Episode 03: Global Liberal Leadership Training at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation


A portrait of the International Academy for Leadership (IAF) in Gummersbach, Germany and participants from the Philippines. A review of a successful hands-on workshop on blogging and podcasting in the context of Philippine politics.

The third episode of the Liberal Times Manila podcast introduces the IAF, Friedrich Naumann Foundation's important international forum of liberal dialogue and training. The IAF courses in Gummersbach Germany attract liberal leaders from all parts of the world – among them many from the Philippine liberal family. Joining us in this show is IAF Director Jörg Dehnert and two Filipinos who participated in the program recently to tell us about their experiences.

In the second part of the show, we talk about a blogging and podcasting workshop in Makati City in early February 2006. Prominent Filipino bloggers Manolo Quezon III and Abe Olandres familiarized the group with the basics of blogging. Under the guidance of Angelo Racoma, an experienced producer of online audio content, the participants created a series of liberal podcasts in a make-shift recording studio set up in the Foundation’s office.

As in our previous shows, Dieter Bachman provides the musical background.