Devolution
(Continued from April 22, 2021)
FOR SO MANY decades now, the officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) have always been saying that they are...
Devolution
AMID talks of federalizing our system of government, the time has come now to revisit and review the devolution of functions to the Local...
Science for the people
(Continued from April 12, 2021 issue)
WATER security should be a goal that is apart from food security. We should clean our lakes and rivers...
Science for the people
A FRIEND asked me what should be done about Science & Technology (S&T) in the Philippines, and here are the ideas that I sent...
Governance/government
(Continued from April 8 issue)
AS IT IS SUPPOSED to be, there is also supposed to be a separate Barangay Development Council (BDC) that is...
Governance/government
PERHAPS many people would not know the difference between “governance” and “government”, 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...