February 2012
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Upgrade technology to boost productivity, small... →
““Technological capacity is the principal or the most prominent criterion of competitiveness,” said Sen. Edgardo J. Angara, keynote speaker of the National Conference Workshop on Technology Innovation, Quality, and Productivity for SMEs held at the University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries.”
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Public vs private – Arguing from different... →
“US traditional public and non-profit private tertiary institutions have frequently criticised their for-profit competitors for failing to ‘be like us’. The latter’s business plan does not complement the former’s self-anointed purity. If for-profits pursue an operating surplus or profit for their owners, it must be at the expense of academic quality, they surmise. “
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Death by Flavored Vodka ~ Akei | Partying Studies →
“If spirits writers and apocalyptic cults are right and the world actually ends in 2012, it will be because of the new wave of flavored vodkas that evoke a stream of childhood memories.”
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Young technopreneur shares his secrets of success... →
“From the classroom to the boardroom. Such was the path taken by Itemhound Corporation, a start-up company based at the DOST Open Technology Business Incubator in UP Diliman. Only a year after its incorporation in 2010, the company generated a 600% increase in revenues in 2011 and registered a net profit.”
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DSWD to launch knowledge exchange center Jan. 25 ~... →
“According to the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development, social protection refers to the policies and programs designed to reduce poverty by addressing problems on unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disabilit, old age, and others.”
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Blurring between public and private higher... →
“In past decades higher education in Slovenia has been characterised by increasing globalisation, market-orientation and the privatisation of public and growth of private institutions. But the difference between the public and private sectors is not as obvious as one might think, with the former looking increasingly like the latter.”
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Youth lack job opportunities, says UN report ~... →
“A lack of job opportunities, inadequate education and vulnerable working conditions are some of the main concerns of the global youth, according to a United Nations report prepared by direct inputs from young people.”
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New dev't model must emerge in Rio Summit, Brazil... →
“The so-called Rio+20 gathering “is a an exceptional opportunity in a world in which people are searching for new ideas and new processes… to implement a new development paradigm,” she said in an interview with AFP in Porto Alegre Thursday.”
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Academic Busking: Philippine Style ~ Akei | Higher... →
“Academic conferences offer opportunities to test-run ideas before like-minded colleagues, to network, and to key into conversations within one’s discipline or specialization. For many academics, it’s an integral part of the job. In my University’s promotion system, considerable weight is given to presenting papers at academic conferences. Whether local, national or international,...
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CNG jeepney ilulunsad ng DoE ~ Akei | Innovation →
“Bagama’t hindi nabanggit ng opisyal kung kelan ipatutupad ang naturang proyekto, sa ngayon aniya ay patuloy ang kanilang pagte-test sa bagong teknolohiya katuwang ang grupo ng mga mechanical engineer mula sa University of the Philippines.”
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Who's Telling You The Truth About Dating... →
“The online dating industry is a $4 billion business. And everyone from popular author Dr. Pepper Schwartz to mathletic OkCupid cofounder Sam Yagan is trying to crack the code for success. Business success. “
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One Big Database Could Save the Music Business... →
“In 13-plus years of writing about digital music all day, one of my favorite pieces remains “4 Reasons Music Needs One Big Database,” which argues that all of these MP3 blogs, music subscriptions, tweets, videos, streaming radio services, and so on are talking about the same set of music: the one that exists on planet Earth.”
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Don’t Suffocate The Innovation Economy ~ Akei |... →
“When old solutions are applied to new challenges, the results are never good.”
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Composer Seeks to Turn His Hallucinations Into... →
“Composer Alexis Kirke aims to turn his hallucinations into sound live in front of an audience, accompanied by a flute. The audiovisual composition, called Insight, uses an iPad camera app designed to help express hallucinatory disturbances.”
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14 Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy ~ Akei |... →
“Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. It’s time to bust up the ideology of control that has infiltrated every aspect of organizational life.”
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Salvacion Basiano receives 2012 UP Gawad Tandang... →
“Nanay Salve embodies the spirit of social involvement and voluntarism for the good of the community that Tandang Sora represented. She is the second recipient of the Gawad which started in 2010 with retired UP Professor Flora Celi Lansang as the first awardee.”
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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global... →
“In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor’s Alfred Sloan, HP’s David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE’s Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. In the 21st century only IBM’s Sam Palmisano has done so.”
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Reinventing the University ~ Akei | Higher... →
“”Americans are hungry for better alternatives, yet fearful of leaving the tried-and-true path,” wrote Think Tank blogger Jason Gots in a previous post. Andrew Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, believes passionately that online universities could fill that role.”
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The Cost of Free Culture ~ Akei | Music →
“Amid controversy over attempts to thwart online piracy, a Google lawyer proposes reforms to a system that satisfies no one.”
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Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll ~ Akei |... →
“The corporation isn’t a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to a study of more than six million firms by management professors Charles I. Stubbart and Michael B. Knight.”
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Is It Bias? Is It Legal? ~ Akei | Higher Education →
“Reports have also been growing of Asian-American applicants being so convinced that they will face bias in admissions that they won’t check any race/ethnicity box on applications, for fear of hurting their chances.”
