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EDSA: A Microcosm of How We Manage Our Infrastructure and Transportation Development in the Philippines
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June 25, 2024
Stretching 24 kilometers across Metro Manila’s heartland, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue or EDSA is undoubtedly the most traversed, used, and abused highway in the country. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said over 400,000 vehicles passed through it daily in 2023, exceeding its 300,000...
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Empowering Whistleblowers
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June 18, 2024
As the world prepares to observe another World Whistleblowers Day on June 23, 2024, it’s imperative to reflect on the evolving dynamics of corporate accountability and the indispensable role whistleblowers play in unveiling wrongdoing. Amidst deliberations concerning corporate governance and transparency, the Philippines finds itself at...
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AI Misuse is Making Our Youth Ignorant and Deceitful
MAPping the Future
June 17, 2024
During the last academic term, after over 40 years of teaching, I noticed something remarkable—all my students’ term papers were written in impeccable English. This starkly contrasted to the usual mix of clarity and confusion I had come to expect. And yet, while the flawless...
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Empowering Women Through Financial Education
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June 11, 2024
We often assume that women, like men, are fully equipped and have the financial savvy to plan their personal and business finances. However, various studies have observed the reality that there is a gender gap in financial literacy that persists globally, and which poses challenges...
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Be Careful What You Wish For (Thoughts on AI)
MAPping the Future
June 10, 2024
“Regulate AI!” I often hear this call from well-meaning crusaders who fear that artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that was developed to help man, might end up controlling him. Strangely, the present screams for regulation worry me as much as the evils that AI can...
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A Plastic-Free Future
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June 4, 2024
A plastic-free future really starts with us — in our homes, in our place of work, and wherever we conduct business like stores and factories. We have already read about plastic leaching into our groundwater, and we hope for plastic-free fish and food, in general. What...
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Philippines Rising (Redux)
MAPping the Future
June 3, 2024
There is electricity in the seeming rarefied air of the Stanford University campus. Two mantras always come to mind as I walk in its expansive campus with verdant trees and temperate weather. One is, “Move fast and break things.” Serving as a vital cog in...
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