Last weekend, our professor in Public Officers and Election Law assigned a homework, which asked the students to comment on the webpage of the President of the Philippines (http://www.president.gov.ph)
At the start, I was very amazed that one, he has his own webpage, and two, we can comment on his page. The page includes several tabs on the top of the page including: News Desk, Panata sa Pagbabago, My Cabinet, Photos, Videos, Tito Noy, Contact Us. While on the lower part of the page, there is a site search, another My cabinet and Panata sa Pagbabago links, and a Transparency Link.
Well, according to the President, this is suppose to be one of the ways to be transparent and accountable. Through the transparency page, visitors of the page can make comments, which is very commendable, UNTIL after submitting your comment and not seeing it on the page! Instead, one will just receive a "Your message has been sent and will be posted soon. Thank You!".
So much for transparency, when they will be screening your messages first before finally posting it in the webpage. This suddenly sounds more like another medium for good publicity for the President.
And so, I have yet to see the comment I posted there this week, because as of now, it only shows comments from last week.
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