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Posted by m beduya on June 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Books and Journals, Social Innovation · Tagged with Alexis de Tocqueville, automated elections, Campaign Finance, co-evolution, emerging markets, Francis Fukuyama, political parties, Samuel Huntington, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on May 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
From our first compilation of the top ten Philippines websites by Alexa rank three months ago (2/19/10), the 2010 automated elections and looking for jobs have become important search activities this quarter. Buy-and-sell, news, and entertainment remain top search favorites. For the whole list, the major change is the movement of most websites up the [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 12, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 m beduya on May 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Implementing computerization follows the global innovation S-curve The Philippines recent experience with implementing automated elections proves a similar climb up the S-curve with some path creation as with the experience in the United States. The productivity benefits of the personal computer that was introduced in the late 1970s and diffused quickly since then only showed [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 m beduya 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 m beduya 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 [...]
Posted by m beduya 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 m beduya on March 15, 2010 · 4 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 [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Social Innovation · Tagged with automated elections, change management, emerging markets, innovation, PCOS, Philippines, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya 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, 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 [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation · Tagged with automated elections, change management, emerging markets, IFES, innovation, Philippines, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya 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 [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation · Tagged with automated elections, change management, emerging markets, innovation, Philippines, process innovation, Social Innovation
