Sate of the Nation Address 2008(SONA 2008)

Good Day!

State of the Nation Address(SONA) is a yearly program of our President. In her SONA last July 28,2008, she said about some ICT she has planning to do and has been done. In her SONA I cited 2 related in ICT:

1st:
"Texting is a way of life. I asked the telecoms to cut the cost of messages between networks. They responded. It is now down to 50 centavos. "

-> In this part of her SONA I was happy to hear that, but as i heard in the news that the 50 centavo rate of texting is only a promo. The telecom company said this is a promo that will end on September or October, I'm not sure of the exact month. It was quite disappointing.


2nd
"Our P 350 million training partnership with the private sector should qualify 60,000 for call centers, medical transcription, animation and software development, which have a projected demand of one million workers generating $13 billion by 2010."

-> Wow, this is a good program that we techy guys want to have. It is true that only India our strong competitor in this field. For me this program it can give many opportunities for us. I hope that this will be successful and will help us in the future.

In addition,the SONA talks more about the food crisis and energy crisis. President Gloria said that this crisis is global and they have no control of this crisis.