A New Year is always a time for rethinking the old and imagining tomorrow. Perhaps now, more so than in recent years, with myriad challenges every Filipino— every citizen of the world faces, we look towards the future, uncertain. The challenges wrought by the global financial crisis and how the world will respond to it [...]
Open Source Auditing Tool for Election Integrity on the Road to 2010?
December 22, 2008 By 2 Comments
This isn’t a commentary. I was reading Ars Technica (did I mention, Google Reader is your friend?) and ran across this article by Ryan Paul on Open Source Auditing Tool Boosts Election Integrity. He wrote: Boulder County adopted ElectionAudits, an open source software program that implements a “risk-limiting” audit system modeled after the concepts described in Principles [...]
Better Legislators on the Road to 2010
December 9, 2008 By 16 Comments
Whether or not CHA-CHA succeeds to capture Filipinos everywhere I think is irrelevant. Reading Philippine Election Journal is a breath of fresh blogging air. Why? Janette has a very interesting post on Putting Young Blood in Congress. Which is exactly what every Filipino interested in real change should strive for. I agree that it is a [...]
Frustration and Tomorrow
November 21, 2008 By 17 Comments
It’s frustrating! The divisiveness, the single-minded nature of this country and how often our leadership’s decisions are idiotic, self-centered, often indecisive, and self-defeating— it baffles the imagination, you know? Did I mention, frustrating? Not just our politics, even our local church is so frustratingly stultifying you have to wonder, if this is the same Church [...]
Can the Future Be Designed (Redux)?
October 1, 2008 By 22 Comments
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