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Digibayanihan

12 December 2017
Discover how Digibayanihan, an innovative digital empowerment movement, is promoting digital literacy of Filipinos.

The Freedom of Information Program One Year On

5 December 2017
In the one year that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has been the lead agency in implementing Executive Order No. 2 in the Philippines, it has managed to set some of the groundwork required in execution of the freedom of information (FOI) program. The online tools,…

Making Access to Information a Meaningful Right: The Freedom of Information Program One Year On

5 December 2017
To promote better development, information sharing is a default practice that both ADB and the Government of the Philippines aim to promote and integrate into its internal culture. ADB, through its Philippine Country Office and Governance Thematic Group, acknowledges the need for combined efforts…

Freedom of Information One Year Report

5 December 2017
The Duterte administration in the Philippines highlights the importance of the Freedom of Information program as it pursues transparency, openness, and accountability in government. In the first year since its implementation, one can already list its achievement highlights and priority programs for…

Philippine Statistical Authority: Making Access to Information a Meaningful Right

5 December 2017
The Philippine Statistical Authority was one of the first to implement a Freedom of Information Program in the country. The Philippine Statistical Authority's Freedom of Information (FOI) People’s Manual, submitted in November 2016, enabled the agency to process requests effectively and…

Right to Information: Suggestions from India

5 December 2017
In this presentation, Sridhar Acharyulu of India’s Central Information Commission gives an insight of India’s experience in institutionalizing Freedom of Information implementation. He also provides information on changes necessary to make the implementation of Right to Information more effective.

Right to Information in India

5 December 2017
India has made strides in providing right to information since 2005. Read more about freedom of information in the country. Anjali Bhardwaj shared India’s experience with its Right to Information Act (RTI) which has been in place for 12 years. Passed in 2005, it is demanded, owned, used, and…

Information Management and Proactive Disclosure

5 December 2017
To institutionalize the implementation of freedom of information effectively, it is important to list public authorities as a way of ensuring that these offices could not declare themselves as private entities to avoid their responsibilities under the right to information (RTI). This presentation…

Freedom of Information Program

5 December 2017
Future programs of the Philippines’ Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) are shared in this presentation. Key findings from the results of a rapid third-party survey on freedom of information implementation carried out by the PCOO in the last quarter 2017 are also discussed.

Data Protection and Right to Information - Reconciling the Irreconcilable

5 December 2017
Three common issues arise when dealing with personal exemptions: what constitutes personal data, fairness, and disclosure. This video from the UK Information Commissioner's Office shows where the specific provision of Section 40 of the England and Wales Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, which…