Batayan ng Kinabukasan: Guidelines for Election 2010

I. Sampung dapat tandaan ng isang botante sa araw ng eleksyon
1.) Huwag kalimutan ang voter's ID
2.) Ang bawat isa ay mayroon lamang karapatang bumoto ng isang beses.
3.) Basahin at intindihin ng maigi ang mga mga direksyon sa pagboto at punan ng tamang bilang ang bawat position.
4.) Itiman ng maayos ang bilog sa tabi ng kandidatong bobotohin.
5.) Iwasanag malukot at marumihan ang balota.
6.) Pumila nang maayos upang maging maayos ang sistema ng eleksyon at maiwasan ang kaguluhan.
7.) Ang oras ng pagboto ay magsisimula ng 7 ng umaga at magtatapos ng 6 ng gabi.
8.) Matapos bumoto, hintayin ang sasabihin ng bantay upang masiguradong naipasok na ang iyong balota sa makina.
9.) Dalawang beses lamang tatawagin ang pangalan ng bawat botante. Makinig ng mabuti sa mga pangalang tinatawag.
10.) Magdala ng kodigo o tsek list upang mapadali ang iyong pagboto.

II. Sampung dapat bantayan ng mga botante at watcher sa araw ng eleksyon
1.) Mag-ingat sa mga kahina-hinalang tao.
2.) Ingatan ang mga kagamitang dala.
3.) Siguraduhing mananatiling pribado ang iyong mga bato.
4.) Siguraduhing tunay ang I.D. ng mga botante.
5.) Bantayan kung ma y mga cellphone jammers sa paligid.
6.) Siguraduhing walang mga katauhan na may dalang matulis na bagay o baril.
7.) Pagmasdan kung mayroong mga transaksyon ng pagbili ng boto na nagaganap sa paligid.
8.) Walang botanteng lasing o nasa ilalim ng ipinagbabawal na gamot ang pahihintulutang lumapit sa mga presinto.
9.) Siguraduhing walang mga watcher na kabilang sa grupo ng mga kandidato.
10.) Bantayan ang mga balota na maisapasok ito ng tama sa makina.

III. Suggestions on how to report problems during the whole election process

Before the elections, certain illegal actions such as vote selling are evident. As a method of reporting these problems, one must contact the PNP hotline, barangay or COMELEC offices and indicate the details of the probelms via their website or text.

Since almost everyone in the country has cellphones, it would be a good way to report problems during the elections through SMS. It would be beneficial if voters could send text messages to a hotline using specific keywords such as REPORT and ALERT for emergency cases.

After the elections, an online records management system for reports shall be put up. Users/voters have the option to text message/SMS any of their concerns as well. Voters can also approach or contact any PNP stations, COMELEC offices and other concerned hotlines.





IV. Characteristic of a candidate
A. Janine Casas
1.) Charisma - a president must be likeable and respectable
2.) Honesty and integrity
3.) Must be experienced,have good leadership skills and have inner calmness

B. Kenneth Chan
1.) Mayroong positibong pananaw sa buhay
2.) Mayroong mataas na tinamong edukasyon
3.) Masipag!

C. Quino Legaspi
1.)Nasyonalista!
2.) Edukado
3.) Maagap

D. Lawrence Tan
1.) May sariling paninindigan
2.) Maprinsipyo
3.) Tunay ang malasakit sa kapwa, mayaman man o mahirap

E. Frances Urbano
1.) Iniisip at tinitingnan ang magiging resulta ng bawat desisyon
2.) Mahal ang bayan at kayang magsakripisyo para sa lahat
3.) Kayang tumugon sa pangangailangan ng mga tao bente kwatro oras

Phases

This week was perhaps the beginning of the end of our INTRICT course. As we attended our last formal class, each student was tense because during the last class, students were given the chance to redeem their low midterm grades in the Macro report. Even though I don't believe I did particularly well in the make-up test, I think the last "hurrah" of the course pretty much summed up everything it was meant to be, a preliminary course to build a solid foundation of what we will be in the future. Call it a phase, the starting and actually the most important phase, the INTRICT course, gave us an overview of everything we will face in the future. Perhaps INTRICT is, and will be, the course everyone will remember in the years to come, perhaps, it is the course when it all started...

Unforgotten Art

And then it came, the week everyone has talked about since last week, The INTRICT Break Week. The main and the only event prepared for the INTRICT break was the dance number presentation of each group. As each group presented the dance number, it certainly brought us closer as a class simply because we learned something about each of our classmates that we hadn't previously known. Who would have thought a guy with a nickname from a game could dance that well? After each group had presented, one thing was sure, everybody got a satisfaction because of the hard work each had put in for practicing. It was a short moment that could very well last forever for each of us.
We learned:

• Many could dance well in the class.
• Creativity is abundant at S13.
• R and B music is dance music.

