News and Articles
A good start in foreign policy
June 6, 2022(President-elect Marcos) would uphold the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling, nullifying China’s so called ‘nine-dash’ claim of almost the whole of South China Sea.
Piracy takes great economic toll on Philippine industries, says citizen advocacy group
May 25, 2022Online piracy continues to take a toll on the Philippine economy, with losses running up to billions and thousands of workers in linked industries getting deprived of opportunities, advocacy group CitizenWatch said in a statement as it also urged the government to act fast to reverse these effects. “Many Filipinos have already lost their jobs […]
Digital policy unreadiness
April 18, 2022by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard The behavior and culture of Filipino consumers have changed so fast since the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our comfort zones. Things were so different three decades ago when we were just starting to use analogue cell phones and internet access was very slow and limited. Computer […]
Consumers Unite!
April 18, 2022CitizenWatch Philippines supports PBEST’s exhortation to the incoming administration to strengthen infrastructure modernization toward sustainability and resiliency. This is a challenge that our new leaders must accept at the outset of their term. Consumers ultimately bear the brunt and impact of climate change, specifically when services become unreliable and inaccessible, and goods become inaccessible, during […]
Counsels on converging existential threats
March 29, 2022by Orlando Oxales “Do your candidates think this way?” It has been two long years since the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in what many thought was an unstoppable development trajectory driven by speeding innovations in technology. One of the biggest realizations of this global crisis is the way health, the environment, and the economy […]
Be ready to strike back vs. cybercrime
March 21, 2022The growing cybercrime threat must be fought with an all-of-society strategy. Government and the private sector must empower people to be digitally smart netizens.
Fuel tax windfalls are insensitive
March 15, 2022Experts say that the unprecedented economic sanctions against Russia, one of the major producers of oil and source of raw material indispensable to many industries, will have serious repercussions to the global economy. Rising fuel prices will affect our daily transportation expenses and the cost of operations of all sectors, most sensitive of which is […]
Rare diseases patients should not be left behind
February 2, 2022By Alvin Manalansan, originally published in BusinessWorld The continuing global pandemic posed several challenges and showed the gaps all throughout the health ecosystem. Undeniably, addressing the country’s COVID-19 situation has been the priority and concern of the government for two years now, and still counting. Patients who have other health conditions, such as those […]
The crisis of rare disease
January 31, 2022by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “Our policymakers should honor the commitments promised by the Rare Disease Law.” Universal Health Care, as described in the Department of Health (DOH) website, is the “provision to every Filipino of the highest possible quality of health care that is accessible, efficient, equitably distributed, adequately funded, fairly financed, […]
Synergy for digital competitiveness
January 25, 2022We need the government and the private sector to have the synergy to pursue a well aligned digital transformation roadmap to foster our country’s readiness to compete and excel in the global digital economy.