{"id":9350,"date":"2016-11-07T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T07:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2016-11-07T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T07:51:59","slug":"ph-government-to-launch-transparency-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/ph-government-to-launch-transparency-website\/","title":{"rendered":"PH government to launch \u2018transparency website\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippine government is set to launch its own website called \u201cFreedom of Information portal\u201d where people can access information about government projects for transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9351\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/FE074_L.jpg\" alt=\"fe074_l\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018FREEDOM OF INFORMATION PORTAL.\u2019 This website seeks to prevent corruption and promote transparency in government projects<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published by PhilStar, Department of Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said that this new website will \u201cprovide information about contracts, status of projects and their contractors. Tugade noted that this was in relation to President Duterte\u2019s promise for the country to have a clean government free from corruption.<\/p>\n<p>This plan to launch the Freedom of Information portal was said to have been announced to ask Congress for special powers in addressing traffic problems in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall be transparent and we shall be accountable,\u201d said Tugade as quoted by PhilStar.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the website is expected to be launched by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/11\/04\/1640344\/government-launch-transparency-website-infra-projects\">PhilStar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine government is set to launch its own website called \u201cFreedom of Information portal\u201d where people can access information about government projects for transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[724,279,721,723,722],"class_list":["post-9350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-access-to-information","tag-duterte","tag-freedom-of-information-portal","tag-philippine-government","tag-transparency"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/FE074_L-e1478487095110.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}