The article “The Nobel Peace Prize 2021[2]”
(08 October 2021, The Nobel Prize)
says:
The Norwegian Nobel
Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa
and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which
is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. Ms Ressa and Mr Muratov are
receiving the Peace Prize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression
in the Philippines and Russia (respectively). At the same time, they are
representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in
which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions.
Maria Ressa uses
freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing
authoritarianism in her native… Philippines.
After the Nobel announcement, Justin Hendrix interviewed Maria Ressa (18 April 2021,
“Maria Ressa: On Disinformation & Democracy,” Tech Policy Press). For one thing, she accused Facebook with
having “allowed leaders to manipulate people with impunity.”
My advice is, with the added prestige of its Nobel, for Rappler
journalists to go from Investigative
Journalism to Development Journalism,
or what I call Communication for
Development (ComDev), which is the exact title of my beloved blog.
Without
letting go of Disinformation
concerning the whole political and social Philippines, Rappler could devote 70% of its powers into Documentation, Database & Delivery
in the wide field of agricultural growth. Pity the millions of poor farmers
& fishers who need, first of all, ComDev information & data!
An Agriculturist, I’m thinking of collaborating with
Rappler, Maria Ressa willing, to create a Rappler
Agriculture Infobank (AI). With
Rappler’s new prestige, I am sure it can attract grants for the digital project: US$1 Million from the USAID
and P5 Million from the Agricultural
Credit Policy Council (ACPC), an attached agency of the Department of
Agriculture (DA). With USAID & ACPC funding, Rappler’s AI can easily hire
from the key state colleges & universities (SCUs) in the country young gatherers
of scientific knowledge & farmer experiences, the collection of which are then
transformed into farmer-usable bits &
pieces and searchable by cellphone anytime. With Rappler as Program Manager, I will be Knowledge Guru and train the SCUs’ youth
on creative journalism, virtually.
In 2003, then-ICRISAT Director General and now PH Secretary
of Agriculture William Dar proposed
an Open Academy for Philippine
Agriculture (OpAPA). That proposal was submitted via PhilRice, which
hired me as a consultant – I wrote an original OpAPA concept book titled The
Geography Of Knowledge (TGoK), 200 pages, to turn dream into reality,
but nothing came out of it. Tigok!
Today,
if Rappler approves my proposed Rappler’s AI, TGoK will come back to life!@517
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