There were complaints before from the public on the way they were excluded from expressing their views on several legislative agenda items tackled in Congress. The main issue is that Congress appears to have been very selective in choosing who they will invite to committee hearings.
Unless the media make a big deal about the measure and the consultative process, the public are deprived of their right to air their opinions and will just have to wait until the President puts his seal of approval before they get to know more about a particular bill that will have a big impact on their lives.
With the innovations in technology and extensive use of the social media, an inventive way to gather comments and opinions on the proposed crowdsourcing bill was develop by Senator Teofisto Guingona. The new approach called www.theguingonaproject.com, is a website that enables netizens to write anything they want about Senate Bill No. 73.
Also known as the Philippine Crowdsourcing Act of 2013, SBN 73 seeks to expand the avenues of participation to the online community by harnessing the opportunities offered by the social media. The measure also believes that:
Unless the media make a big deal about the measure and the consultative process, the public are deprived of their right to air their opinions and will just have to wait until the President puts his seal of approval before they get to know more about a particular bill that will have a big impact on their lives.
With the innovations in technology and extensive use of the social media, an inventive way to gather comments and opinions on the proposed crowdsourcing bill was develop by Senator Teofisto Guingona. The new approach called www.theguingonaproject.com, is a website that enables netizens to write anything they want about Senate Bill No. 73.
Also known as the Philippine Crowdsourcing Act of 2013, SBN 73 seeks to expand the avenues of participation to the online community by harnessing the opportunities offered by the social media. The measure also believes that:
- Crowd sourcing is a concept that recognizes and allows the individual and collective power of the people, with the use of the internet and/or other information and communications system, to contribute to the formulation, improvement, and creation of laws that benefit the entire nation.
- Crowdsourcing is an expression of the belief that despite our geographical separation, people can still participate in national affairs through the borderless world of the internet.
- Crowdsourcing is a recognition of a new breed of citizens that work effectively and productively, contributing to national development, through the internet and/or with the use of information and communications system.
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