Two things from the evening news
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
- Novartis AG reportedly has completed production of a vaccine against the Influenza A(H1N1) virus. It will be available by September and at least 30 countries already sent in their request for the supply of the vaccine to their countries. Philippines will wait for the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) before proceeding with our own request. I hope that by the time we made up our mind that we need the vaccines, there will be some more left for us.
- Smartmatic (www.smartmatic.com) won the bidding on the automated polls for the 2010 Philippine national elections. According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the company has the lowest bid in the P11.2 billion automated contract. Smartmatic’s final bid was P7,191,484,739.48 which is about 4 billion pesos lower than the pegged budget. I hope this will really be effective come 2010 polls. No more ballots stolen perhaps? Hacking now?
Tags: Comelec, Commission on Elections, Influenza A(N1H1) virus, Novartis AG, Smartmatic, Smartmatic won bid for automated polls in 2010 Philippine elections, Vaccine against Influenza A(H1N1) virus, Vaccine against Swine flu
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June 17th, 2009 at 12:12 am
my concern is about the automated election. are they not running out of time?kung ngayon pa lang sila natapos ng bidding eh how many months to go before 2010 election?baka bug testing pa lang eh kulangin na sila sa panahon.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
The vaccination is a good thing.
As far as the ballots thing, well.. I think that honestly it would only be a matter of time before the hacking started anyway with everything going digital.