SONA 2012

Last Monday, July 23, 2012, the president of the Republic of the Philippines received more positive feedbacks in his third State of the Nation Address. Stated there were the improvements and the changes of our nation under his regime that covers the Education, National Defense, Tourism, Health and many more.

In terms of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), he mentioned the Project NOAH, also known as National Operational Assessment of Hazards, a system developed to help mitigate the effects of natural disasters in at-risk area. This technology gives fair warning to Filipinos in order to prepare in every disaster and to avoid it by getting worst. It is accomplished by putting 86 automated rain gauze and 28 water level monitoring sensors in various regions. This project greatly help every individual especially those who were always affected by floods and other disasters. By having this kind of technology in our place, we will never worry that much about how we will cope up and how we can prevent the calamity.

Another area related to the ICT from the address of the president was the increase number of people employed by the BPO also known as the Business Process Outsourcing here in the Philippines. From the 5,000 people in the year 2000, it increases to 638,000 people who were employed by the BPO that contributed 11 billion dollars to the economy. Among the scope of the BPO were the Call Center industry in the Philippines and the Software Development and Animation. If the employment here in the Philippines will increase yearly, the rate of unemployed will decrease, thus making Philippines a poor less country.  

The last thing is the TESDA Specialists Technopreneurship Program that delivered concrete victories. From 5,240 specialists who were earning 562 pesos a day or 11,240 pesos a month which is considered higher than the minimum wage. If this program will continue to strive, more and more Filipinos will never worry about having no job at all.