Archive for the ‘ICT4D’ Category
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
If you find yourself in a Victory Liner bus and you have a complaint ....
Like, for example, an in-appropriate stupid violent horror movie being broadcasted in a bus with kids ...
Try contacting the Victory Liner hotline at 0917-Vicline (0917-8425463).
I filed my complaint via SMS and via phone call, and Victory ...
Posted in ICT4D | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
"Plug it!", the ad says.
"Magaling!" That's what I can say about Smart Bro's latest Internet connectivity solution.
ANYWHERE BROADBAND!
It's the new SMART BRO PLAN 799 - the plug-it anywhere broadband!
The newest plan from Smart BRO - Plan 799, allows you to surf the net anywhere there's a PC! The Smart BRO ...
Posted in ICT4D, Nets, Webs, Infostructure | 10 Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
A friend from way back in highschool and college recently released her book. Catch it and get a perspective of telecommunications liberalization in Malaysia (btw, I'm in Malaysia now) and in the Philippines (btw, my heart is in the Philippines now). :-)
GETTING A DIAL TONE
Telecommunications Liberalization in
Malaysia and the Philippines
By Lorraine ...
Posted in ICT4D | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Got this from colleague Erwin Alampay ....
SMS Competition for NGOs
kiwanja.net have just launched their latest mobile initiative - nGOmobile ?
a competition which encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to
submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. The best
four entries will win laptop computers, Nokia phones, GSM ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Colleague John Owens from RBAP MABS keeps me attuned with developments in their mobile phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
John's group has a website ( Mobile Phone Banking for clients of Rural Banks - http://mobilephonebanking.rbap.org/ ) that brings together information about Mobile Phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
They have information about the different ...
Posted in ICT4D, m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 12th, 2007
My brother, Elmer, was on the Inquirer front-page with a story on how to spread e-learning through the "tsinelas-net".
Here's an excerpt:
BAGUIO CITY—Educators can learn a thing or two from their friendly neighborhood DVD pirates, according to an information technology company (IT) based here.
With the shortage of classrooms, teachers could record and ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, ICT4D | No Comments »
Monday, November 27th, 2006
I wrote a book for an e-Primers project with my former office, Digital Philippines Foundation in partnership with UNDP-APDIP.
A few weeks ago, I received an email informing me that my book entitled "Nets, Webs and Information Infrastructure" is on wikibooks.org.
Wikibooks is a platform for the collaborative development of free ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
PLDT and Smart are aggressively marketing their Internet shop franchise packages at the malls.
The Internet shop franchise packages include:
PLDT myDSL Internetcafe+
Smart Bro computer station
Smart Click Internet & more
Netopia
(For a quick rundown, see Internet Cafe franchises on eOFW)
I like these developments in Internet shop franchising. I like it because there is ...
Posted in ICT Industry, ICT4D | 28 Comments »
Monday, September 4th, 2006
So reads the title of an article on BusinessMirror. The Philippine Center of Entrepreneurship is inviting investors to setup Internet café businesses in the 90% of barangays in the Philippines (45,000 barangays) that are “waiting to be tapped for Internet-based businesses.”
This is one thrust of the TechnoNegosyo technology entrepreneurship expo ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, ICT4D | 18 Comments »
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
On the Living Asia Channel last night, there was a feature story about a high school in a remote island in Bohol that has a Solar Powered Internet Cafe. How kewl is that?
First Solar powered Internet Café in the Philippines
Talisay, Cabilao Island, Loon, Bohol
Solar power is used to store electricity ...
Posted in ICT4D | 9 Comments »
Monday, July 10th, 2006
I have some updates in my long dormant blog, eOFW.
I listed some remittance services.
And I changed the theme. Yun lang ...
ka edong
edong-OFW
Posted in Blogging, ICT4D | No Comments »
Friday, June 16th, 2006
My brother, Elmer, is on Inq7.net:
Davao considering web tool for participatory governance
A Davao City councilor who started blogging this year to promote participatory governance among his constituents has started exploring another web technology, dubbed "wikislation."
Prompted by a project led by Dr. Elmer Soriano of local firm Thinklab Solutions ...
Posted in ICT4D | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Excerpt From a press release for Panibagong Paraan which I wrote about last week (Ideas on Parade):
P52 million Await Winners of Multipartner Project Grant Competition
MANILA, MAY 22, 2006 - A total of P52 million in grants coming from the
Philippines’ nine local and international development partners, including the
World Bank, ...
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
In August 2003, I went to a parade of brilliant ideas in Megatrade Hall, Megamall. It was the first "Panibagong Paraan" -- a marketplace for innovative ideas for Philippine Development.
The organizers (a consortium of grant giving bodies) received thousands of innovative ideas and shortlisted them to around 50 finalists. ...
Posted in ICT4D | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Community E-Centers
On a related note, there are a couple of local and international projects that aim to setup community e-centers in rural areas. There have been a couple setup by … DOST or TELOF, I believe. It wasn’t a rousing success. To say the least, it wasn’t rousing at all. ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
There was an article yesterday on the Inquirer about Smart Communications’ inauguration of Smart Click – an Internet-shop-in-a-box (more precisely, container vans). These Internet shops will cater to the most remote barrios in the country. They started off with Basco, Batanes and will be installing more in Aurora, Tarlac, Laguna, ...
Posted in ICT4D | 8 Comments »
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog: Smart Clicking in Batanes
Smart Communications recently launched a service dubbed “Smart Click – Internet and more”.
The shops will provide the common internet shop services such as web surfing, chat, printing, network games etc. The difference is the location of these shops. Smart Click aims to bring Internet-shops-in-a-box ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
The Stockholm Challenge is a global networking program for Information and Communcation Technology (ICT) entrepreneurs. It demonstrates how information technology can improve living conditions and increase economic growth around the world.
Thirteen ICT initiatives from the Philippines made it to the finals joining a crop of 149 teams ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Had a chat with a friend. He was surfing and searching and found my article about Smart WiFi in Cuyo (Smart WiFi Wondering, July 26, 2005).
I’m excited about connecting remote areas of the Philippines with Smart WiFi. If, in the past, the requirements to bring internet access to an area ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, ICT4D | 13 Comments »
Friday, March 10th, 2006
I asked my friend based in Batanes if they had Smart WiFi.
He replied: Yes, we've been using Smart WiFi. There are at least 40 subscribers in Basco to date.
Smart WiFi has reached the northern-most islands of the Philippines.
I: How is the Internet service? Any downtimes?
He: Speed is ...
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