UNIDA PRIMER (Fifth of a Series)
NO HOLDS BARRED (055) February 23, 2010
By Ike Señeres
UNIDA PRIMER (Fifth of a Series)
Q. What is the correlation of poverty to hunger?
A. The high incidence of hunger in the Philippines is directly related to the high incidence of poverty. We believe that as we graduate people away from the poverty line, they will have the means to buy the food that they need.
Q. What is home based farming?
A. Home based farming is an UNIDA program that encourages people in a community, under the leadership of the cooperatives, to grow any fruit or vegetable, or any animal product, for their own consumption, and for the purpose of selling their surplus production to the buying stations.
Q. How will the buying stations support home based farming?
A. The buying stations will serve as the nearest location where the local people in a community could sell their fresh crops or harvest. After these are purchased by the buying stations, the crops or harvests may be passed on to the cooperative processing facilities, where these are converted into processed goods with a higher value added.
Q. What is LETS?
A. Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is an international barter trading system that will enable local community members to trade in or barter anything of value in exchange for value points. These value points may in turn be redeemed in exchange for goods or services of any kind, including food items. As earlier mentioned, all recyclables could also be sold to the buying stations under LETS.
Q. What is the common denominator of all UNIDA infrastructures?
A. Connectivity is the common denominator of all UNIDA infrastructures. Good connectivity is the critical resource that is needed to deliver and sustain eCommerce, eLearning and eHealth.
Q. How does UNIDA define connectivity?
A. UNIDA defines connectivity as the availability of the means to connect to computer networks, mobile networks and television networks. Under this definition, the Internet is considered as a computer network. Cable TV and satellite TV are both considered as television networks.
Q. What is the common denominator of all the UNIDA solutions?
A. Productivity is the common denominator of all the UNIDA solutions. We envision livelihood as the main engine of productivity, complemented by education because people could not be productive if they are not educated, and by health, because people could not be productive if they are not healthy.
Q. What is the correlation between connectivity and productivity?
A. Higher productivity could not be achieved without connectivity, since good connectivity is the critical resource that is needed to deliver and sustain eCommerce, eLearning and eHealth.
Q. What is the correlation between convergence and productivity?
A. On the political side, convergence has to be achieved between industry, the citizenry and the bureaucracy. On the environmental side, convergence has to be achieved in the restoration and preservation of our land, air and water resources.
Q. How can convergence happen on the political side?
A. The political convergence has to be spearheaded by the citizenry, led by the academe. The academe is in possession of the sciences and technologies that are needed for productivity. The cooperation of industry and the bureaucracy has to happen at the community level, by way of projects.
Watch KA IKING LIVE! Thursdays 7pm to 8pm in Global News Network (GNN), Channel 21 in Destiny Cable. Email iseneres@yahoo.com or text +639293605140 for local cable listings. Visit senseneres@blogspot.com
By Ike Señeres
UNIDA PRIMER (Fifth of a Series)
Q. What is the correlation of poverty to hunger?
A. The high incidence of hunger in the Philippines is directly related to the high incidence of poverty. We believe that as we graduate people away from the poverty line, they will have the means to buy the food that they need.
Q. What is home based farming?
A. Home based farming is an UNIDA program that encourages people in a community, under the leadership of the cooperatives, to grow any fruit or vegetable, or any animal product, for their own consumption, and for the purpose of selling their surplus production to the buying stations.
Q. How will the buying stations support home based farming?
A. The buying stations will serve as the nearest location where the local people in a community could sell their fresh crops or harvest. After these are purchased by the buying stations, the crops or harvests may be passed on to the cooperative processing facilities, where these are converted into processed goods with a higher value added.
Q. What is LETS?
A. Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is an international barter trading system that will enable local community members to trade in or barter anything of value in exchange for value points. These value points may in turn be redeemed in exchange for goods or services of any kind, including food items. As earlier mentioned, all recyclables could also be sold to the buying stations under LETS.
Q. What is the common denominator of all UNIDA infrastructures?
A. Connectivity is the common denominator of all UNIDA infrastructures. Good connectivity is the critical resource that is needed to deliver and sustain eCommerce, eLearning and eHealth.
Q. How does UNIDA define connectivity?
A. UNIDA defines connectivity as the availability of the means to connect to computer networks, mobile networks and television networks. Under this definition, the Internet is considered as a computer network. Cable TV and satellite TV are both considered as television networks.
Q. What is the common denominator of all the UNIDA solutions?
A. Productivity is the common denominator of all the UNIDA solutions. We envision livelihood as the main engine of productivity, complemented by education because people could not be productive if they are not educated, and by health, because people could not be productive if they are not healthy.
Q. What is the correlation between connectivity and productivity?
A. Higher productivity could not be achieved without connectivity, since good connectivity is the critical resource that is needed to deliver and sustain eCommerce, eLearning and eHealth.
Q. What is the correlation between convergence and productivity?
A. On the political side, convergence has to be achieved between industry, the citizenry and the bureaucracy. On the environmental side, convergence has to be achieved in the restoration and preservation of our land, air and water resources.
Q. How can convergence happen on the political side?
A. The political convergence has to be spearheaded by the citizenry, led by the academe. The academe is in possession of the sciences and technologies that are needed for productivity. The cooperation of industry and the bureaucracy has to happen at the community level, by way of projects.
Watch KA IKING LIVE! Thursdays 7pm to 8pm in Global News Network (GNN), Channel 21 in Destiny Cable. Email iseneres@yahoo.com or text +639293605140 for local cable listings. Visit senseneres@blogspot.com
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