Databases for posterity, 1
I LAMENT the fact that I have built so many databases in the span of my government service, but all of them are gone...
Automation and online learning
WE COULD have set our own goal to install a computer in every classroom – never mind the student to machine ratio – at...
Sensors, 2
IN THEORY, it could be said that sensors could be used for reading, measuring, monitoring, reporting and analyzing anything that has a value. That...
Sensors, 1
CITIES will become bigger in the future, it has been predicted. But no one is sure whether they will become safer or not.
Notwithstanding that,...
Gov’t belongs to the people and to no one else, 2
Fast forward to today, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) now makes it possible to quickly and regularly conduct surveys that would measure the pulse...
Gov’t belongs to the people and to no one else, 1
THE LATE American President Abraham Lincoln spoke about a “government of the people, by the people and for the people” in his famous Gettysburg...
Democracy is a two-way street
ASIDE FROM the right to vote, there are many other rights that are vested upon us as citizens of a democratic country, rights that...
Signal
NOWADAYS, there is always a way to have an internet signal everywhere, actually anywhere for that matter. There is no more limitation now as...
Subdivide a problem
I PREFER the way subsidiarity is defined in computer language, and that is to “subdivide a problem into many manageable parts”.
Using that definition, software...
Elements that form a value chain, 2
IN A MANNER of speaking, it could be said that the role of advocacy rightfully belongs to the private sector, and the role of...