UNIDA primer

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By Ike Señeres

What is the UNIDA? UNIDA is short for United National Integrated Development Alliance. It is an alliance of individuals and organizations that are working towards the socio- economic development of the Philippines as a whole.

What is the ideology of the UNIDA? Competitiveness. We want to build a nation that is globally competitive, and is regionally a dominant economic power in South East Asia .

What is the strategy of the UNIDA? Convergence. We want to converge the delivery of public services to the local community levels, within the framework of Integrated Area Development (IAD).

What is the methodology of the UNIDA? Cooperation. We want the people at the local levels to cooperate so that they could lower the rates of poverty, illiteracy and mortality in their own communities, through the cooperatives.

What is the Human Development Index (HDI)? HDI is the framework adopted by the United Nations to measure the performance of member nations in lowering the rates of poverty, illiteracy and mortality, among other data.

What is the UNIDA solution to the high poverty rate? Livelihood. We want each member of our society to be productive, so that he or she could graduate from the poverty line. We want each family to be able to afford or access the imaginary basket of goods, an economic tool that is used to measure the poverty rate at the local and the national levels.

What is the UNIDA solution to high illiteracy rate? Education. We want each member of our society to not only graduate from primary education, but also from secondary education, as a preparation for moving up towards vocational and collegiate education.

What is the UNIDA solution to the high mortality rate? Health. We want each member of our society to have access not only to primary health care, but also to secondary and tertiary health care, using new technologies such as telemedicine and medical informatics.

How can the UNIDA support livelihood? Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support livelihood. We want each enterprise to be able to sell their products and services locally and globally by using the Internet, backed up by strong production and product development at the backend.

How can the UNIDA support education? Electronic Learning (eLearning) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support education. We want each student to be able to access all kinds of local and global educational content by using the Internet, backed up by good preparation and courseware development at the backend.

How can the UNIDA support health? Electronic Health (eHealth) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support health. We want each patient to be able to access all kinds of local and global medical assistance by using the Internet, backed up by volunteer and professional health providers at the backend.

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