

Boto Mo, iPatrol Mo empowers people
Updated July 09, 2009 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines – I have a cell phone. I will take a picture or video of something that inspires hope, or illustrates wrongdoing. I will change the world.
With this working principle, the Boto Mo, iPatrol Mo (BMPM) project of the ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Department gets to high gear this month.
BMPM, which currently has more than 13,000 registered members, is ABS-CBN’s stab at encouraging Filipinos to participate in democracy’s most potent tool: The election of our national and local leaders.
First introduced in the run up to the 2007 elections, BMPM was able to mobilize Filipinos, using their mobile phones, to take pictures and videos of snippets of what they thought was going wrong in the election in their barangays and provinces. They then sent these to ABS-CBN.
Messages sent to ABS-CBN ranged from 500 a day leading up to elections and one every minute on election day. After checking the reports for accuracy, ABS-CBN aired these citizen reports on various platforms — TV Patrol, Bandila, Umagang Kay Ganda, ANC, DZMM and published them on www.abs-cbnnews.com.
Today and tomorrow, July 10, ABS-CBN will hold its first of a series of Patrollers Workshops in General Santos and Davao City — key areas in Mindanao where the bulk of the BMPM registrants come from. The workshops are half-day affairs gathering Boto Patrollers — the BMPM registered members — in a public place for free workshops on citizen journalism and civic involvement in elections.
The BMPM project in 2007 was recognized by local and international bodies. It won the Gold Quill Award of Excellence from US-based IABC, the International Association of Business Communicators. IABC called Boto Mo, iPatrol Mo an “effective campaign with a modest budget... with thoughtful use of strategic partners — all based on a bold, honorable mission.”
Maria Ressa, head of news of ABS-CBN, said citizen journalism — the idea that ordinary citizens have stories to share with the world about their communities — powered by the new tools of technology, lies at the heart of BMPM.
“We took the traditional power of broadcast media, cable and combined it with new media — the Internet and mobile technology — to create the first instance globally where a news organization called on citizen journalists to come together for a very active, political purpose — to patrol their votes and push for clean elections,” Ressa said during the launch of the BMPM: Ako ang Simula last May, exactly one year before the 2010 elections.
BMPM: Ako ang Simula raises the level of participation of patrollers this year as ABS-CBN integrates social networking sites like Multiply and Facebook with cell phones and e-mails as venues where Boto Patrollers can submit their reports.
“In one day, thousands of people line up in the hot sun, waiting for hours to register to vote and become Boto Patrollers — citizens who promise to use new media and their cell phones for change... The enthusiasm and the thirst for new ways of doing things was palpable,” Ressa said in describing a BMPM registration campaign on June 11, the eve of the Philippine Independence Day.
Details of the BMPM: Ako ang Simula may be viewed at the www.abs-cbnnews.com.

Gabby at Gina Lopez ng ABS-CBN, tinatanging Manileņo
TV UPDATE Updated July 09, 2009 12:00 AM
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MANILA, Philippines - Pinarangalan bilang Outstanding Manilans sina ABS-CBN chairman at CEO Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III at ang nakababatang kapatid nitong si Regina “Gina” Paz Lopez, managing director ng ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. (AFI), sa isang seremonyang ginanap dahil sa kanilang masigasig na pamumuno at serbisyo-publiko bilang lider ng ABS-CBN, ang pinakamalaking korporasyon sa media ng bansa.
Ginawaran naman si Ms. Lopez para sa kaniyang kontribusyon sa pangangalaga sa kalikasan kabilang na ang Kapit Bisig Para sa Ilog Pasig, ang pitong taong programa ng AFI para linisin ang Ilog Pasig na dumadaloy din sa ilang parte ng Maynila.
Pinangunahan ni Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim ang pagbibigay-pugay sa magkapatid na Lopez kasama ng ilan pang awardees sa iba’t ibang larangan.
Ang parangal sa magkapatid ay nagpapatunay lamang sa dedikasyon ng ABS-CBN na maglingkod sa sambayanang Pilipino bukod sa paghahatid ng magagandang programa at mahusay na pagbabalita sa mga manonood.
Iginagawad ang Outstanding Manilans kada taon upang parangalan ang mga taong nakapag-ambag sa kagalingan ng lungsod ng Maynila at nagsisilbing inspirasyon sa mga tao rito. Parte ito ng pagdiriwang ng ika-438 na anibersaryo ng siyudad, simula nang nadiskubre ito ni Miguel Lopez de Legazpi noong 1571.

unfair lagi kaayo kay wala sad ni gi apil ug pa close?
nga to think daghang mga kapamilya
ang mangadto sa pikas ug mag una2x ug samok2x.... unfair lagi kaayo ni!
maayo unta humanon ang tayong dalawa nga taas pa ug ratings![]()
ari lang ko dri. kay ma infractionan ta sa pikas XD eheheheh
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