October 15, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, The Economy, The Judiciary
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES need to empower women more if they are to effectively fight graft and corruption and uphold the principles of accountability and transparency in government. This was the consensus among participants of the United Nations...
October 13, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Congress Watch, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Journalist Killings, Media, Online Research, Paper Chase, The Internet
Global Investigative Journalism Network 2013 ESTABLISHING new avenues for digging-in and delivering on the muckraker's craft is a double-edged sword: freeing investigative journalists from kowtowing to advertisers but requiring that they navigate...
October 10, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Human Rights, Videocasts
THE OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP (OGP), an international initiative to promote transparency in all countries, released on Thursday a report by its Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) on the compliance by the Philippine government of its commitments to...
October 10, 2013 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights
THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT has completed only three of its 19 commitments to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to make government more accountable, transparent, and responsive to its citizens. However, the three commitments that the Philippines...
October 9, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Investigative Reports
IT WAS FORMER SPEAKER Jose de Venecia who once said that the key to winning the Speakership of the House of Representatives was a person's ability to keep members of Congress happy. Of course, with generous portions of pork. The same still holds true...
October 8, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Online Research
THE CONCEPT OF tingi is probably one of the more popular, if not practical, ways that Filipinos deal with economic realities. But what works with shampoo sachets and cigarettes apparently does not work with billions of pesos in pork barrel funds. In...
October 7, 2013 · Posted in: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports, Money Politics, Online Research
IN AUGUST this year, President Benigno S. Aquino III did the seemingly unthinkable: He announced the abolition of the pork barrel. The trouble was that he did not really abolish the pork barrel system; what he did abolish was the pork in its current...
