WikiPilipinas.Org honors Sec. Jesse Robredo as 2012 WikiPinoy of the Year Free reading advocate Hernando Guanlao ranks second Quezon City–After a month-long voting process, the public has chosen the late Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo as the WikiPinoy of the Year. With 86% of all the votes casted, it was a landslide for Robredo. WikiPilipinas.org, [...]
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Vote: Who is your 2012 WikiPinoy of the year? #WikiPinoy2012
WikiPilipinas releases the ten nominees vying to be this year’s WikiPinoy For the past five years, WikiPilipinas.org, the Philippines’ premier online encyclopedia, has been awarding the WikiPinoy of the Year title to the person or group of people who has empowered the public by providing open information and in-depth insights into the more significant issues [...]
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Download the Project Noah app Smart Communications, Inc. and the Department of Science and technology (DOST) jointly launched last October 17 the mobile app of the on-time weather information on the DOST’s Project NOAH Website. “NOAH” or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards is a responsive disaster mitigation program developed by DOST in partnership with [...]
Sotto’s Sarcastic Remarks on CyberCrime Prevention Act
Amid the high clamor against RA10175, otherwise known as the Cyber Crime Prevention Law, the bill law takes effect today, Oct 3, as the Supreme Court failed to release a temporary restraining order as requested by the 7 petitions separately filed by different groups of lawyers, bloggers and netizens. Earlier this morning, Senate Majority Floor [...]
The Congress’ ‘Third House’: What Actually Happened to the Cybercrime Bill
Netizens are angry about the enactment of RA 10175, more popularly known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (read full text here) due to several provisions including the controversial online libel provision (Sec 4c par (4)). Aside from the danger it poses to free speech liberally enjoyed by the online population, the said provision [...]
The Rufus Drama and Weak House Leadership
Congresswoman Kimi Cojuangco was right, we always see the same Representatives monopolizing the plenary session to deliberately delay proceedings on RH Bill. Just this afternoon, Cagayan De Oro Representative Rufus Rodriguez staged a huge drama act which can be rightfully classified as Elevator Acting. It all happened so fast, Rep. Cojuangco rose on a question [...]
Barely Legal: Villacorta makes a joke of of himself and Sotto
Barely Legal is a new column in GeloLopez’s blog where Gelo tries to make sense of the discombobulated legalese. TGeloLopez is not a lawyer of any sort, but he tries to make sense from the passages of the law. *** FACTS: Sarah Pope’s blog is copyrighted. Senator Tito Sotto, by extension through his Chief-of-Staff Atty [...]
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Something’s Fishy with Kabataan Party List’s Petition
Earlier this afternoon, Kabataan Partylist filed a petition to the Supreme Court asking to compel COMELEC to move the voter’s registration deadline from October 31 to January 12, 2013. They argued that RA 8189 or the Voter’s Registration Act specifically said that voter’s registration should be done daily, in office hours, except “during the period [...]