Tech, 5
GOOD governance is a two-way process that should involve the government on one side and the citizens, meaning the governed on the other side.
In...
Tech, 4
TO CUT a long story short, several online and mobile means are now available for the government and the people to virtually meet either...
Tech, 3
THE SUSTAINABLE Rice Platform (SRP) is a global initiative to ensure the continuing supply of rice worldwide forever, so to speak.
What is unique about...
Tech, 2
IT COULD be said that technology is a neutral element, meaning to say that technology could be used for good or for bad, depending...
Tech
WHEN I was still a career Foreign Service Officer (FSO) many, many years ago, I headed the science and technology programs of the Department...
Reverse the situation
FILIPINO farmers are still poor and right now, it does not look like they are going to be liberated from the clutches of poverty...
Trade in human capital
IT WAS about 30 years ago when the national government was in a denial stage, when it was openly and vehemently saying that we...
Graduating from poverty
SO THAT we could easily remember the five poverty indicators used in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), I developed a mnemonic device, FACETS (Floor,...
Corruption as business
BUREAUCRAT-capitalism is the practice of using the official capacity or authority of a public official for his or her private financial gain, by way...
Citizens and governance
A CITIZEN is also a customer, also a taxpayer and also a voter.
Every way, every which way, in whatever role capacity he or she...