How functional and secure AES is? The Philippine electorate will once again go to polls and decide who will lead the nation in the next six years of their lives. This important event which will elect new president, vice president and 12 senators for national posts, and seats are also being contested for provincial, city and municipal levels, is expected to be counted unofficially in 24 hours, concluded or canvassed officially in a few days or so but authorities and observers expected it to be done in less than a week. Last presidential election, it was known three days after close of election precincts. This is especially true for nation states, not only the Philippines, that conducts their elections using automated election or computerized-and-networked voting systems. In PH, the past automated elections were encumbered with technical issues and fraudulent results, uttered and written everywhere by many concerned and affected individuals and institutions alike. This time, we could say
The IGF is a worldwide multi-stakeholder event, with mandate from Paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda, and is convened by the United Nations (UN) since 2006. It is now on its fifth run which will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania and the theme is, “IGF 2010 – developing the future together”. In the Philippines, Advance Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) and Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) will be making available remote sessions to be held in Audio Visual Room, CICT-NCC Building, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P. Campus, Diliman, Quezon City.
Here is the schedule:
If interested, in fact, everyone is encouraged to join, please contact Ms. Ryne Amatorio from ASTI with these telephone numbers +63.2.927.2557 / 927.3093.
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