ICT and Sustainable Development: Leadership, Governance, and Innovation in the Knowledge Society

My friend Shiela is currently involved with the La Salle Institute of Governance, the International Academy of Chief Information Officers and the Asian Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications in organizing a conference about information communications technology and sustainable development.

Environment, natural resources, governance and information communications technology in a single conference? Interesting, right? The conference will be held on April 24-25 in Makati.

Please read on for more information.

The La Salle Institute of Governance, in partnership with the International Academy of Chief Information Officers and the Asian Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications, is organizing a conference on ICT and Sustainable Development: Leadership, Governance, and Innovation in the Knowledge Society on April 24-25, 2008 at the New World Renaissance in Makati City.


The event is being organized to promote strategic thinking on the value of information and communications technology (ICT) and leadership in fostering sustainable development in a rapidly evolving knowledge society. It will gather key leaders and ICT champions from the academe, government, private sector, development agencies, and the international community. The aim is to generate ideas and build partnerships in the areas of training, knowledge sharing, research and development, and policy reform toward creating better governance through the innovative use of ICT.


Interested participants can call (02) 527-1248 or 524-4611 local 524. You can also visit our website at www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/cio.


We have a conference fee of:


REGULAR
P4000.00 (2 days)
P2000.00 (a day)


SPECIAL (Government and Academe):
P3000.00 (2 days)
P1500.00 (a day)


DISCOUNTED FEE 10% off for group registration of 5 people or more.


THE REGISTRATION FEE will cover the following: lunches and mid-morning/afternoon refreshments and conference kits including a printed copy of the program and a CD of conference papers.


Thank you.

None such items in your supermarket

Proud to be from Castillejos!  Searching through blogs, particularly the “unofficial blog of SNA alumni”, I found an article about some delicious products from my hometown.

Castillejos jams, jellies, marmalades, pickles and fruits in syrup.  Mango, santol, guava, kalamansi, sampaloc.  Click here to view the Inquirer article.

“Castillejos Agrifarms Inc. is at 105 Edsa, Mandaluyong City; tel. 5314832 or 5315428; fax 5310838; and e-mail labrador@i-next.net.”

Congrats Shei, Liza, Okis! :)

Congratulations to my friends for successfully passing the 2007 Licensure Examination for Teachers. Yey!

Ms. Sheilani Boongaling Dagdagan

Ms. Liza Rose Ranjo Donato

Mr. Chrisostomo Antaran Articona

Environmentalists oppose Cavite project

The Philippine Star  

Local News

Environmentalists oppose Cavite project

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 05:34 PM

TERNATE, Cavite-Environmentalist group Kalikasan Foundation and the Ternatenios Against Land Fill is set to conduct tomorrow a rally to go up against the proposed landfill in the province.

Carmela Boren, Director of Kalikasan Foundation said that the group together with other non-government organizations will join the rally that will converge at the patio of Santa Nina church here at around 7:30 a.m.

Boren said that the propose landfill will contaminate the underground basin for fresh water reserve of ternate and will affect other neighbouring towns of Naic, Maragondon and Tanza. Arnell Ozaeta

 

Kate:

I love the environment.  I don’t want pollution.  I want to preserve the beauty of nature.  I don’t want to live in a world where technology takes over the environment.

However, reality must come into play.

I am not against the planned landfill in Cavite, provided that it is designed correctly and that it meets whatever requirement that our law stipulates (yes, we have a law pertaining to solid waste management – RA 9003).  Metro Manila has a very bad waste management problem.  Other cities and provinces must act now before it’s too late to address what is inevitable – wastes.

I just hope that the local government is ready for a real landfill, and not some ordinary dumpsite pretending to be capable of handling the huge amount of wastes generated by its people.  There’s a difference.  There lies the difference.  For if it would just be another dumpsite, then count me in as another person to oppose that proposed project.

Yes to more government role in population control and family planning!

The Philippine Star

CBCP hits P1-B condom fund

By Evelyn Macairan
Monday, October 8, 2007

 

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has called on legislators to spend on projects that would alleviate poverty and provide free education to poor children, instead of spending P1 billion for the purchase of contraceptives, CBCP president and Jaro, Iloilo Archbishop Angel Lagdameo said in a statement Saturday.

“We hope it is not true that Congress plans to appropriate P1 billion for the purchase of condoms, birth control pills and other ‘reproductive health’ products to control population growth. It if is true, we categorically object to it and instead strongly recommend that the one billion pesos be directly appropriated for hunger and poverty alleviation projects, as well as for free education of extremely poor children.”

He said using abortifacent and contraceptive pills are against nature and God’s teachings. The Church teaches that using these items is wrong because they destroy the fruitfulness of human reproductive capacities.

For the CBCP, the natural family planning method is the only morally acceptable way to practice responsible parenthood. 

The CBCP also debunked the census data released by the United Nations, which reported that the population growth rate in the country is 2.36 percent. Based on the National Statistics Office (NSO), the rate has only been pegged at 1.99 percent.

Lagadameo added, “We exhort our clergy to proactively preach the doctrine of the Church on principled population control. We strongly encourage and support our legislators in Congress and the Senate who promote the moral teachings on life, family and population.”