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Philippines completes first computerized polls
News Country successfully conducts first electronic election in Mindanao, despite threats of postponements and hostilities between government and rebel forces.
Tags: Politics, Local Government, Election, Security, Backup, Philippines, Thailand, Internet, blog, information technology
Jockeying starts for Philippine automated polls
News Country's main elections body and poll machine vendors rush ahead of Philippines' first nationwide computerized elections in May 2010.
Tags: Politics, E-voting, Technology, Richard Gordon, Philippines, Spokesperson, Procurement, E-voting, chairman, leader
Philippine Senate approves e-polls budget
News Once formally approved by President Gloria Arroyo, US$231.7 million will be set aside to support country's first fully-automated elections in 2010.
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Election, Supplier, Philippines, Procurement, U.S. Senate, violence, chairman, U.S. Congress
A MegaPacific mess in the making?
Blogs The way things are going at the pre-qualification bidding of IT suppliers for the 2010 elections, I now have this uneasy...
Rays of hope from the polls
Blogs The local IT industry has been teeming with activities in the last few weeks, so much so that you'll wonder if there's r...
Unnecessary distraction from country's e-polls
Blogs If not for the weird story that President Arroyo underwent a breast implant operation in a local hospital, I'm pretty su...
Philippines appoints new ICT chief
News Chairman of Commission on Information and Communications Technology outlines his top priorities, including the "difficult" poll automation project.
Tags: Government, Business Strategies & Functions
Digital stimulus for Philippine e-commerce
Blogs A few days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a government-organized public consultation meeting on a proposed certifi...
How ICT is getting a bad name
Blogs The Philippines, which reached its economic peak in the 1960s but gradually went on a decline in the decades that follow...
