Sunday, August 16, 2009

SONA 2009 (MIS)


The following are the areas related to ICT that was stated by our President during her SONA last July 2009.

1. ”Sa telecommunications naman, inatasan ko ang Telecommunications Commission na kumilos na tungkol sa mga sumbong na dropped calls at mga nawawalang load sa cellphone. We need to amend the Commonwealth-era Public Service Law. And we need to do it now….”


With this statement, Arroyo has promised to strictly amend and provide a law for the complaints about the missing load of Filipino people. And we all know that as of now, it is already practiced by some telecommunication companies of having a promo of a long expiring load and stopping of spammers to send spam text messages on anybody’s cell phone numbers.


“MANILA, Philippines - Prepaid credits of mobile phones – popularly known as “load" – will now have longer expiration dates after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued new rules on Friday.
Under Memorandum Circular No. 03-07-2009, loads with higher values will have longer expiration or validity periods, the NTC said. Credits worth P10 or lower will be valid for three days from the previous one-day expiration. Loads more than P10 up to P50 can be used for 15 days while credits worth more than P50 up to P100 will remain valid for 30 days. Loads more than P100 to P150 will expire at the end of 45 days while credits of more than P150 to P250 will last for 60 days. More than P250 to P300 will remain valid for 75 days while credits worth more than P300 will last for 120 days.”

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2069255.aspx


2. “Kung noong nakaraan, lumakas ang electronics, today we are creating wealth by developing the BPO and tourism sectors as additional engines of growth. Electronics and other manufactured exports rise and fall in accordance with the state of the world economy. But BPO remains resilient. With earnings of $6 billion and employment of 600,000, the BPO phenomenon speaks eloquently of our competitiveness and productivity. Let us have a Department of ICT….”

Yes it is true that BPO or Business Process Outsourcing can really help a lot on our economy’s growth. And with that idea of having an ICT Department, it would be surely a big help to all IT people specially us students for the improvement of our country’s technology.

3. “I have accepted the invitation of President Obama to be the first Southeast Asian leader to meet him at the White House, this week…. That he sought us the Philippines testifies to our strong and deep ties…. High on our agenda will be peace and security issues. Terrorism: how to meet it, how to end it, how to address its roots in injustice and prejudice—and most and always how to protect lives…. We will also discuss nuclear non-proliferation. The Philippines will chair the review of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation Treaty in New York in May 2010. The success of the talks will be a major diplomatic achievement for us….”

We all know that terrorism is one of the toughest issues on earth nowadays. And because of that, we should be very thankful if Arroyo could find a way to stop terrorism with the help also of the USA of course.


4. “In 2001, I said we would finance fully automated elections. We got it, thanks to Congress….”


Yes, the May 2010 automated elections is already imposed and it would be hard on the part on Filipino people who never knew how to operate computer though it is easy to learn and it can speed-up the result of the upcoming election. I’m sure that Arroyo’s statements above would make our country better in field of ICT but we are already used of government people who are already good on speaking but never better on implementing those.

http://www.karenveloso.com/2009/07/president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo’s-sona-2009/

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