Democratizing Innovation Through the Web

Upon the invitation of UP Professor, Education Advocate, and TEDFellow Rom Feria, I gave a talk yesterday in Y4IT – the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology.

It was an extremely awesome event, with thousands of Filipino youth all coming together to learn more about the latest trends and opportunities in this space – just look at this jam-packed program and you’ll have and idea on the diversity of ideas presented.

I really believe that after these four eventful days, they’ve sparked the imagination of a lot of youth, hopefully spurring a new generation of IT practitioners and technopreneurs in the Philippines.

Originally, I wanted to talk about the WhyNot?Forum – our advocacy on inspiring Filipino ingenuity. But after finding out more details on the event and the audience, I thought that it was a very opportune time to talk about my passion on innovation and how it has been democratized by information technology. That, after all, is really the underlying principle beneath WN?F.

And as I was thinking through my topic, I realized that I needed to talk about how innovation was indeed being democratized, most especially to the youth. I needed a real, live case.

And so I called up Matthew Cua, who is really this crazy innovator/inoventor/web junkie and asked his permission to talk about him, to which he graciously said yes.

As a background, I first met Matthew in a talk in Ateneo, and further got to know him through WN?F and an Innovation Seminar I ran for Ateneo Students in Kolektib. I’ve been in touch with him ever since – in fact collaborating on WN?F, Hapinoy, and Inovent – and I must say that he for me represents the next generation of innovative entrepreneurs in the Philippines – the kind that I only talk and teach about.

So without further ado, I’d like to share this presentation * (note : i’ve edited it from my Y4IT talk – enhancing it with text as well as removing the WhyNot?Forum portion that i’ve previously posted)

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