Automating the barangay level
IN THEORY, it is possible to connect all
the 42,028 barangays in the Philippines to the internet, for as long as there
is a signal. As...
Sustainable development and climate change
THE PHILIPPINE Sustainable Development
Council (PCSD) and the Climate Change Commission (CCC) are two separate
government agencies.
The PCSD is under the National Economic
Development Authority (NEDA)...
Building smart
I AM NOT much of a fortune teller, but I am confident enough to predict
that sooner or later, perhaps in a few years, people...
Circular ecology and linkage economics
IF YOU have doubts whether climate change is real or not, that is up to you to decide, but it should not be too...
Democracy is participatory
PARTICIPATORY democracy is an oxymoron because democracy is supposed to be participatory in the first place.
Free enterprise could also be an oxymoron if a...
Traffic management
CONSIDERING that the traffic problem in Metro Manila is caused by multiple reasons, common sense would dictate to us that the problem would also...
A simplistic view of corruption
IT HAS BEEN said that discretion is one of the causes of corruption, because where there is discretion, there is corruption.
While that is completely...
Agile and mobile
AGILITY is not the same as mobility because not everyone who is mobile is agile. That is a very obvious reality, but I still...
My theory of connectivity
I USED TO SAY that for as long as there is a signal, I could deliver all online services to any point in the...
Activated charcoals and higher water tables
I BET YOU have never thought that there is an indirect correlation between activated charcoals and water tables, but indeed there is, and allow...