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Miguel Cordon · · 1 min readNas Academy apologizes to Philippine instructor
“Representatives of Nas Academy met with Whang-Od and other members of the Kalinga indigenous community on Sunday, October 24, to make a formal apology after the online learning platform’s much-publicized conflict with the acclaimed tattoo artist over an online course,” Rappler reported.
Details:
- The Nas Academy team was aided by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples-Cordillera Administrative Region. The government agency had previously said that the edtech platform had not taken Whang-Od’s consent before offering the course under her name.
- A representative from Whang-Od’s tribe relayed their elders’ request that the contract to be declared void. The request was affirmed by Nas Acedemy’s legal team.
Dive deeper:
- The latest development comes after Nas Academy halted its operations in the Philippines. Customers in the country were only able to access international creators while discussions with NCIP were ongoing during the time of the issue.
- Nas Daily CEO Nuseir Yassin said during this year’s Tech in Asia conference that content creators should embrace and get comfortable with handling this kind of resistance to create content they “truly and meaningfully believe in.”
Editing by Collin Furtado and Arpit Nayak
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