Banks’ “Know Your Customer” Process: Does it even work? Is our information safe?
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is imposing stricter know-your-customer (KYC) protocols over financial institutions in light of the recent scandalous Bangladesh Bank heist where...
The Freelancers Protection Act: Initial Reactions
Sen. Bam Aquino recently filed Senate Bill No. 351 known as The Freelancers Protection Act. This bill comes at just the right time when many...
Citizen Engagement: A Mission Possible?
The participative role of citizens in governance is still quite new for a lot of Filipinos. We have long left governance to our elected officials...
Big kill of small fry, puny drugs haul, defies PNP rules
(This is an article by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Reposted with permission.) Duterte’s war: Breaking bad? Big kill of small fry, puny drugs haul,...
Choosing my president: A mix of mind, spirit and heart (Part 2 of 2)
(Note: This post reflects my personal process in shortlisting my candidates and assessing them. I am sharing it since so many have been asking me...
Choosing my president: A mix of mind, spirit and heart (Part 1 of 2)
(Note: This post reflects my personal process in shortlisting my candidates and assessing them. I am sharing it since so many have been asking me...
The Pilipino Movement for Transformational Leadership (PMTL) shortlists its candidates
(This is a press release by PMTL, March 11, 2016. Blog Watch is releasing it verbatim. In no way should the shortlist be considered an...
Social Media deserves a larger role in disaster work
If the number of enrollees in the first World Bank-organized Coursera course on Citizen Engagement is any indication, the world is rapidly moving into one with...
Social media without the internet – will it ever go mainstream?
At Blog Watch, we have long realized that staying online is not going to be good enough, not just for advocacy but also because there...
Dissecting a black ops operation (and how #epalwatch was abused)
From about 3pm till about 7pm on January 14, 2015 and continuing till January 16, the hashtag #epalwatch was used by what we believe to...
Dear Candidate
Dear Candidate: It’s just a few days till we all trek to the precincts and cast our votes. I have this one last chance to...
A parent worries over the Anti-Cybercrime Law
The Cybercrime Prevention Act (R.A. 10175) takes effect on October 3, 2012, 15 days after it was published in at least 2 major dailies and...
Why you need to visit your local COMELEC office
It does not matter what kind of voter you are – new voter, old voter, disenfranchised voter, or a voter needing changes or corrections to...
#epalwatch: Citizens’ response to epal public servants
It is no secret that citizens have long loathed the habit by public servants of creatively disguising attributions to their selves in the form of...
The urgency of having an FOI law and the Right of Reply
As part of his campaign promises, President Aquino had promised to make the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) an administration priority. A year and a...