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February 28, 2025Read more...The digital economy is transforming how we work, connect, and innovate. Recognizing the need to equip young Filipinos with essential digital skills, YABONG Philippines, in partnership with the Local Government Unit of Sipalay City through its Executive Action Program Unit, conducted the...February 16, 2025Read more...In an inspiring initiative to bridge the digital skills gap, YABONG Philippines and Foras collaborated to host DIGIconomy 2025 on February 15-16. The workshop aimed to equip young Palestinians with essential digital skills, providing them with opportunities to thrive in an increasingly digital...February 4, 2025Read more...Dun Concha Abiera, founder of YABONG Philippines, recently represented the organization at the Digital Transformation for Empowered Communities panel in Manila. She joined global experts to discuss the evolution of educational technologies, digital governance, and transformative innovations like...January 19, 2025Read more...In an inspiring collaboration, YABONG Philippines has once again successfully conducted its groundbreaking initiative, DIGIconomy, this time in partnership with the Twezuule Foundation. Focused on equipping youth with essential digital skills, the four-day workshop took place on January 11, 12,...December 15, 2024Read more...YABONG Philippines has officially launched DIGIconomy, a groundbreaking initiative designed to empower refugee youth with the digital skills they need to succeed in the 21st-century economy. In collaboration with the Empowering Refugees Tech Talent program, the four-day workshop took place on...October 30, 2021Read more...The digitalization of human trafficking runs rampant in the digital spheres. Thus, YABONG, together with Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation- Integrated Development Center (JPIC - IDC), conducted "ProMIL for ATIP Advocates: A Learning Session on Cybersafety and Digital Campaigns" last...Read more...As a response to the alarming increase of reports from faculty and staff of Notre Dame of Dadiangas University (NDDU) regarding misbehavior in the cyberspace among students, the Guidance and Testing Center of the university partnered with YABONG Philippines in sponsoring a webinar on Responsible...September 3, 2021Read more...As ProMIL widened its scope to the environment, YABONG, together with Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), conducted ProMIL for the Environment last September 2-3, 2021 via zoom conference. It is a capacity-building workshop and digital campaign that equip young...August 20, 2021Read more...The schools, students, in particular, are one of the three important targets of Promoting Media and Information Literacy. YABONG, together with the country’s National Council for Children’s Television (NCCT) conducted “𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗼 – 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻" last August 18-20,...Read more...Promoting Media and Information Literacy (ProMIL) in schools aspires to hone student leaders all over the Philippines from their various educational institutions. The major partnership with the Department of Education paved a way to promote MIL in schools around the country. Hence, on June 25,...Read more...The city-wide event on MIL to youth leaders of Davao City was launched last May 8 to 9, 2021. This camp aimed to bridge the technological gap among youth, as well as to build a better and safer digital space in Davao City. This Camp Davao was made possible with the help of the United States...Read more...Mabini Colleges Inc. held its First Virtual Student Congress on Media and Information Literacy with the theme: "Molding Responsible and Empowered Citizens in the Digital Era" last April 24, 2021. Live on the Facebook platform, the event reached 9,200 views and 613 shares. The event featured MIL...Read more...In celebration of General Santos City Youth Festival, YABONG, led by its founder, Dun Concha Abiera, partnered with Youth Affairs and Development Office, in the leadership of Ms. Sahara Enriquez Cabreros, to conduct and launch the first-ever Promoting Media and Information Literacy Camp in youth...January 29, 2021Read more...A one-day MIL workshop was conducted via zoom last January 29, 2021, to equip and empower the college and senior high school student leaders of General Santos Doctors' Medical School Inc. The workshop was entitled "Transforming Digital Space: Maximizing Online Platforms for Effective Student...December 4, 2020Read more...Violence Against Women (VAW) is one of the country's omnipresent social problems. Accordingly, various measures and mechanisms have been employed and implemented, One of which is the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW). The Obrero Campus Student Council and the University of...October 30, 2020Read more...In celebration of the UNESCO Global MIL Week 2020 for the whole month of November, the US-PH Exchange Alumni, PAMIL, Yabong, and GAPMIL Asia and Pacific brought the first-ever International MIL Youth Virtual Summit. The summit was premiered on the Philippine Association for Media and Information...October 28, 2020Read more...The UNESCO MIL Alliance Youth Committee was initiated during the Global MIL Week 2016 Youth Agenda Forum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a vital part of the MIL Alliance. Embracing UNESCO’s “youth as leaders” strategy, the UNESCO MIL Alliance Youth Committee involves young professionals and youth...September 11, 2020Read more...With the goal to upskill and promote social good with the advent of technology and eliminate the occurrence of misuse of social media among the studentry, YABONG, in partnership with the Ateneo De Davao University (ADDU) Office of Student Affairs, conducted a media and information literacy (MIL)...Read more...In celebration of the Mindanao Week of Peace 2020, Yabong was given an award and recognition by the Provincial Government of Sarangani, Equal Access International, and Mindanao State University - IPDM for its remarkable contribution to various initiatives and campaigns in the region. Since Yabong...Read more...With the infodemic penetrating even learning institutions and universities, especially during this pandemic, YABONG Philippine took part in an effort to further promote and celebrate MIL in Schools through a webinar event entitled “Pagkalampag” centered on eradicating infodemic in times of...More Posts