Filipina on ITVJapan

I have been watching ITVJapan online interview broadcasts before to hear some views on business topics in Japan by some industry personalities both foreigner and Japanese.

And today I got excited to find out about Antonina Binsol, a Filipina guest on the Asian Connection segment. She is said to be an Assitant Manager at Mizuho Securities now. She was a Monbusho Scholar before and finished a PhD at Keio University.

It’s great to know the NPO organizations she is trying to help organize and facilitate together with some other OFWs from different countries.

Eh? “Thank God, I’m a Filipino!”

“Thank God, I’m a Filipino!” by Maoi Arroyo, I guess not related to GMA.

I will be working in India

Oh, not me for that matter. “India attracts Western tech talent“ reports about companies like Infosys Technologies starting to train new graduates from leading US universities for work in their company in India.

Related to this turning of events, do you remember the Thomasites teachers sent by the US to teach Filipinos and establish educational system? Sure the opposite is taking place now. When do you think will that time come where Filipino professionals abroad return to their country like the newly graduate Chinese in US universities to China?

For the present, there may be a good way where Filipinos abroad could make a difference to the Filipinos not only through remittances. What do you think would that be? I hope I know the answer.

Starting point to India’s IT Industry

Many countries can learn from India’s I.T. Industry, and that includes of course the Philippines.  National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) of India is a good starting point to know success stories, startup companies, human resource development, government policy and a lot more resources.

Philippine IT, Education, Biotech & Startup Organizations

If you have a project, research, business plan or would just like to connect in I.T., education, biotechnology or other fields and is seeking people for assistance and advice in the Philippines, here are some of the active organizations that you can contact.

Brain Gain Nework (BGN), Philippine Emerging Startups Open (PESO-MIT), Philippine Open Source Initiative Information Portal (Positive), Cebu Education Foundation for I.T. (CEDFIT), Hybridigm Consulting (Biotech), Laptop for kids (Frederick Kintanar).

Looking for developers?

Why is Joel so articulate and *more right* in his insights about software development and the people that composes it? In his recent writing entitled “A Field Guide to Developers“, he discussed topics about what attracts *great* developers.

Also in one of the forums there, one question asks why you visit Joel on Software. I think my answer would be because I seem to reverberate with that of Joel Spolsky’s beliefs, not beliefs I believe he originates, but one of those things I love to call “essential and right things generally not yet eloquently expressed, but felt and longed by the heart.“

Don’t you think this *value for the people* is a winning strategy for any organization?

Climb your highest mountains, no matter where they are.

I do believe there’s a great way, not yet eloquently expressed, but felt by the heart, that it’s okay for Filipinos to be great globally and yet win the Filipinos and the nation.

Here’s a great email from the mom of Sacha Chua, we can ponder upon.

What is Investments?

Oh, I’ll be starting a new blog, and I’d like to start right away posting. Let me introduce myself later instead. Hehe. One of the subjects I’d like to put thoughts and notes on with is Investments. If you find the subject interesting, please come join me in the learning journey.

I’d like to define Investments as taking part in putting our resources into something bigger that is not within our capacity to establish by ourselves within our given resources, skills, and time. We want to take part in capitalizing a venture. Of course we hope an income return from it.

For me, I think the subject is important because it would allow me to understand how the country’s market or industry works, even how the global market works.

I am reflecting as to why philanthrophists like that of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and our very own Filipino John Gokongwei have given up their fortunes to serve the common good at a later point in their life rather than along the way while they were accumulating them. (Maybe Bill Gates is still young.)

I am also reflecting on my NEC manager’s word then when he said that the capital market industry players are not really creating tangible assets or values.

All in all, I hope to see a world wherein those who are wealthier make good use of their wealth for the people, and that is, while they are still young and not only when they are about to leave this world.