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Pasig Online Assembly On Open Streets: Opening Activity

Pasig City today started a weeklong project to get residents, workers and students to co-create their own traffic and transport regulations. Under discussion: whether to turn streets into biking, walking, retail, and restaurant areas to allow safe social activity and livelihood especially during COVID-19.

Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship in Crisis Time

Rebuilding the economy through inclusive business and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the focus of a web forum organized by MBC and the Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev) with the support of Australian Aid (AusAid) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Click For Care: The Telemedicine Solution

Telemedicine allows medical consultations to resume while addressing patients’ — and doctors’ — COVID-19 related safety concerns. In a webinar hosted by MBC, in partnership with the Philippines-Malaysia Business Council and Malaysian Embassy, Kuala Lumpur-based DoctorOnCall, shared the barriers, benefits, and best practices of telemedicine.

The State of Global Democracy with Larry Diamond

25 August 2020 – The pandemic struck the world at a time when global democracy is in peril. In the MBC-KAS webinar “The State of Global Democracy”, best-selling author and leading scholar Larry Diamond gives an overview of the “democratic recession”.