TIME AND AGAIN, we have had the issue thrown back at our face: If we have so many complaints about our politicians, why do we keep electing them into office?
But there is a corollary question here as well: If we have so many complaints about our...
WE'RE CERTAIN that everybody already knows this: Remittances from overseas Filipino workers always peak during the Christmas season, when dollars, euros, and dinars flood the country to fund the seasonal buying and eating sprees.
So we tweaked today's...
FOR TODAY'S Data a Day, a simple question:
What is the most expensive civil-works contract implemented by the government in the last 15 years?
The naughtier ones would probably start digging up pork barrel projects linked either to Janet Lim Napoles...
February 5, 2014 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Cross Border, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, The Economy, The Internet
"DEVELOPMENT" without access to information and independent media is "an absurdity."
If it is serious about its new sustainable development agenda for the world, the United Nations (UN) must protect and promote access to information, independent media,...
IN WHAT SOME fear could be a backsliding to authoritarian rule, Burmese police arrested five local journalists over a report they published alleging the existence of a secret chemical weapons plant operated by former Burmese generals.
The Southeast...
by Charmaine Lirio
THE UNUSALLY SLOW PACE of the corruption cases against erring officials and government’s failure to secure swift punishment for the guilty are major factors that encourage a reign of impunity within government ranks, a former...
by Karol Ann Ilagan
ANY IMPROVEMENT in transparency via the newly launched Data.gov.ph may only be realized by the time the project fully rolls out. But the initial development of the website, a response to the growing open data movement worldwide,...
