Category: News and Articles
EXPENSIVE DECISION FOR CONSUMERS
December 21, 2022The looming increase in the generation charge that consumers in Meralco’s franchise area will feel in their January billing could have been minimized with a more holistic approach when the Energy Regulatory Commission denied San Miguel’s petition for relief to cover huge losses incurred due to skyrocketing fuel prices consequent to the economic shock waves […]
To become a digital powerhouse
December 19, 2022The challenge to all sectors of our society is how we can synergize and harness our human, physical, and capital resources to convert our lead as a nation of technology consumers into a powerhouse of digital innovators and e-commerce players in the global digital economy.
Encourage investments in digital infra, upgrade the population’s digital skills
December 14, 2022Heeding the President’s call to embrace digitalization is a parallel effort – encouraging investments in digital infrastructure and upgrading Filipinos’ digital skills. Only these will ensure digital transformation across the board. There is no more argument that digital is the way to go. What we need to plan carefully and execute effectively is how we […]
Positioning in the community of nations
December 14, 2022by Orlando Oxales “The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global emergency that mobilized an unprecedented level of international cooperation to confront a global existential threat” In his marching orders to the newly appointed Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary during their meeting last Thursday in Malacañang, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. urged the envoys “to be very, very conscientious […]
Environment, Social, Governance, Resilience
December 6, 2022by Orlando Oxales “The private sector being the driver of economic trajectory of which emissions is an unavoidable by-product is in the best position to lead and mitigate the cause and build resilience to the consequences of climate change” n the COP27 summit in Egypt held last month, the United Nations Environment Program reported that the […]
Building economic momentum
November 28, 2022The pandemic practically pushed the country into embracing digital technologies to be indispensable to the continuity of the economy and individual survival which further highlights how government must seriously invest in systemic digital transformation.
Digital enablement is people empowerment
November 28, 2022Investments in digital infrastructure will mean nothing if not complemented by investments in digital enablement.
Consumer discipline is key to solving plastic waste pollution
November 18, 2022As for us, consumers, we must remember that proper waste disposal is a matter of discipline- individual behavior that only we, as individual stakeholders of this planet, have full control over. We must also do our part to save our world.
Governance, the economy, and the private sector
November 14, 2022by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “It is the duty of elected and career officials of government to ensure that disbursement of the people’s money will give optimal returns in terms of projects and services and not siphoned away by corrupt practices” The character of the country’s political governance is intimately connected to […]
Internet service is a basic utility
November 14, 2022CitizenWatch Philippines calls on our legislators to enact and institutionalize a telecommunications infrastructure code, acknowledging the fact that the Internet has evolved into a basic utility.