Archive for January, 2014

THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have signed the Annex on Normalization, the fourth annex that was expected to be one of the most controversial, if not the most complicated annexes because it deals with the...

Readers can now find information about more than 37,000 tax havens clients from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database By Mar Cabra and Marina Walker Guevara The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ's...

YET ANOTHER JOURNALIST has come under threat in the Philippines, even as an international human rights group expressed alarm over the surge in media killings in the last year. Arthur 'Jun' Sapanghari Jr. of dxDB in Malaybalay City Bukidnon says...

THE THIRD AND LAST DAY of the "unconference" on open governance, transparency, and technology brought two days of idea sharing down to ground level with lively discussions on how Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can engage both government and the...

Technology and information are just tools, but the messaging is the key in getting people to engage their governments. This was one of the important lessons drawn from group discussions among Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and government officials...

REPRESENTATIVES from civil society, government, and the technology sector took time off this week for an 'unconference' on how technology can be used to foster transparency, engagement, and open governance. Shita Laksmi, project manager of the...

SHEILA S. CORONEL, the founding executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, has been named Dean of Academic Affairs at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. Coronel, a respected and multi-awarded journalist and a...