Articles by Noemi Lardizabal-Dado

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]

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]

March 26, 2020 0

In Metro Manila, fighting COVID-19 requires helping the poor now… #COVID19PH

Old methods of emergency response no longer apply By Ica Fernandez and Abbey Pangilinan with inputs from Nastassja Quijano, Dr. Miguel Dorotan, Patricia Mariano, Benedict Nisperos, Zaxx [read more]

March 23, 2020 0

A day in the life of a health care worker in the time of Covid-19

My heart goes out to all the health care workers. Our health care workers need all the support. They are the frontliners in taking care of patients affected by COVID-19 disease. I would never know [read more]

March 8, 2020 0

Coronatracker.com : real-time #COVID19 coronavirus disease tracking platform

Get yourself informed and prepared to stay safe in the time of #COVID19 Coronavirus disease. Visit https://www.coronatracker.com/ to get yourself informed and prepared to stay safe. Visit their [read more]