journalism seminar-workshop held on August 30, 2014 at the Philippine Normal University, Manila: Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires The big news today are about Hello Kitty and Senator Grace Poe taking the MRT Rush Hour Challenge. […]
MoreRise up on Disasters; Tech to the Rescue
The second Geeks on a Beach (GOAB) conference held at Mövenpick Hotel, Lapu Lapu City, Cebu provided time for the topic of isaster relief and rescue. Here is the deck I presented on Day 2 on behalf of TweetUpMNL: Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires Cheers and congratulations to Techtalks.ph and the whole […]
MoreDocuments: People’s Initiative to Abolish Pork
History will once again be made in the great city of Cebu: Stalwarts of the anti-pork barrel movement will gather there on Aug. 23 at the Mariners’ Court for a People’s Congress to discuss and approve the People’s Initiative documents and at the Plaza Independencia to formally launch the People’s Initiative signature campaign. With both the Congress […]
MoreMadness
Megalomania is defined as “a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem”. Sounds familiar, right? Megalomania comes to mind as we read and try to understand the news about President BS Aquino’s desire for a term extension. Moreover, in the process of amending the Constitution to lift the […]
MoreFact-checking Aquino’s SONA claims
In his fifth state of the nation address, President BS Aquino made many claims to prove that he deserves the public’s continued “trust” and to bolster his record as Chief Executive. Let’s take a close look at some of those claims.
MoreStop letting go: Electricity, oil and telecoms
For a long time now, the government has let go of its important role in the electricity, oil, and telecommunications sectors. The dominant view is that these sectors work and serve everyone better with only little or no state role in them.
MoreHow to help: #ReliefPH after #GlendaPH
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