24/04/2026
Katuwang ng mga Pasigueno laban sa cybercrime, arangkada na!
(Part 2)
CyberGuardians PH, represented by Project Manager Marian Pacunana-Sangil and Community Engagement Officer Paolo Sangil, attends Gabay Tech’s handover ceremony with Pasig City local government. We thank for the tie-up!
The Pasig City government is the first LGU to roll out Gabay Tech, the latest tool promoting comprehensive safety in online spaces.
What is Gabay Tech?
Gabay Tech, launched under the National Models for Women’s Safety Online (NMWSO) initiative, is an open-source platform that fast-tracks and synergizes holistic response against online harm.
The types of online harm that Gabay Tech helps protect LGU constituents from cover imminent danger, stalking, financial extortion, threats, impersonation, and the unconsensual capture, publication, or circulation of photos, videos, or personal information (doxxing).
What value does this new tool add given the existing systems already guarding against cybercrime?
As a tool that collates and organizes resources, Gabay Tech’s platform is not redundant with (and does not seek to replace) existing legal, psychosocial, and technological systems against cybercrime; it instead addresses the gap between said systems and the masses trying to reach these systems from all walks of life–literacy, access, availability of time for research, and psychosocial preparedness.
Why was Gabay Tech developed and why did Pasig City agree to a roll-out?
One of the biggest hurdles for any LGU’s constituent seeking recourse is not knowing where to start.
This concern is not merely a concern on the availability of information and help-seekers’ literacy.
Underneath this hurdle are smaller, unnamed obstacles such as the accessibility of information, guidance against overwhelm, and psycho-emotional preparedness. Pre-existing resources are present, but with the promotion of the LGU, Gabay Tech bridges the gap between constituents and those resources without relying on the constituent to independently reach a conducive psycho-emotional state, lack of overwhelm, and extended internet access, among other unspoken pre-requisites to help-seeking.
With Gabay Tech, LGU constituents’ well-being takes top priority regardless of their current state.
How does Gabay Tech differ from organically formed communities that aid help-seekers?
While concerns and help-seeking vents abound in Reddit communities such as r/AdvicePH, r/LawPH, and r/OffMyChestPH, it can be overwhelming to those who have yet to take the first problem-solving steps or whose concerns are too numerous to address effectively without overwhelm on the parts of both the help-seeker and the communities overexposed to issues with differing details and expression but ultimately have the same legal, psychosocial, or technological concern.
Such communities are better utilized by help-seekers for addressing specific issues that have already gone through the initial problem-solving pipeline and for seeking social support.
In contrast, Gabay Tech provides a comprehensive resource guide for the most fundamental concerns and first steps all in one link.
How does Gabay Tech help LGU constituents and CGPH stakeholders uphold online safety?
The tool is not just another awareness campaign. It centers action.
Gabay Tech provides an organized and easy-to-follow flowchart of resources addressing the needs of victims and survivors holistically; it does so through the provision of:
- emergency numbers,
- links to filing criminal complaints and contacting law enforcement,
- guides on how to request removal of media and information on each social media platform,
- directories to social and mental health services, and
- practical preventive measures upholding online safety.
The flowchart structure and anonymity allow a speedy resolution of constituent concerns, preventing common obstacles such as confusion, overwhelm, shame, and oversharing on public advice communities that may aggravate the overall issue via psychological hypervigilance, social judgement, inapplicability of advice to a specific issue, and misinformation.
By encouraging its constituents to use the Gabay Tech platform, LGUs can easily uphold holistic protection against cybercrime on all fronts–civil, legal, psychosocial, and technological–and that’s exactly what’s been done by Pasig City.
Together, LGUs, Gabay Tech, the NMSWO initiative, and CyberGuardians PH break down online safety issues one specific action step at a time.
ACCESS GABAY TECH HERE: https://devgateway.github.io/digital-safety-guide/
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