Participatory and open, 1
I REMEMBER attending a forum before, wherein a government official was talking about open data, at a time when there was no Freedom of...
Customer relations
ACCORDING to many experts, the delivery of public services is the primary role or function of government.
In the public sector, it could be said...
Cooperativism
AS FAR as I know, communism is the only ideology in the world that combines both a political component and an economic component into...
Traffic mgt using data
CONSIDERING that the traffic problem in Metro Manila is caused by multiple reasons, common sense would dictate to us that the problem would also...
‘Ordinary poor’, ‘poorest of the poor’, 2
(Continued from July 27, 2021)
I AM NOT really sure if someone in the government somehow missed out in the overall equation, but as far...
‘Ordinary poor’, ‘poorest of the poor’, 1
REPUBLIC Act No. 10606 of 2013 defines indigent as a person who has no visible means of income, or whose income is insufficient for...
Democracy at the village level
THERE is a saying that “what you don’t know won’t hurt you”, but it seems that that does not apply to our knowledge about...
New buzzword
(Continued from July 20, 2021)
UNDER the Local Government Code (LGC), the civil society could participate in the Local Development Councils (LDCs) that are supposed...
New buzzword
PARTICIPATORY democracy is a new buzzword in the development circles that is fast gaining popularity.
Upon hearing it for the first time, however, my initial...
Open data and freedom of information
DURING the time of President Benigno Aquino III, I attended a forum where the speaker talked about open data in the Philippines, and how...