The 'Trickling' Revolution

When the Philippines was under the rule of the Spaniards, a group of progressive-minded Filipinos started the Propaganda Movement. They dream of a better life for Filipinos and planted the seed for the Philippine Revolution of 1898. Just like they did, we are now planting the seed today for a new revolution.

The concept of this Blog is to plant ideas for a Technopreneurial Revolution. It is not an 'armed' revolution. Rather, it is economic in nature. The participant doesn't revolve around soldiers but on 'technopreneurs'.

The road to national development is a dream we strive for but may never reach. We are little and so few and could hardly make a dent in the economic landscape. But like raindrops, so soft and calm, we will drop from the sky and tear loose a grain of soil. Eventually, we will find ourselves together into a brook, this brook will join a stream, and streams join to form a river. This river will be great and mighty and cut a path across the land.

As the river starts with a raindrop, the technopreneurial revolution will start with individuals willing to fall and tear loose a grain of soil. It starts with the growth of individuals, willing to try, ready to fail and determined to succeed. These are the trickles of the revolution. There are social, cultural, economic and historical reasons against the formation of technology-based enterprises in the Philippines in general. But driven individuals are much sturdier and more persistent.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

Could they stop engineers from attending management seminars and reading management books? Could they stop businessmen from seeking out good engineers for possible partnership arrangements? Could society prevent the flow of technology and wisdom from the Internet to those willing to learn and grow?

The formation of brooks and streams does not happen by chance. These raindrops, wherever they may fall, follow the same path. Millions and billions of raindrops continuously flow downwards where they meet and converge. Individual growth is random and could never be controlled. But we must lay down the directions and vision for the formation of streams and rivers that will flood the barren economic landscape. This vision and direction is what we call The Foundations of the Filipino Technopreneurial Revolution!