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After my official trips to Lithuania and Hungary, I spent a week in Holland (and a day in Belgium). My artist aunt and her family have an apartment in The Hague and they were in Europe for a vacation, so I decided to extend my stay upon their invitation. Originally I had planned on backpacking [...]

From Vilnius, I flew to Budapest (via Vienna) on 19 September 2010, together with the Southeast Asian colleagues who attended the U.N. conference with me. After almost two weeks in Lithuania — although I really did enjoy my stay there — I was already looking forward to seeing more of Europe. But, as in Lithuania, [...]

The ten days I spent in Vilnius should’ve been enough to see the best sights of Lithuania’s capital city, but I wasn’t there as a tourist, so there was time only for the areas surrounding my hotel. Good thing the hotel I was billeted in was just outside Vilnius’ Old Town, so at least I [...]

This week on Thursday, I will be on a plane to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the 5th Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). I’ve been asked to participate in this landmark event by Freedom House, which also supported my participation in the 1st Asia-Pacific Regional IGF in Hong Kong last June. Freedom House is [...]

Ever since I became active in the blogosphere, especially in the advocacy efforts of the Mindanao Bloggers Community, I’ve been getting invited to conferences, seminars, workshops and similar events. Most of them relate to Internet and cyber-media / journalism issues. There were the speaking engagements in local conferences, then came opportunities to contribute to larger-scale [...]