P-Noy is 1st Asian leader in YouTube World View

MANILA, Philippines - Watch history unfold as Pres. Benigno Aquino III answer citizens’ questions through a live chat session via YouTube World View series today at 1 p.m., to be streamed live online via abs-cbnNEWS.com. 

As part of efforts to involve the most number of citizens in public discussions, ABS-CBN will also be offering its trademark online live chat at abs-cbnnews.com/askpnoy to give the public the chance to react real-time to the President’s answers. 

Pres. Aquino is the first Asian leader to be interviewed in series spearheaded by YouTube and Google, following world leaders US Pres. Barack Obama, UK PM David Cameron and Spain PM Jose Luis Zapatero. The YouTube World View gives people opportunity to ask world leaders on topics ranging from education, energy to global health. It made an online breakthrough as it premiered online in January. 

The PNoy interview shall be conducted by Google moderator Ross LaJeunesse, director of public policy and government affairs for Google Inc. in Asia-Pacific and former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To date, the World View series has featured nearly a dozen world leaders from the USA, UK, Spain, Mexico, and Rwanda. Obama was the first to undergo the series and his interview attracted nearly 800,000 votes on over 14,000 questions and had over 2.2 million page views. 

Watch the replay of the interview on ANC come Monday night at 7.