News and Articles
Implement Creatives Industry Law as envisioned, crack down harder on piracy
August 26, 2022We need to act with urgency and stop rampant online piracy. It is threatening the collapse of the creatives industry.
The Philippines as a global creative powerhouse
August 22, 2022House Bill 0799 has the strong support of creative industry stakeholders, the telcos and internet service providers and should be one of the top priorities of Congress because of the strategic value of developing our talent rich human resources into a global creative powerhouse.
TV5-ABS CBN: A welcome alliance
August 15, 2022I believe that realizing a successful synergy between ABS-CBN and TV5 must be seen from a developmental lens that would result a new level of quality, discipline, and trust in public service programming.
CitizenWatch Statement on ABS-CBN – TV5 Partnership
August 12, 2022CitizenWatch lauds the joining forces of two of the biggest and most influential brands in Philippine telecommunication, ABS-CBN and TV5. This is a milestone that will benefit Filipino viewers and hopefully elevate the quality of Philippine entertainment, public service, and general discourse. The fusion of ABS-CBN and TV5 is definitely good news for viewers – […]
Strengthen our digital backbone, build digital communities
August 8, 2022The digital readiness of our people should be a primary concern for everybody. This is essential to our recovery and the economic empowerment of our people.
Building digital ready communities and workplaces
August 8, 2022The pace of innovation is exponentially accelerating but gaps in our readiness in terms of digital infrastructure, skill sets, obsolete policies, and governance issues are formidable challenges that will need an unprecedented level of synergy in vision and collaborative fusion of expertise and resources of private and private enterprises.
Shatter the anonymity shield of cybercrime and trolls
August 1, 2022We need the SIM Registration Law to plug this vulnerability and to fight these waves of cybercrime now invading the privacy of our sensitive personal data.
Students will benefit more from greater discretion allowed to private schools
July 24, 2022CitizenWatch Philippines is one with the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations in urging the government to allow schools the discretion to conduct blended learning modes beyond the October 31 deadline set by DepED Order 34. While a return to the pre-pandemic mode of instruction would be ideal to correct the learning losses observed among […]
Rightsizing for lean, efficient, and responsive governance
July 18, 2022by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “This heightened appreciation of the urgency and the strategic benefits of a system wide digital transformation presents a great opportunity to shape up the overweight bureaucracy into a super system of public services” The plan of the President Marcos Jr. government to transform the country’s bureaucracy to be […]
Walk the talk in letting technology drive recovery and growth
July 11, 2022A digitally powered economy will ultimately serve the interest of all Filipinos, who will be able to partake of the benefits of technology, boost their productivity and employability, and enjoy upward economic mobility.