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Market Networking and Trading: A Case of Transforming Village Women’s Lives
Get PDFAn informal group of rural women residing in a Southern Philippine watershed community demonstrates that networking and market participation are viable means for self-transformation amidst limited opportunities. Based on network analysis and qualitative interviews, this article delineates the women’s marketing ties and experiences as vegetable biyahidors (traders) who hurdle constraints such as capital shortage, losses incurred from grading and transporting perishables, increasing market competition, and lack of organized response to problem solving. These challenges are addressed through marketing practices established individually, as well as collectively. The article underscores the necessity of institutional support through responsive market policies and programs to ensure the sustainability of the women’s entrepreneurial endeavors
First Community Cooperative’s Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Creating Shared Value
Get PDFCooperative history has provided many lessons that can be drawn upon by present generation who advocates for cooperative revolution. Some of the failures identified were: (1) owners/members have no feeling of ownership; (2) capital was externally provided; (3) cheating was rampant; (4) lack of education (farmers, who turned squatters, became managers). Different groups persevered to continue its effort of making cooperatives successful. Leaders learned to adopt policies that became the so-called “cooperative principles”. Other significant lessons learned include (1) start small (from simple to complex); (2) good intentions are not enough; (3) internal capital must be sourced out; (4) ownership; and, (5) need for unity, cooperation. Cooperatives made headway in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. The Americans learned of it in early 20th century. In 1938, a protestant missionary successfully introduced a credit union in Tuguegarao, Cagayan here in the Philippines. Since then, cooperatives in the country started to be formed by different groups
A Collation of Matigsalug Indigenous Games in Sitio Malamba, Marilog District, Davao City
Get PDFThe study of Matigsalug indigenous games is one of the ten-study projects of an on-going attempt to retrieve and document traditional games among the ethnic communities recognized as local tribes in Davao City. Triangulation methods were utilized using direct participatory, observational approach, indepth interview, fieldwork and a focus group discussion. The Matigsalug tribes known as people living along the “Salug” (Davao) River is one of the aboriginal immigrants of Davao City which identifies a distinct culture and precept in the island. They are divided into five (5) sub-groups; these are Matiglongilan, Pulangion, Talaandig, Matiglabo and Ata tribe. Prior to the foreign colonization, the tribes already had customary concepts and practices. Diversified rituals for abundant harvests, courtships, fortunes and traditional games are already practiced. But most of these practices especially in traditional games are undocumented and unexplored. Games as commonly known as socializing forces of Filipino family has a distinct meaning in the collation of Matigsalug indigenous games. Most of the documented games of the tribes are not for pastimes but an attempt of seeking and hunting food for survival. The Lolilid to bonabba and Poniting are means of support in-order to catch wild animals in the forest which uses the “pana and gossa” (bow and arrow) and “pangasso sobbat” (spear). The lombok povatas, poobitoy diyot weeg, ompuan povatas and oppuk diyot daum to weeg are sets of games held in the river to catch for fish, shrimps, crabs, frogs for food and for survival. These traditional practices are handed from generation to generation which serve as socio-historical markers of the tribes. The significance of this study is to document and strengthen the indigenous games particularly of the Matigsalug Tribe, institutionalize tribal Olympics and to unite the aboriginal immigrants of Davao City
Reflection on Ethical Cyberspace: An Ethics of Human Development and Capabilities Approach
Get PDFThe internet is a technology that permeates in the habitat of the modern man of today. It carries the power to change and mold the way man lives and acts. It can produce many other effects as well out of it that may not have been thought of before. To consider that man as a being in relation to others carries the distinction of values shared and dissipated to everyone. And the internet is a medium where communication and interaction of one being to another do happen. Such a development need not produce a worsening of man’s wellbeing and flourishing. In fact, the internet, if put to an ethical use and regulated by reflexive minds, can produce a powerful tool for progress and development, not only on economistic terms, but on human development as well. As we strive to preserve humanity that we would want it to normatively become, we actively pursue an ethical development of cyberspace and its derivatives thereof
