Philippines an Outsource Destiny

OutSourcing the Poll Automation a National Interest. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

2009-07-07T00:52:00.000-07:00

The Good:

IN the age of information technology, the selection process for people seeking to lead the country is done best with automation. Human interventions is minimized thus, minimizes human error and cheating. Permutation of candidates used by most politicians to mark ballots are totally eliminated.

Take for instance poll a chairman who is prone to commit mistakes during the late part of manual counting of ballots. He or she will no longer have a change because ballots are fed to the counting machines so the human error due to human interventions is totally eliminated. On the other hand, people who cast their ballots and who happens to intentionally mark their ballots by permuting candidates can no longer do so because names of candidates are already in place. Thus, it will not allow the same to show proof to anybody which candidates he or she indeed vote.

It is apparent that automating the election is definitely a solution to an efficient and fast selection process.

The Bad:

It can also be bad for the people because the money that is used to automate could be used to build schools and hospitals. It can be also be used to buy medicines and food. In the Philippines, small amount that the government can save to spend just one meal for the poor people is a huge help. So it is critical that opportunity for poor people will not be compromised. Huge amount from the government coffers must go to the nutrition and health related programs. If a child dies from dengue due to the unavailability of medicines, then it's outrageous over misuse of funds due to effective servants being elected in spite the huge amount spent for poll automation.

The Ugly:

E-cheating is the new challenge that we are facing in the age of information technology. That is what electronic fraud is all about. It is cheating on the electronic level. Although manual cheating is eliminated, there is even quick but expensive cheating done electronically.

There are different levels of cheating electronically. First on the precinct level, anybody can access the system as long as it has administrator login and password. From there if one has the encryption algorithm it can easily decode the data using the identity matrix. To sum it up, you only need the admin login and password, encryption algorithm and identity matrix. Where can you obtain this? Well, Smartmatic knows all this but I don't believe Smartmatic will divulge this but wait... is it Smartmatic who is developing this program? No. The programmers of Smartmatic did. Do you know where they are? I'm sure no. But if you want to know how to break the system, you must pirate the programmers in Smartmatic. It is impossible to bribe this people but for a huge amount, it is possible. If 100 politicians will contribute 10 million each, that would be 1 billion pesos or 21 million dollars. For 10 programmers who core in developing the applications that would be 2 million dollars each. Is it huge enough? Yes of course! That's a lot mo money!

To safeguard the system from this possibilities, Smartmaticshould inform the Philippine government on how they prevent the leak of these keys.

tEchXODUS

2009-06-22T18:56:00.000-07:00

tEchXODUS from the Land of Milk and Honey to the Promise Land is on the way. In this modern exodus, many IT Companies are wondering where the Promise Land is. The prophecy is now based on the volume of companies and the direction it's heading to.

The Promise Land will now boil to the country who has the highest return from the investment and can do it in the shortest possible time of which the Philippines has the high head. Although most of the developing economies are baiting the tEchXODUS with the Efficient-InfraCost or efficient people, excellent infrastructure and cost effective labor rate, business results has always the final command. The Philippines has been welcoming generous amount of tEchXODUS and is showing to the global economy that it can accomodate more even double or tipple.

The archipelagic setting and geographical location of The Philippines is a big factor in determining the right direction of the tEchXODUS and it is exciting that the power of people equiped with invissible gold are spread across the archipelago. The wondering could end up in the next wave districts in The Philippines.

Electronic Commerce - Philippines Inner Explorations

2009-04-13T18:36:00.000-07:00

One of the magnificent talents that The Philippines business force is bent into is in the field of ELECTRONIC COMMERCE. Exploration has yet to upswing because only few had tried to take the risk. Now that it's paying off, many companies are now reconsidering outsourcing e-commerce development to The Philippines.

www.intheglo.com is an example of the magnificent talent that The Philippines IT experts truly have. It is the single handed developed e-commerce site. This brand new website combines video sharing, social networking and e-commerce into an e-market place that none has ever developed. It is launched in the central business district of the most powerful country in the world. Yet, The Philippine IT genius is behind it.

Companies who want to gain an initial edge in the race to sharp growth must reconsider inner exploration in the manificent talent that The Philippine IT experts have. Electronic commerce is untapped one.

Philippine PowerLines, Battle of the GIANTS!

2009-04-12T19:19:00.000-07:00

PowerLines is becoming a battle of the giants in the Philippine Telecommunications business. PLDT having a significant control of subscriber in wireless and landbase communication is taking control of giant electrict company. And talks is cerculating that Ayala Corporation wants a piece of Lopezes’ EDC.

Just recently, PLDT took control of MERALCO, the biggest electric company in the Philippines. The aquisition by the giant communication company seems divergent in short term. Is it? Yes! But it is convergent in long term. The same is true for the Ayala Corporation. What really is the reason why these two companies are into "Electric Rush"? Well, as I said "PowerLines".

"PowerLines" is a new technology for carrying data using the conductor used in the electric power transmission. This is a new technology that an internet service and telecommunications provider must have. Simply plug your lines in the electric outlet then you have the telephone or broadband internet service! Isn't it great? Yes! But not for PLDT and Ayala. It's still a battle.

PLDT is controlling the reservoir but Ayala is getting the source. Who will win? Is it the source or the reservoir? For me, it's a deadlock.

Philippine OutSource a Destiny, Business Force

2009-04-07T17:37:00.000-07:00

THE Philippines is an emerging outsourcing destination in the middle of the global battle to positioning sharp growth and business profit. Both international and domestic business community are now bracing the edge of the aggressive work force that The Philippines is rapidly producing.

The reason for the continuing rush to The Philippines is the sharp growth that businesses are enjoying as a result of sound decisions they have made several years ago. The global meltdown triggers even more.

E-commerce development, Web design and digital animation, Enterprise Resource Planning setup and support, Customer support and Telemarketing, Benefit processing and other HR services. These are the indispensable workforce that businesses need to outsource to The Philippines to position for sharp growth. It is much easy and straight forward for many companies. Most of them discovered that the skills of the workforce extends up to the understanding and practicing foreign culture. It is said that this fact has been practiced three centuries now and is handed from generations to generations. It is deeply rooted into the minds of the Filipino people through basic education on how The Philippines was handed from one colony to another. It is evident that part of being Filipino is being global.

In the middle of global economic meltdown, the international business community finds The Philippines resilient and even more beautiful destination to position for sharp growth.