Celebrating The Software Freedom Day
Today is Software Freedom Day (SFD) and celebrating it is scheduled not only in the Philippines but all over the world. SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the goal to educate ... read more
Responding To Web Filtering At ISP Level
This blog post is about a provision on the soon-to-become law on Anti-Child Pornography where our Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are mandated to filter or block unwanted sites at their level. I had already tackled the issue in ... read more
Towards A Better Internet Café Industry In The Next Decade
The title of this blog is the theme of the First Internet Café National Summit which will be held at CICT Audio-Visual Room, Ground Floor, CICT Building in CP Garcia Ave, Diliman, Quezon City on October 21, 2009 ... read more
The Distance Provision For Internet Cafés
How far should an Internet café be from a school? This is a question that has been bugging the local authorities and Internet cafe owners for so long a time. Some local government units already have ordinances specifying ... read more
Analyzing Telcos’ Per Pulse Call Charge Proposal
Do you remember the third memorandum circular of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ordering the cellular phone companies to shift to per pulse (6-second = 1 pulse) charging of calls from the current per minute charge? I had ... read more
Regulating Children’s Entry To I-Cafés
In the absence of a national law regulating the registration and operation of Internet cafés, many local government units (LGUs such as towns, cities and provinces) enact their own ordinances with provisions mostly based on the Local Government ... read more
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