INTRICT

This week at INTRICT, databases and networking took center stage as our class were taught about the nature and characteristics of each one. As our professor discussed its uses and overview, we, as a class realized that the importance of networks and databases is constantly increasing in the industry. Moreover, memory sizes were also discussed at one session, off-topic as it may be, it was something that was able to add to our knowledge of technology, mainly data storage.
Thing achieved at INTRICT:

• Created an innovative dance number for Chris Brown's hit song; Forever.
• Learned about memory sizes. 4-16-32.....
• Learned about the Y2k incident and how it affected the computer world.
• Learned about the history of data storage.
  

Dead Ends

INTRICT this week taught us something new, something we don't come across everyday. For me, I think it taught us the value of hardwork, which I think is essential for IT professionals because as we climb the corporate ladder, we must face challenges of deadlines as well as tough working schedules. Hardwork, I think, is a thing often misunderstood by many, we always come across a person that says "I work hard", but the question is, what qualifies as hard work?. For me, our performance is measured simply by our conscience, therefore we actually cannot tell if we worked hard or not. Hard work is produced when the distinctive balance between planning and realization is achieved, it is a balance that seems so simple yet overlooked by many. Whenever a person creates an impression of himself that he is a hard worker, I realize that he is just making a dead end in his life, simply because by simply judging his own performance only on the realization part, he creates an imaginary boundary on what the future can, and will still hold for him.
INTRICT this week made us realize:

• The value of hardwork: The satisfaction that you get for a job done creates peacefulness that we achieved something for ourselves.
• Standing still: Failures define who we are, moreover how we face them dictates what will happen to us in the future.
  

Clearer Views

As we grow older, habits, appearance, actions as well as our personality changes. From the time we were born until now, we undergo a transformation unlike any other living thing simply because we undergo not only physical changes, but mentally and psychologically as well. But what exactly fuels the change? Is it the experiences we have? The lessons we learn? The variety of emotions that we feel? For me, I believe it is a combination of all things that makes wonders in our lives. From meeting a new friend to getting enrolled in a good school, I believe the most important thing that starts the change is the change in perspective we have. I think the different perspectives we develop as we grow up affects our actions and the way we think. But the thing that makes us all most unique, is that we are always able to generate a positive outlook in life. Never can we say that the way we view life in particular can't change anymore, because we are bound by infinite possibilities, making us to able to comprehend the things that already happened, the things happening right now, and more importantly the endless situations and possibilities we can still face in the future.

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Elections was the main topic this week at our INTRICT class. That's because our discussions centered thoroughly about the different kinds of informations systems that could improve or enhance the current state of the election process. Year in, year out, countless news stories center about votes being manipulated and the elections being a symbol of the severe case of corruption our country's experiencing right now. With that in mind, society has turned for help, and in this case, technology and more importantly, informations systems. With reducing vote manipulation, increasing accuracy, as well as speeding up the process in mind, two IS have been specifically created, the Optical Mark Recognition and the Direct-Recording Electronic. Details about the two machines can be found below:

Optical Mark Reader

• Process is somewhat the same as college entrance tests. (Shading circles and machines checking it.)
• Advantages: Fast
• Disadvantages: Less accurate and longer process resulting in more chance for vote manipulation.

Direct-Recording Electronic

• Uses touch screen in an individual process. (One person at a time per machine.)
• Advantages: More accurate because of direct-recording nature and harder-to-manipulate results.
  
• Disadvantages: Slower because of the individual process.

Trailblazers

As we study about the numerous technological advancements every week at our INTRICT course, I can't help but to think about the reasons why each technological step was made? Maybe just out of pure curiosity, scientific reasons or maybe the efficiency it can possibly bring to mankind, the thing I realized is that each person does things based on his own reasons. Realizing this, my mind came across the topic of "Greatness", what specifically is greatness? Stereotypically, it can be viewed as the achievements we have in life, like awards or money, but look closer at the subject, and maybe you can see the entire truth. Greatness, I think, is how a person blazes his own trail in life. It isn't the money, awards or valuables we have, it is the specific trail the we leave when we have long gone away from this world. Greatness is achieved when we create a burning trail that encompasses time, creating a better world and future, for everyone, in the past, present and the future.

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This week at INTRICT, the discussion centered around informations systems development. Because of the wide range of topics regarding it that we took up last week, I finally understood why informations systems development is sometimes viewed as a simple process even though in reality it's as complex as anything can be. Given index cards containing information regarded as "Things that cannot be forgotten", all the discussions we had were merely a cloak for the things we learned because as we listened to the lectures, I felt that we needed to use our critical thinking so that we could get the gist of it. Unfortunately, the week was cut short because our professor was sick, we hope he gets well soon. All in all, as always, it was a productive week learning all about the world of informations systems.


The Parts of Informations System Development

• Stages of Development
• Organizational Knowledge
• Information Problems
• Information System Elements