Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad of the Liberal Party when he saw us off to Danao, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with NAMFREL. So lately, I found his transformation to traditional [...]
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Posted by admin on March 4, 2010 · 4 Comments
Difficult hurdles for tech-enabled social innovation in the Philippines Still, the benefits in making wholesale cheating difficult – the main purpose for automating counting and canvassing in this election – and getting the results quicker for the national officials may be well worth the hard work. For me, the most emblematic story on the management [...]
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Posted by admin on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]
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Posted by admin on February 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today Gmail gets the Buzz. The roll out is ongoing. Social media overtook email by volume of use within the past two years. Similarly, more and more people are asking their friends than searching on Google to learn about things that people ought know better. Two days ago, five out of the top twenty hottest [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with innovation, product development, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on February 8, 2010 · 3 Comments
Sets the bar in testing the candidates. I’m down to 4 choices. Crisply run and with clear-cut time constraints, it forced the debaters to speak to the point. The microphone was gently shut-off on the long-winded. Still, it captured enough meaningful sound bites. Held at the University of the Philippines National Theater before a full [...]
Posted by admin on February 7, 2010 · 7 Comments
Filipinos are engaged but Tech usability issues can disenfranchise. We have always been enthusiastic about elections with past participation around the 80% range. And Juan voter was well engaged at the Maharlika Elementary School in Taguig as voter, as BEI member, as monitor, as media and, as typical, kibitzer in mock elections to further test [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with change management, innovation, intensive learning, Philippines, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on January 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Pages and Potpourri. IntenseDebate for a community. Our first year anniversary is on February 25, 2010. I am furiously preparing the ground for a better new year, with two more improvements – adding pages to deepen content by indenting and threading and comment collaboration. I may have found my domain of choice after almost a [...]
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Posted by admin on January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Close-to-market innovations work best for the Philippines Reading yesterday’s issue (January 19, 2010) of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States of America affirms the correctness of my proposal for innovations in an emerging market like the Philippines to be in applications closer to the market than to science. [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, emerging markets, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, National Academy of Sciences
Posted by admin on November 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Awesome prototypes from a two-month course Three teams showed off their final prototype projects in a contest of technical, commercial and presentation skills yesterday. They had worked through an intense two-month new product development course that Prof Matt Escobido and I team-teach at the Asian Institute of Management. The winning team had an Apple iApp [...]
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Posted by admin on November 22, 2009 · 3 Comments
Oh to be Young and Able – the Web2Mobile Story! Globe Telecom Philippines is fortunate to have young techies develop potentially lucrative mobile applications for free – well, almost free having obtained true intellectual property in exchange for OJT-time pay. J. Allen Q. Santos and Oliver Ruth A. Dag – yes! these are there names [...]
Posted by admin on November 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST returns to PageRank 3/10 on Month Eight PageRank is the gold standard in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is Google’s view of a page’s importance on the Net. On its February launch, I built in ‘white hat’ SEO for SYNTHESiST – with key words stuffed in posts, right domain name choice, and static links. [...]
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Posted by admin on October 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
My hat’s off to the Makati Parking Authortity (MAPA) for investing in such innovative IT-enabled instruments. The photo at left shows the M-Pad used by a traffic warden at Legazpi Village to collect parking fees and print receipts. It has a large potential for cost savings in delivering parking service as remittance and accounting are [...]
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