SYNTHESiST Blogroll Links to Malou Tiquia and The Lobbyist 323.0
Curator’s Wand will be a recurring section in SYNTHESiST that records significant links on relevant subjects from the Internet links that I curate regularly in my Facebook page. This first edition of the Curator’s Wand is about a post by Malou Tiquia in her blog, The Lobbyist, on the newly launched book, Ambition Destiny Victory. [...]
Social Innovation in Campaign Finance to Boost the Art of Associating 313.0
Quietly, many groups are working for better political institutions like campaign finance and program-based political parties as social innovations in the Philippines. I attended a high-powered symposium yesterday – except for the absence of representatives from the key constituency of political parties – on Increasing Transparency in Campaign Finance. Symposiums like these are done to [...]
Discouraged Voters Affected VP and Senator Elections 209.0
Those with interest in highlighting the success of automated voting like the Comelec, the PPCRV and the Makati Business Club are already extolling the elections as a total success. I think we should celebrate the success of automated voting soberly and with the thought that it may not have delivered the true will of the [...]
Philippine Automated Elections – My Experience 207.0
In pictures. I finished with my duty at 7:28 a.m. today My voting strategy was to come early and be among the first fifty voters in the queue at my voting center or return in the afternoon. I came in early and was at the gate of the Pasay City West High School near the [...]
Lessons from the Last Mock Elections at UNTV 206.0
More and earlier mock elections would have exposed glitches and helped adapt to change According to its main goal, the mock elections on Thursday, April 29, can be considered a failure because only 500 voters came for a 50% turnout. The mock election was not able to simulate the targeted 1,000 voters and test for [...]
Will the 2010 automated elections be a failure? Part 2 of 2
Our happiness ought to be the leader-candidates’ platform in this election This post answers the other question on election failure, that of the political scientists and many people in the streets: If the purpose of elections is to select the best leaders, will the 2010 automated elections fail? Unlike my answer to the same question [...]
Will the 2010 automated elections be a failure? Part 1 of 2
I have two answers: I hope Not! and Yes, it has! Pundits argue that the main purpose of elections is either (a) to select the best leader or (b) to express the will of the people. Which purpose do you agree with? Political scientists and most people on the streets will stand by purpose (a) [...]
Pro-Gibo Post-Bayani Urinal by MMDA 194.0
Change management, at its most efficient, in an emerging market. The order of execution: Communications objective. Develop concept – change to green from fuchsia. Prototype and test. Plan, schedule and budget. Mobilize resources. Execute on a thousand toilets. Check quality. Turn-over. Can’t do quicker or better for this coming automated elections. Need I say more!
Comelec Plans to Reduce Congestion from Clustering are Inadequate 187.0
Res 953 was enacted en banc on 12.22.09 as a complete plan Minute Resolution 953 was promulgated one week before the first Res 8739 General Instructions for the Board of Election Inspectors (GI). If, implemented fully, it can greatly minimize congestion from clustering. Yet, it was not made part of that first GI for the [...]
Being an Automated Elections Observer is Hard Work 185.0
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad, now of the Liberal Party, when he saw a group of us of the Cebu NAMFREL off to Danao City, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with [...]
On Congestion – Advance Post on Comelec Res 8786 GI for BEI 183.0
Comelec proactively and innovatively designs VAC to help manage congestion The Comelec inserted a new provision – a really creative one – in the updated Res 8786 to create a Voters Assistance Center (VAC) in each school to help manage congestion that is the main consequence of clustering. In this automated election, congestion from clustering [...]
Implementing Automated Elections in a Context of Cheating and Mistrust 181.0
Difficult hurdles for tech-enabled social innovation in the Philippines Still, the benefits in making wholesale cheating difficult – the main purpose for automating counting and canvassing in this election – and getting the results quicker for the national officials may be well worth the hard work. For me, the most emblematic story on the management [...]
