How About PH DA Setting Up Satellite-Based Internet In The Countryside?

If the Internet were cheaper, faster and available even in remote areas in the Philippines, with knowledge-conscious Secretary of Agriculture William Dar, it would be as easy as ABC husbanding Agriculture to many thriving industries. Millions of Filipino farmers & fishers would be informed and rise from poverty. Asa ka pa! Hope for more!

Those dreams of empires may not be long in coming. Above, 2ndDistrict of Albay Representative Joey Salceda is the principal author of the bill “Satellite Internet Liberalization Act” approved Wednesday, 24 February 2021, by the House Committee on Information & Communication Technology (Filane Mikee Cervantes, “House Panel Approves Satellite Liberalization Bill,” PNA). “A House of Representatives’ panel on Wednesday approved a (proposed) measure allowing small-town Internet service providers, schools, and civic organizations to use the country’s satellite orbital to provide internet service to the countryside.”
(top image[1] from FilipinoHotTopics.com, lower image my photograph)

In such a case, no one can stop a small town from becoming Big Town!

Internet, Agriculture. You have questions on:
crop adaptability?
cropping season?
entrepreneurship?
fertilizers?
fishing laws?
loans?
machineries?
markets?
pesticides?
prevailing prices?
raw materials?
seeds?
technologies?
weather?
(The-ask-me-anything knowledge bank.)

Conversations, documentations, questions & answers could now be lightning fast. Lecturers or technicians need not be at the location to provide expert and on-time advice and/or instructions. Businesses will grow!

Mr Salceda says the Philippines’ “months of lockdown due to the pandemic have steered the nation into the digital economy, demanding that telecommunications companies improve their Internet services.”

Now, he says:

The new jobs are digital. We will need new jobs as we recover from the coronavirus disease. We will not get those jobs without faster internet, so this is a matter of national emergency,

Mr Salceda notes that, in a recent study by Tufts University in Massachusetts and Mastercard Inc, the Philippines is running behind regional competitors Indonesia and Vietnam.

The internet is the lifeblood of the new economy. If you do not have fast Internet, you're as good as finished in the global competition. If we (have) bigger ambitions for our country, we need faster Internet.

Mr Salceda is also the principal author of the House proposal “Faster Internet Services Act” that will encourage more competition in telecommunications – for faster and better services.

The Philippines is ahead in terms of user experience. This country has some of the world’s best designers. In fact, the index ranks us 10th on that score, but the country’s infrastructure and regulations have to catch up.

Personally, the Internet is in my blood now. I started travelling the information highway some 23 years ago. I began blogging in 2005 and, for many years now, I have stood as the world’s most creative writer nonfiction online, having blogged at least 5,000 long essays at least 1,000 words each.

Today, at 80, I am a work-from-home (WFH) Ilocano at ease with American English, earning frankly more than I have ever experienced since I graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1965. Thank God for WFH via the Internet!@517


[1]https://filipinohottopics.com/rep-salceda-inumungkahi-na-gamitin-ang-satellite-technology-para-mapalakas-ang-internet-connection-sa-mga-malalayong-lugar/

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