by Jovie Cabais | Apr 11, 2010 | Tech Updates
In a matter of 29 days from today, the Philippines will finally implement an automated counting system for the national and local elections. May 10, 2010 will be a day when our country will finally show the world that we are done with the error-prone and easy to manipulate manual counting of ballots. Automated counting removes several opportunities to manipulate the election results at the precinct level but it also makes some worry that cheating can be automated, and that a scenario causing a failure of elections like continuous power outage would occur forcing us to go into a constitutional dilemma of having no replacement to officials who will end their terms this year. While it is easy to imagine scenarios of doom, these are really not that easy to do. In order for the automated counting to fail, any, or the combination of the following scenarios would have to be created: Total Power Failure throughout the country. Total power outage that lasts several days or weeks, causing total failure of all communication systems and draining all the battery power that comes with the counting machines. This power outage will have to start well before election day in order to ensure a failure of elections as well as a failure of everything else that requires electricity. Diesel and gasoline supply cut-off several days before the power outage starts to ensure all backup power systems will run out of fuel. If this total power failure happens, the elections probably won’t matter. All telecoms systems are jammed. Someone shells out a significant amount money to buy enough jamming machines to jam...
by Jovie Cabais | Apr 4, 2010 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net completed its selection of students who will undergo its Summer 2010 OJT Program on March 31, 2010. More than 30 applicants were screened and interviewed from Bohol Island State University, Holy Name University and University of Bohol. 16 promising students qualified for the program and will start their OJT program on April 5, 2010. The company’s summer OJT program has been a successful project allowing its trainees to be highly qualified job applicants to various IT companies upon graduation. The students who qualified, in alphabetical order, are: Alinab, Ivy Alombro, Jagad Marxcarlo Balaba, Noel Bonao, Analyn Calope, Mary Lee Corrales, Mark Angelou Damasin, Anna Rea Jumila, Mikejun Naguita, Hanna Harrette Naquila, Lalaine Malayao, Glenn Mark Omalsa, Louraine Pequino, Catherine Raut, Mary Jean Suarez, Sweetania Tapuroc, Mark Paul Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Apr 4, 2010 | Tech Updates
The Bohol ICT Council will hold a logo design contest open to everybody from students to professional designers to design the council’s official logo. Deadline for submission of contest entries will be on April 23, 2010. The contest will include a period of online voting until 12 noon on May 14, 2010 after which the panel of judges will make the selection for the winning design. The winner will receive Php2,500 and a certificate. The logo should only have a maximum of two colors and should be predominantly blue. There should be no gradient in the design and the logo should appear clear and readable even in monochrome. It should also represent the council as the advising body as well as the driving force in the development of the ICT industry in Bohol. It should be submitted in 3 sizes: 1″ x 1″, 5″ x 5″ and 12″ x 12″, at 150dpi in .jpg or .gif format. If the design is rectangular, the width should be 1″, 5″ and 12″. Contest entries must be submitted via email to info@bictc.org. Please include your full name, contact numbers and address in your email. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Apr 4, 2010 | Tech Updates
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) set up the website http:// www.cbcponline.net/visitaiglesia/ that features seven Metro Manila churches showing their facades and interiors. The site is also a multimedia prayer guide to the stations of the cross. The user can see the Manila Cathedral, San Agustin Church, Quiapo Church, San Lorenzo Ruiz Church, Tondo Church, Malate Church and Baclaran Church. In the website www.inquirer.net, CBCP spokesperson Msgr. Pedro Quitorio said that the online Visita Iglesia was intended for overseas Filipino workers living in non-Catholic countries and those who cannot physically visit churches. It was not intended for those capable of going to the churches and who just want to stay at home, he said. It is certainly not an excuse for anyone who simply wants to stay home but is well capable of doing his obligations for the Holy Week. Share...
