CSO-FP will host website launching to adopt IT challenge

Website logo, link: http://forum4peace.org/

Iligan City - Information technology or IT is the modern trend in the present computer age society. the power of information nowadays is vitally needed on any engagements like business, politics, socio-cultural, economy, education, media, volunteering services, among others.

The Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace, Inc. (CSO-FP) will launch its new and powerful designed website, the "forum4peace.org" that would cater the needs of the audiences and clients in terms of information, developed and designed by "inventivewebs" based in Cagayan de Oro City.

The launching will be scheduled on February 8, 2017, 9:00 a.m. at the Kalinaw hall of the Institute of Peace and Development in Mindanao (IPDM), MSU-Iligan Institute of technology, Iligan City. The event will be attended by CSOs, media, academe, LGUs among others.

The Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace, Incorporated or CSO-FP, is a non-government and non-profit organization based in Iligan City. It was organized on 2003 and registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 5, 2005. Its membership is drawn from the NGOs and POs and other sectoral organizations, and individuals with advocacy on peace and rights based issues.

There are five core programs for the CSO-FP to move on, these are the Peace advocacy on conflict transformation and peacebuilding; Good governance on Transparency and accountability; Media on peace journalism; Environment on Climate change; and Gender mainstreaming. All these programs will be implemented on a collaborative effort in building peace and sustaining democracy through peace partnerships.

The CSO-FP has seven members of the Board of Trustees headed by a President. It is managed by the management Committee headed by a Managing Director and assisted by the committees with its chairmanships based on the five core programs.

Media advocacy on peace journalism is a cross cutting program of the five core programs. After the launching, the CSO-FP will make peace films especially on Mindanao context to be posted in the website. This will also explore the possibility to post news video coverage and news reporting with stories vital to peace and development. For information about the CSO-FP website, you may visit the link, http://forum4peace.org/. Reports & photo by Jun Enriquez, website logo designed by Bonn Ryan Lao & Jac Macatimbol