Diliman Diary Blog: 12.06.2012

Social networking has given power to many internet users in terms of voicing their opinions. It has made a lot of things possible –getting a certain number of signatures for petitions became faster and people no longer had to directly spend money to communicate to anyone thanks to private messaging capabilities of social networking sites.

Although this freedom is being enjoyed completely in other parts of the world, in some countries, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are banned. We could say we are lucky really but just yesterday, in a country where mass media has so much freedom, a friend of mine was blocked by the news channel ANC just because he said the news they posted is irrelevant. He added in his comment however that this is hardly surprising because ANC is a corporate-owned news outlet and that it is only interested in getting ads in or sponsors and not necessarily give importance to news itself.

It seems that the media in the Philippines specifically ABS-CBN has a tendency to feed crap to the masses and also have the audacity to not broadcast news that would hurt their interests.

The 3rd Eye on the Social Media: Facebookers comment on U.P. President-elect Alfredo E. Pascual's Vision for Leading U.P.

Excerpts from the Facebook Page of: "Messages to New UP President Alfredo E. Pascual."
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Messages-to-New-UP-President-Alfredo-E-Pascual/172909116063538?v=wall )

Abe Agulto: Can you please post in this platform his agenda for his term? Just want to know what to expect. Hope this request comes through.
Friday at 10:34pm
Romeo Santos likes this.

Chanda R. Shahani: Hello there this may not yet be the implementing details many are interested in, but at least here's his vision for U.P. as per the U.P. website when he was still a nominee: http://www.up.edu.ph/pdf/nominees/AEPascual_Vision_Paper.pdf
23 hours ago

Abe Agulto: Thanks. The roadmap the new president mentioned should be publicized and adopted by all sectors of the UP community. Can we see this soonest?
13 hours ago

Romeo Santos: I suggest that the Roadmap for Development (the Proposed 10-Year Development Plan) come with a built-in monitoring and evaluation framework (M&E), designed to determine its performance during and after implementation. It will serve as a management tool that will guide in achieving the set Goal and Objectives of the plan -showing whether implementation is failing or succeeding based on empirical evidence measured from results and not just from outputs. Without this mechanism in place, the business of governance will be kind of ‘guessing game’ and management -a day-to-day survival. The M&E shall be part of the policy/plan formulation at the very early stage. In fact, it should be a major building block in establishing the Goal (Vision), Objectives and desired Results of the Roadmap vis’ a vis the new UP Charter.

At this moment, the President must be working terribly hard to put in place the promised development roadmap -in time for his taking on the helm of the University in February 2011. His constituents could only wait with enthusiasm in seeing how this Plan will come about -in substance, form, and details. If this 10-Year Development Plan comes out, not with shallow details but, a definite and decisive blueprint identifying in specific terms what targets, what actions, and what results are expected, then, that is the only time we can say that a “clear road map is firmly in hand” to begin with.

We could only hope that the Roadmap will not be the typical, ambiguous, motherhood-statement type of plan that characterized the development initiatives of many administrations in the past.
12 hours ago

Post your messages to the incoming U.P. President Alfredo E. Pascual at this Facebook Page

(U.P. President-elect Alfredo E. Pascual 

at Quezon Hall, U.P. Diliman. 

Photo by: Ice Morales)

Editor's note: Readers who may wish to post messages or other statements for the attention of incoming U.P. President Alfredo E. Pascual may do so at the following Facebook page entitled, "Messages to New U.P. President Alfredo E. Pascual" located at this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Messages-to-New-UP-President-Alfredo-E-Pascual/172909116063538?v=wall

Note: Facebook membership is required in order to access the above link.