The first thing that caught my eye was the word "techdems" in the web site address. I am sure you have your own reasons for using it, but this term is being used also by a volunteer group of technology professionals supporting the Democratic party campaigns in the US, even as early as the 2004 presidential campaign. I Googled the word and I got these two sites, which you may wish to visit: http://www.techdems.org/ and http://www.washblog.com/story
But I fully agree and support your own call for Filipino technology volunteers to share their knowledge, expertise, time and other resources to help improve our people's lives -- to empower them and make them more productive citizens. This is great! Congratulations for initiating something like this. It is an initiative that we need now and which I believe whose time has come. We have so much potential as a country and as a nation, but it seems we have not been able to fully exploit and put to productive use these potentials to effect change -- change (sorry for borrowing this phrase) we can believe in. Knowledge and technology exchange could certainly make a difference. And the greater challenge is how to get these to the right people at the right time. I know there are hundreds, no thousands of Filipinos out there who are just waiting for an opportunity and the right motivation to help in this kind of effort. Remember the word "Bayanihan" which we invented?
Again, congratulations for coming up with something like this (but let's just make sure the blog address is not mistaken as supporting the US Democratic campaign).
Cheers!
Danny F. Pabellon
Assistant Director-General
National Economic and Development Authority
E-Mail: dfpabellon@neda.gov.ph
Gmail address: dannypabellon@gmail.com
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Tel. No.: (632) 631-37-29
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Time Has Come For Techdems
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Thanks Danny. We'll all work toward building our brand. We're the TECHDEMS of the Philippines.
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