Month: September 2014
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Blogging Nation: Focus on PH
Blogging has become very big in the Philippines — so many communities, achievements, opportunities, challenges. Here is my presentation I shared at a workshop at 4M Forum Jakarta, held on Sept. 24, 2014, at Atma Jaya University: Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
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#NeverAgain: They’re just waiting for us to forget
Once upon a time, a President described himself as the best and most indispensable. He said no one else, except himself, could be trusted to continue his “good work.” He said the country needed to be saved from the “specter of communist takeover.” And so that President implemented what he thought was the formula to…
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UP’s shame: Florencio Abad School of Economics
In separate statements, 23 professors of the the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics and the UPSE Student Council this week brought shame to the University by rejecting its tradition of radical activism in their scandalous defense of embattled Budget Secretary Florencio Abad. They branded UP students who confronted Abad and protested the corrupt pork barrel…
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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.…
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The 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…
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Bridging 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…
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Filipinos 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…