"How can bloggers participate more effective in the 2010 elections?" by Janette Toral

Goal:

• Discuss issues of importance that will assisst voters in deciding who to vote for by 2010
• Get in-depth 2010 election coverage on both national and local level
• Discuss, cimpare party platform and go beyond motherhood statements

Why?
Resources
- Numerous election monirtoring groups that have personnel and colunteers capable to blog
* Have website and recognize its use but were late in setting up to maximize it
Get more citizens involved worldwide

Target audience
* Election monitoring groups
* Independent/volunteer citizen bloggers

Proposed role of UP-ISP
* Training resource
- Organize forums to make bloggers participate
* Aggregrator
- Create a blog that shall receive feeds
- Tap "wisdom of the crowd"


Execution
* Blog site
- Set up blog site
- Call for nationwide participation
* Bloggers Forum (training events)

Explore recognition of bloggers for election coverage and gain access to materials
- COMELEC
- Political conventions

Blog Site
* Add Philippines election content to mapping applications such as Google Maps
* Election videos / podcast by party (that reflect concrete platform)
* Track issues
* Election-related news
* Organize live chat sessions with candidates independent and working with media networks
* Polling (share polling experience)

Benefits
* Transparency
- See full raw report
- Balance
--- Inspire discussion
--- Commitment to facts, to public consideration, and to independence from faction
* Distributed journalism