Insights from the recently concluded Plug and Play at the 10th eServices Global Outsouring Conference last February 8-9, 2010.
Insights from the recently concluded Plug and Play at the 10th eServices Global Outsouring Conference last February 8-9, 2010.
A reposted blog entry from http://tidbittitbits.blogspot.com. To view original post, click here.
Author's note: This was a moving, personal reflection from last week's first networking mixer with the Filipino Entrepreneurs Network (FEN).
Before anything else, let go of your easily-prickable Pinoy pride for 15 minutes and read (or re-read) Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness.
“Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: the barangay. Geography for the Filipino is a small locality: the barrio ...
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As a noun, keel refers to a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull to provide stability. Used as a verb, it means to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.
In ascribing Bill Luz as a keel meant for me that he brought his abilities to “upset” and to turn the wrong side of the Philippines and the Filipinos into something positive and pro-active so that the “stability” we all yearn and dream for is indeed possible.
Sachin Dabir, Sr. Manager at Red Hat Asia Pacific, poses an interesting question in his blog and he asks: “Why Indians can not make good IT products, but make good solutions.” Is it the same for us Filipinos?
Why is it that, unlike in India, there are very few IT/Tech companies (specifically software companies) in the Philippines have gone global.
An innovation junkie indeed, Mark Joaquin Ruiz is one of those gifted people who sees the opportunities presented by the challenges or limitations set by structures, institutions and systems in Filipino society.
By embracing and committing to fulfill visions for a better country and a better society, Mark and his friends (the Why Nuts of the Why Not? Forum) urge all Filipinos to "think new thoughts, share big dreams and do brave things."
