Inclusive development needs an innovation and entrepreneurship policy 332.0
The Aquino Administration ought to add entrepreneurship and innovation policy to its flagship programs to achieve inclusive development. To me, the two current flagship programs of public-private partnership focused on infrastructure and 4Ps through conditional cash transfers (CCT) as safety net for the poorest of the poor are necessary but not sufficient to achieve inclusive [...]
Kindle Fire locks and captures value as service in a walled ecosystem 331.0
The launch of Kindle Fire yesterday proved my futurology skills right as to the appropriate response by the e-reader leader, Amazon, to avoid collateral damage from Apple’s iPad tablet. I wrote about this strategic response in the January 30, 2010 post Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space just four days after the Apple [...]
ASEAN maritime security is better served by Asian collective security 330.0
I think the Aquino Administration is 100% correct in visiting Japan and discussing the Spratlys after sponsoring the first ever ASEAN Maritime security meet on the West Philippine Sea in Manila. We ought to initiate discussions on ASEAN maritime security with South Korea as well which is in the same boat as Japan as far [...]
Hapinoy takes two international awards in a month 329.0
Hapinoy, the supply chain innovator for Nanay-owned sari-sari stores, led by Mark Ruiz and Bam Aquino brought new honors home. They took two awards in the space of one month – the first for women’s empowerment and the second for social entrepreneurship. Congratulations! The first award to Hapinoy on August 24 was given by Project [...]
Reminiscinces – I was in America on September 11, 2001
The attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers, the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington D.C that fateful Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 is the international event of my generation. Most of us would remember where we were when it happened (the first attack was at 8:46 p.m. Manila time). In Las Vegas [...]
ASEAN integration needs political will from a sense of shared history 327.0
As an exercise in futurology, TrendNovation Southeast web magazine asked me in April 2011 to write a scenario template on the future of ASEAN integration fit to go into a Delphi process. The magazine is devoted to discussions of long-term technological, social and political trends in Southeast Asia. Linked here, the published article is entitled [...]
Creativity lessons from Miles doing a year of shopping from her closet 326.0
Studying Miles’s new blog, “365 Days of Shopping … In My Own Closet,” refreshed my learnings on creativity. Miles was a former student in entrepreneurial finance. This discovery led to a Facebook conversation on creativity that I re-post below and a new friendship as the teacher becomes the student. Miles’s creativity sparkles in her blog [...]
Libertarianism and the US$ via Eichengreen on Exorbitant Privilege
There is a thoughtful group of Filipinos who believe in Libertarianism. They would very much like for the ideology to be adopted in the Philippines. I have long discussions with some of them on Facebook on its aspects like size and role of government and individual liberty, taxes and a return to the gold standard. [...]
