Small Policy Change, Big Impact: Improving Internet Access in the Philippines
Change, Coalitions for | January 2019
Abstract
In March 2018, citizens in two remote municipalities of the Philippines accessed the Internet for the first time. The breakthrough was made possible by Pipol Konek, a government program aimed at providing free Internet access to millions of unserved and underserved Filipinos.
This story traces how a policy change introduced in August 2017 unlocked the Pipol Konek program. It describes how a group of concerned citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) with support from Coalitions for Change (CfC) identified and eliminated a critical barrier that would lead to immediate and far-reaching implications for improving internet access for millions of Filipinos. Before turning to the details of the reform, we briefly review the importance of the internet for economic development.
Citation
Change, Coalitions for. 2019. Small Policy Change, Big Impact: Improving Internet Access in the Philippines. © The Asia Foundation. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9867.Keywords
Commerce and Industry
Intra-Industry Trade
Large Scale Industry
Labor
Technical Evaluation
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Industrialization
Industrial Economics
Industrial Development
Industrial Policy
Technology assessment
Technological institutes
Employment
Information Media
Mass Media
Export Oriented Industries
Electronics
Computers
Telecommunications Industry
Manufacturing Industries
Microprocessors
Electronic Equipment
Communication Industry
Project impact
Development projects
Program management
Performance appraisal
Project appraisal
Microelectronics industry
Electronic industries
Digital electronics
Microelectronics
Podcasts
Music videos
Internet videos
Interactive videos
Videos
Video recordings
Capital market
Developing countries
Market share
Labor
Technology transfer
Cumulative effects assessment
Job analysis
Task analysis
Cumulative effects assessment
Grievance procedures
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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