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UPLB to hold 1st Southern Tagalog Arts Festival ~... →
“Propelled primarily by the mandate of the UPLB Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts to conserve, promote the region’s cultural and artistic expressions and to encourage the continued development of a pluralistic Filipino culture, the 1st Southern Tagalog Arts Festival will be a celebratory showcase to assert the role of the region not only in the context of the Philippine artistic...
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The 'Flip Side' of Open Innovation, Productivity... →
“Open innovation is gaining in popularity, but when should companies be concerned with protecting their own knowledge? Most people expect bad weather to negatively impact business conducted outdoors, but what are its implications in industries where work is primarily done inside? How can companies use risk management techniques to better assess the potential downsides of hiring contract or...
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UC system weighs shift in tuition payments to... →
“With public university administrators continually arguing for tuition increases to counter state appropriations cuts, it seems far-fetched that their budget problems could be solved by eliminating student tuition and fees altogether.”
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New research on cancer treatment ~ Akei | UP →
“Latest research on cancer treatment by the Institute of Biology at the University of the Philippines showed the use of immunoliposomes therapy, a more effective way than the current chemotherapy.”
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Measuring the Efficacy of the World's Managers ~... →
“Over the past seven years, Harvard Business School’s Raffaella Sadun and a team of researchers have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries. The goal: to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality not only across nations, but also across various organizations and industries.”
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The future of universities--Troubled halls ~ Akei... →
The tensions of modern education
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Bravo BLKD (Part 2 of 2) ~ Akei | Music →
“BLKD is an activist, inside and outside of the rap battle grounds. Aside from being a social work and community development major in UP Diliman, he is also currently the secretary-general of activist artist group Sinagbayan.”
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Will ASEAN be Swallowed Up by the Trans-Pacific... →
“The emerging metaphor for the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) is that of a swan: elegant, graceful and apparently motionless. But below the surface of the water, the swan paddles actively. Such was the Singapore’s Minister of Trade & Industry’s description of ASEAN’s protracted efforts to reach tariff-free status by 2015. ASEAN ministers met 41 times in 2011 to negotiate...
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From Microfinance to Metafinance: A New Tool to... →
“We call this exciting new intermediate type of financing “metafinance” because it helps groups of low-income households pool their collective resources into down payments, secure financing for local construction at affordable rates, and work in partnership with cities to link their homes to essential public services.”
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Why Education Publishing Is Big Business ~ Akei |... →
“On the heels of Apple’s big education and iBooks event, it’s worth taking a quick snapshot of the education publishing industry as it stands today.”
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The Mother Courage of Rock ~ Akei | Music →
“What caught my eye and made me save the clipping—besides the accompanying photo of her in a striped jersey, looking vulnerable—was her boast, “I’m one of the best poets in rock and roll.” “
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Cairo Contagion: Military Tracks Uprising’s... →
“The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis: Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator.”
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The Pull of Cities ~ Akei | Innovation →
“Current manifestations of urban studies of whatever stripe still tend to work within the old styles of thinking, although exceptions to this statement are now beginning to spring up.”
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Social Justice Revival ~ Akei | Higher Education →
“Colleges embrace social justice curriculum”
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Working with ‘next Brockas, Bernals’ ~ Akei | UP →
“Catbagan and De Rivera are BA Film and Audio-Visual Communication students at UP Diliman, along with Archie Dimaculangan and Franne Cheska Ramos who, with De Rivera, codirected another entry, Balang Araw.”
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Sway ~ Akei | Society →
“The diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks articulate the importance of the academy in the ‘great game’ of international politics. David Matthews investigates”
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New Management Principles for a New Age ~ Akei |... →
“So, what are the powerful principles of Web 2.0 which might help create Management 2.0? That’s a question an energetic and team of nearly 600 adventuresome practitioners and progressive thinkers from some fifty countries around the world have been wrestling with since November in the Management 2.0 Hackathon.”
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Not Out of the Woods Yet ~ Akei | Higher Education →
“While 2011 endowment returns make it look like investing is back to the good old days, colleges and universities aren’t in the clear yet.”
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A resounding success or a disastrous failure:... →
“In this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding success’ or a ‘disastrous failure’. Acknowledging from their own experience the inherent difficulties in studying drug law reform, Caitlin Hughes and Alex Stevens take the central competing claims of the protagonists...
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The 10 Most Educated Countries in the World ~ Akei... →
“In the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200%, according to Education at a Glance 2011, a recently published report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report shows that while education has improved across the board, it has not improved evenly, with some countries enjoying much greater rates of...
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Latin-Asian technological gap keeps growing ~ Akei... →
“New figures from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that Asian countries increased their number of patent registrations by 73 percent over the past 10 years, while Latin American countries increased their registrations by only 34 percent.”
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What You (Really) Need to Know ~ Akei | Higher... →
“A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are seen as the source for the newest thinking and for the generation of new ideas, as society’s cutting edge. “
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Friend or foe? ~ Akei | Music →
“Electronic music is not the enemy of classical music”
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Retirement and the Social Contract ~ Akei |... →
“Capitalism, labor, Marx; and the retirement age”
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Math Matters ~ Akei | Innovation →
“Another reason to care about how well American schools teach math: a country’s math skills are directly tied to its future wealth.”
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The Antiquated University ~ Akei | Higher... →
“At the New York Times’ “Schools for Tomorrow” conference, Larry Summers expressed his disappointment with our education system. The former Harvard President argued that, “The world is changing very rapidly… Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time.” He’s right.”