The Philippines ranks at the very bottom—where it is tied with Bangladesh—of a recent survey of IT competitiveness in R&D. This means less R&D takes place in the Philippines (0.0) than in Indonesia (0.1), Sri Lanka (0.1), and Vietnam (0.2).
The Philippines ranks at the very bottom—where it is tied with Bangladesh—of a recent survey of IT competitiveness in R&D. This means less R&D takes place in the Philippines (0.0) than in Indonesia (0.1), Sri Lanka (0.1), and Vietnam (0.2).
From BWorld Online: Pinoy Teens top Asian Peers in terms of Internet Use
My comment: the article below from BusinessWorld states that we use the internet more but I worry that we use it to "waste too much time".
Bworld Article by Jessica Anne D. Hermosa
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 ...
In a day and age when “virtual” friends are as important as the “live” ones you have coffee with once a week, creating the appropriate online persona and cultivating a fruitful online social network become imperative. Gone are the days when colleagues and clients have no clue about our lives outside work and about how we spend our weekends. These days, everyone knows what everyone else does, eats, wears, loves and hates.
