Archive for February 2012

An IT Super Body

By | Published Monday, February 27, 2012


There are 3 recent news items that have caught my attention and should be of interest to all patriotic Pinoys and non-Pinoys unselfishly taking steps to move our country forward deep into the 21st century. 

The most recent is the article by Louella D. Desiderio of The Philippine Star writing about the creation of ICT Department. The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) is pushing for the approval of a bill that would create an agency for information and communication technology (ICT), citing it would help attract more investors and create more jobs in the ICT sector, an official of the group said. 

The second item, “An IT-driven government”, is written by Peter Wallace, a consistent “critic” of the Philippines by pointing out our “leadership” failures, but simultaneously advising how to overcome such weaknesses by proudly highlighting the native assets of the Filipino.

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FILIPINO

By | Published Tuesday, February 7, 2012

I find this piece of Peter Wallace so true that I decided to reproduce it in this blog, which I hope will be read together with my other article entitled: "Puede na Yan".
 
The Philippine Advantage

I have often wondered why the Philippines is so poorly regarded internationally (the lowest levels of foreign investment and smallest number of tourists confirm this).

There's so much that is attractive about the Philippines-but it's not known. The image of the Philippines is of bungling cops unable to break down a bus door so eight tourists die. The image of New Zealand is of a country that rescues, nurtures and sends a penguin back home to Antarctica. A country that cares is not careless.

You have an image of a country from minor events, not from in-depth knowledge. Well, the Philippines is not a land of bungling cops (Incidentally, I'd almost guarantee that the promised properly, professionally equipped, intensively trained rescue team has not been created. If it is, I'd like to see a demonstration), but of talented people who perform as well as, or better, in many cases, than anyone else.

The situation is so bad that at many events the Philippines is not compared poorly to elsewhere, it isn't compared at all. It's not on the list. I really have no simple answer to why this is so, despite I've thought and thought about it over the years. Here is a country with a warmth, hospitality and friendship you won't find anywhere else.

Multinational corporations tell me that their operations here are ranked up at the top on performance, efficiency, profitability amongst their subsidiaries around the world. That's reality. I can tell you loyalty of staff is incredible. My team thinks nothing of working way beyond eight hours if the client or project needs it. Of working years for us in a belief in what we do. That's a loyalty replicated in numerous companies Texas Instruments doubled its investment here because after a typhoon that devastated Baguio and many of TI's employees' houses, the employees were all back at work the next day.

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