Posted by admin on May 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by admin on May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by admin on April 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by admin on April 13, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on April 8, 2010 · 3 Comments
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) [...]
Posted by admin on March 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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!
Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad of the Liberal Party when he saw us off to Danao, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with NAMFREL. So lately, I found his transformation to traditional [...]
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Posted by admin on March 8, 2010 · 5 Comments
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on March 4, 2010 · 4 Comments
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on February 8, 2010 · 3 Comments
Sets the bar in testing the candidates. I’m down to 4 choices. Crisply run and with clear-cut time constraints, it forced the debaters to speak to the point. The microphone was gently shut-off on the long-winded. Still, it captured enough meaningful sound bites. Held at the University of the Philippines National Theater before a full [...]
Posted by admin on February 7, 2010 · 7 Comments
Filipinos are engaged but Tech usability issues can disenfranchise. We have always been enthusiastic about elections with past participation around the 80% range. And Juan voter was well engaged at the Maharlika Elementary School in Taguig as voter, as BEI member, as monitor, as media and, as typical, kibitzer in mock elections to further test [...]
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