Articles by Noemi Lardizabal-Dado

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]

February 3, 2020 0

Stay vigilant vs novel coronavirus, misinformation

The last thing anyone wants to do in an emergency or virus outbreak is to panic. And if one panics, there is the tendency to spread unverified information. While the spread of the 2019 novel [read more]

January 16, 2020 0

How do we protect ourselves in the post-Cambridge Analytica world?

Have you watched Netflix’s “The Great Hack”? The film is a compelling documentary on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. After watching the film, I hope more people realize data [read more]

December 18, 2019 0

Tomorrow is judgment day by the court on the Ampatuan Massacre.

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) shares the Ampatuan Massacre: Summary of Case Trial, by the CMFR; https://pcij.org/article/3503/the-ampatuan-massacre-summary-of-case-trial [read more]