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...
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....
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...
Pause. #TakeCareBeforeYouShare . The fight against #COVID19 is also a fight against misinformation.
On World Social Media Day on June 30, the United Nations expressed its hope to reach billions of social media users with this new message...
I hold the line with Maria Ressa et. al.
I stand with Maria Ressa , Rey Santos & Rappler . The guilty verdict vs. Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. is an attack against...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The power of the social media community in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Originally published in Sunday Business & IT on March 22, 2020 How is everybody doing in the time of the Luzon lockdown or community quarantine...
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...
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...
Let’s work on a disaster information management system
How did you learn about the eruption of Taal Volcano on Jan. 12, 2020? Many of us got alerted in our social media feeds. During...
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...
WT.Social, an alternative to Facebook and Twitter?
Frustrated with Facebook and Twitter for their “clickbait nonsense,” Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, created WT.Social in October 2019. WT.Social is a social networking...