(Secretary) Dominguez
has called on local government units (LGUs) to adopt digital technologies in
tax administration and their other business processes in order for them to
build their revenue generation and mobilization capabilities under the new
normal…
He is saying LGUs can generate much more financing for
themselves via electronic means. When they are willing and ready to learn, the
DoF will gladly assist them:
(He) assured local
executives that the Department of Finance… and its attached agency – the Bureau
of Local Government Finance… – are prepared to support their respective LGUs in
modernizing and professionalizing the local treasury and assessment service,
and in helping them with their digital transition initiatives.
I’ll drink to that! my favorite Nescafé Brown. I am a work from home extension man except in
name, starting last year engaged in what I have conceived as communication for village development
2021 (CoViD21)
– and Mr Dominguez has set me thinking about the Agricultural Training
Institute (ATI) under new Director Rosana
P Mula, ATI being an agency under the Department of Agriculture (DA),
which is headed by Secretary of Agriculture William
Dar.
Training via ATI has always been radio-based, and now with
the information superhighway, knowledge can travel lightning fast. I want to revive Mr Dar’s 2004 Philippine Knowledge
Bank proposal when still Director General of the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); he called his brainchild “Open
Academy for Philippine Agriculture (OpAPA).” I was an OpAPA consultant, and
that is how I found out. ICRISAT is very much alive but, let me put it this
way, “OpAPA perished along the information highway itself!”
Now
then, let me entice Ms Mula with this thought: With knowledge available anytime
on the Internet, knowledge will show incredible power to anyone who taps it and
uses it for good, better, best.
Today we can reinvent OpAPA as “ATIn Ito” or “ATI
Information Network In Trade Options,” learning materials in crops, livestock
& industry available via the Internet, pointing out opportunities and
obstacles, inputs to outputs, processes & products, costs & returns.
To explain, below is my brainchild
“CoViD21_Information_Highway” scrambled list of crops A to Z, with search
results highlighted by different text colors – this is also a convenient
analogy in itself of the Knowledge Bank:
garlicavocadobananawaterlilycabbagecarrotcassavamangochayotechicocorncitrusverbenacoconutcoffeecowpeatobaccodurianeggplantgrapejackfruitindigosoybeanzinniajutekapokabacalanzoneslimabeannutmegonionpechayyampotatopomelocacaoquininerambutansantolstrawberryhorseradishsweetpotatotamarindricecaimitotomatomangosteenumbrellapinexiguafig
Searched & automatically unscrambled, among other
things, ATIn Ito shows you which crop/s to grow in location/s under which
circumstance/s. ATIn Ito is a DA open library to provide information on those
crops and their planting, cultivation, irrigation, fertilization, harvesting,
postharvest handling, storage, processing products, marketing etc. (The
original idea-book I wrote for OpAPA can be a starting point.)
Its
website says ATI today is “more committed to (bringing) you extension services
beyond boundaries.” Today I add: “Digital is perfect!”@517
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