Echoes From
BY JOHNNY DAYANG
The community press take another bow
It is to the credit of the government media led by Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office that new efforts at repositioning Philippine tourism in the Aquino government are being done with enthusiasm and confidence.
In an impromptu speech by Secretary Coloma’s representative Undersecretary Jose Fabia, director general of the Philippine Information Agency at the Visayas Media Forum in Boracay sponsored by the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. defined the roadmap by which the country’s well-known and innumerable gifts of Mother Nature could be “redeveloped.”
Fabia, a former mayor of Binmaley, Pangasinan, showed his easy if not masterly grasp of a media-directed drive for tourism development by way of making the general public active and creative participants in “selling” these fabled isles to the global community.
“We should be able to harness the power and reach of the new media including cyber journalism, ICT (information communications technology), social networking and, digital communications, in pushing new vistas and new horizons in local tourism and national progress,” Fabia said.
He commended the captains of Philippine tourism, singling out the Boracay Foundation, Inc. and the happy blend of private and government initiatives all over the islands that have made an indelible niche in the nation’s progress. He downplayed the negative effects of the lamented hostage-taking tragedy at the Quirino Grandstand.
“It was an isolated and unfortunate incident all right-thinking Filipinos would consign in their list of unwanted memories,” he said.
His words of building new confidence in our people’s revived faith in the new government and in the whole range of creating new visions for Philippine progress were inspiring.
We have it on good authority that the new PIA czar, who was among the leaders of the broad alliance that ardently worked for President Aquino’s election, is a natural advocate of people participation in building communities and the nation.
My friend, Manila Bay Breakfast Club president Jun Velasco, who introduced him as a “multi-awarded public servant in local governance, public health and international law” describes Fabia’s media philosophy as “a grassroots-based feedback mechanism network that highlights government programs’ impact on the people’s lives.”
In the convention held at the Boracay Regency, we drew inspiration from practically all the participants’ expression of unequivocal support to the Aquino government’s resolve to deliver the most meaningful brand of service to the people.
In our view, the government under Pnoy couldn’t have found a more credible information team.
BY JOHNNY DAYANG
The community press take another bow
It is to the credit of the government media led by Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office that new efforts at repositioning Philippine tourism in the Aquino government are being done with enthusiasm and confidence.
In an impromptu speech by Secretary Coloma’s representative Undersecretary Jose Fabia, director general of the Philippine Information Agency at the Visayas Media Forum in Boracay sponsored by the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. defined the roadmap by which the country’s well-known and innumerable gifts of Mother Nature could be “redeveloped.”
Fabia, a former mayor of Binmaley, Pangasinan, showed his easy if not masterly grasp of a media-directed drive for tourism development by way of making the general public active and creative participants in “selling” these fabled isles to the global community.
“We should be able to harness the power and reach of the new media including cyber journalism, ICT (information communications technology), social networking and, digital communications, in pushing new vistas and new horizons in local tourism and national progress,” Fabia said.
He commended the captains of Philippine tourism, singling out the Boracay Foundation, Inc. and the happy blend of private and government initiatives all over the islands that have made an indelible niche in the nation’s progress. He downplayed the negative effects of the lamented hostage-taking tragedy at the Quirino Grandstand.
“It was an isolated and unfortunate incident all right-thinking Filipinos would consign in their list of unwanted memories,” he said.
His words of building new confidence in our people’s revived faith in the new government and in the whole range of creating new visions for Philippine progress were inspiring.
We have it on good authority that the new PIA czar, who was among the leaders of the broad alliance that ardently worked for President Aquino’s election, is a natural advocate of people participation in building communities and the nation.
My friend, Manila Bay Breakfast Club president Jun Velasco, who introduced him as a “multi-awarded public servant in local governance, public health and international law” describes Fabia’s media philosophy as “a grassroots-based feedback mechanism network that highlights government programs’ impact on the people’s lives.”
In the convention held at the Boracay Regency, we drew inspiration from practically all the participants’ expression of unequivocal support to the Aquino government’s resolve to deliver the most meaningful brand of service to the people.
In our view, the government under Pnoy couldn’t have found a more credible information team.
could someone from the aklan media update aklanons on the dredging of the aklan river for flood control purposes. paging mr. juan dayang!
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