Governance/government
PERHAPS many people would not know the difference between āgovernanceā and āgovernmentā, often thinking that these two terms are one and the same.
While the...
Beyond leapfrogging and pole vaulting
WHAT is bigger than a paradigm shift?
The answer to that is a sea change, period.
That settled, I am now looking for something that is...
Revisiting science and technology
WAY BACK during the Ramos Administration, there was a Science & Technology Coordinating Council (STCC) that was separate from, and other than the National...
Internet speeds and costs
(Continued from March 19, 2021)
I THINK that many of us will still remember that during the early days of the internet in the Philippines,...
Internet speeds and costs
INTERNET connectivity in the Philippines is very expensive because the telephone companies that are controlling the submarine cable landing sites are not willing to...
Autonomy and subsidiarity
THERE IS A profound similarity in the way that large-scale software programming works, and the way that nationwide political subsidiarity is supposed to work.
The...
āFlooringā
(Continued from March 6-7, 2021)
ONE WAY or the other, Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) would supposedly have a direct correlation with the Consumer Price Index...
Governance and social networking, 2
(Continued from Feb. 23, 2021)
AS I SEE it however, SNS is the greatest thing since sliced bread so to speak, especially when it is...
Household assets, 2
(Continued from Feb. 20-21, 2021)
IT GOES without saying therefore that the households within an intelligent settlement should have either access to or ownership the...
Household assets, 1
THE CONVENTIONAL method of measuring household poverty involves the use of an imaginary ābasket of goodsā, wherein the capability of a household to afford...