(Continued from Nov. 27, 2018)
INDEED, life is a two-way street, and that is why I say that inventors could actually help the country, in as much as they also need help themselves for their own purposes.
Looking at this from another perspective, the government should extend help to the inventors as much as they could, so that these inventors would be empowered to help the government and the people as much as it could, going the other way.
I have always said that there is a technological solution for every social problem. Name the problem, and there is always a solution for it. For example, there should be a solution for traffic, garbage, pollution, floods, hunger, drought and crime, among others of course. As it is often said, if there is a will, there is a way.
With a population of over one hundred million, we should no longer be surprised if geniuses and super achievers are born among us, in large numbers even. In other words, we already have a very deep gene pool that we could draw from for whatever we need.
In so many ways, we have already done this in beauty contests and boxing matches. All we have to do now is to do this in patents, trademarks and copyrights that should be translated into products and services.
As of now, we are exporting our labor force by way of overseas jobs. In the not so far future however, we should already be exporting our products and services by way of information and communications technology (ICT) services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
There is no doubt in my mind that our deep gene pool could produce the people that are needed for these two industries.
I am honored to accept my nomination as Chairman of the Filipino Inventors and Innovators Society (FIIS). For a start, we have already established a working relationship with the Science and Technology Information Institute (STII), a DOST agency headed by Director Richard Burgos.
Hopefully, that relationship could be the start of good coordination between the FIIS, headed by Engineer Ronald Talion, and the national government agencies, primarily the DOST and the DTI. Hopefully, it could also include the Department of Energy (DOE), because many of these inventors have technologies that could be used for power generation by way of renewable sources. With the power that they could generate, they could also filter and desalinate water very cheaply, so that these could already be used for irrigation, among others. (iseneres@yahoo.com/PN)
