Enforced empathy
By Marvin Tort
Secretary Giovanni “Banoy” Lopez ordered his subordinates at the Department of Transportation (DoTr) to commute by public transportation at least once a week. The...
Proposal to cut up to P400B out of proposed budget 2026
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
My hypothesis on the ongoing corruption scandal in the country: As the size of the budget goes up yearly, the extent of corruption and...
Old dogs and old tricks
By Tony Samson
IS ADVANCED AGE a barrier to providing value to an organization?
CEOs appointed in their mid-forties to take over a company under an orderly succession...
Papal guidelines on artificial intelligence: As situations change, give greater importance to generating employment
By Bernardo M. Villegas
(Part 4)
In the space of five months since Pope Leo XIV was elected Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, applications of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Trust, Trade, and Values: The deepening EU-Philippine economic partnership
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
This week, representatives of select European companies are in Manila for the annual EU-ASEAN Business Mission. They will hold high-level meetings with National Government...
The ABC of fighting corruption: How AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity can rebuild trust in...
By Donald Patrick Lim
Corruption remains the Philippines’ most persistent and corrosive challenge. It diverts resources from schools, hospitals, and roads; undermines investor confidence; and erodes the public’s...
Freezing the funds and fruits of flood control: An overview of the effects and...
By France Kevin T. Degamo
The flood control fiasco has permeated our daily lives, consistently making its way to headlines, conversations, and in typical Filipino humor. It has become...
Finding an appropriate industrial policy in the knowledge economy
By Niceto S. Poblador
Industrial Policy (IP) in the Philippines started at the end of the World War 2 with a regime of regulated free trade with the...
Coal for energy security, infrastructure for energy resilience
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Last Friday, Oct. 10, I attended the press conference of the Department of Energy (DoE) with Secretary Sharon S. Garin and several DoE undersecretaries...
AI promises productivity. It’s delivering ‘workslop’
MOST OF US have encountered “AI slop,” the deluge of low-quality content produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that has inundated the internet. But is this computer-made hogwash taking over our work as well?
Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years...
By Cameron Shackell
The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution.
But before...
Devolution, not revolution
By Victor S. Limlingan
Queen Elizabeth I is supposed to have remarked that she did not like wars as they have uncertain outcomes. Likewise, I do not like...