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January 7, 2021 0

The fight against misinformation on Covid-19 vaccine

The new year offers some hope. Hope that the government could soon get the Covid-19 vaccines and make them available to people. We must prepare ourselves with accurate, science-based information from [read more]

December 9, 2020 0

Join us at a webinar on “Countering Infodemics in this Pandemic”, December 14

You are invited to a webinar on “Countering Infodemics in this Pandemic” to be mounted by the European Union, on Dec 14, 4-6 pm Interested participants may register at [read more]

October 22, 2020 0

Build consumer confidence in the Ingat Angat campaign

Are you confident in returning to your daily activities outside your homes while practicing health and safety protocols? More than 30 of the country’s biggest brands and corporations collaborated [read more]

September 30, 2020 0

Fighting negative historical revisionism

September 23 marks the real anniversary of Martial Law, while September 21 is the fake one. John Nery mentioned in his column that “the Marcos dictatorship was built on a structure of [read more]

August 25, 2020 0

Helping ourselves, helping our community

Helping ourselves, helping our community was first published at the Sunday Business & IT on August 23, 2020 You and I are in this long journey, but together we could adapt and get more involved. [read more]

August 3, 2020 0

Defining a policy framework to respond to infodemics

First published on Sunday Business & IT, August 2, 2020. As early as February this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) dubbed the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as a massive [read more]

July 21, 2020 0

Public’s right to know in the fight vs Covid-19

If not for the huge validation backlog, the Philippines would soon be on its way to having the most number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Southeast Asia. The [read more]

July 17, 2020 0

Statement on sanitized speech of Duterte in Sulu

Here is a statement on the sanitized speech of President Duterte which was uploaded in the PCOO website. I signed along with media and individuals. The truth, no more, no less The Presidential [read more]

July 15, 2020 0

FOI Under Quarantine

Confusing, scant, missing, denied info on programs, contracts, subsidy funds By The Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition FOR 15 weeks running, from March 29 to July12, 2020, the Right to Know, Right [read more]

June 10, 2020 0

What every citizen needs to know about the Anti-Terror Bill

(Editor’s note: “What Every Citizen Needs To Know About The Anti-Terror Bill” was first published on Facebook and Twitter. You can download House Bill 6875 or HB 6875 ) — by [read more]

June 3, 2020 0

[Joint Statement] We Reject the Terror Bill

Why do our government officials always think law and order, peace and security can be realized only at the expense of our rights? We, journalists, media organizations, civil society groups, academics [read more]

May 4, 2020 0

World Press Freedom Day Report: State of Media Freedom in PH

State of Media Freedom in PH World Press Freedom Day Report May 3, 2020 A Joint Report by the Freedom for Media, Freedom for All (FMFA) Network, composed of the Center for Media Freedom and [read more]

April 26, 2020 0

Filipinos are enterprising in the time of Covid-19 pandemic

Micro-Entrepreneurship thrives during this COVID-19 enhanced community quarantine period My sister, Noemi Lardizabal-Dado, lives in a gated community in Pasig City. The residents cannot get out of [read more]

April 13, 2020 0

Surveillance technologies to fight the #coronavirus pandemic must respect human rights

In early March, I wrote my daily activity, including the people I interacted with, in a journal. I thought it might help me later on in case of the conduct of contact tracing of people afflicted with [read more]

April 6, 2020 0

The fake news provision in the Bayanihan To Heal As One Act

I cannot count the number of times misleading messages reach my group chats. If the sender is a friend or relative, I adhere to the golden rule of choosing to be kind over being right. Conveying the [read more]