DICT Region 10 Launches Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Training for Valencia City

VALENCIA CITY, BUKIDNON. The Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) in Region 10 launches a 14-day digital marketing and eCommerce training for Valencia City residents and business owners at the UNO Business Hotel and Cafe.

Dubbed DigitalJobsPH, the training includes comprehensive courses on product branding, website development, content creation, eCommerce basics, search engine optimization, among others. It includes a 21-day hands-on digital marketing campaign where trainee-scholars will partner with local MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) in promoting the latter's businesses.

Formerly known as Rural Impact Sourcing Training (RIST), DigitalJobsPH aims to strengthen the ICT skills of Filipinos who live in rural areas and enable them to find gainful employment through online freelancing. The training also helps small business owners by providing them with a ready pool of tech savvy individuals who are capable of crafting effective marketing campaigns using the latest digital and eCommerce technologies.

The Valencia City-leg of DigtalJobsPH training will be led by Mr. Gabriel Billiones, CEO of Y-loop Digital Solutions. The training is also supported by the local government unit of Valencia City and the Department of Trade and Industry. (Report by Jay M. Pascual)

PRESS RELEASE: Valencia City Gears Up for Safe San Agustin Fiesta Celebration

The City Government of Valencia planned to tighten its security to ensure a safe and peaceful celebration of the feast day of Saint Augustine.

During a joint meeting on August 19, 2016, Capt. Alejandro L. Larosa, Executive Officer of CDRRMO, presented to the body the overview of Incident Command System (ICS) including the planning and imposing of security measures.

"The concept of ICS was adopted from the national level thus this was made to ensure the safety of people while celebrating the city's fiesta," Larosa said.

The Valencia City Police, headed by PSupt. Benbo P. Jumalon, pledged to deploy personnel in different areas in the city and establish incident command posts and police assistance centers to easily serve the public.

The Philippine Army as well as the Barangay Tanod of Poblacion and groups of radio communicators will also help assist securing the premises where most of the people go.

The PNP is also expected to enforce security checkpoints in strategic areas in the city.

The City Traffic Management Office on the other hand pledged to do their best to manage and control the traffic situation of the city especially on the day of the festivity.

C/Insp. Romeo L. Miranda, City Fire Marshall, also gave instructions on how to respond in an incident. He said that if an incident happened it is important to know its nature so that authorities can properly respond.

Fr. Diomedes Brigoli, Parish Priest, raised a concern regarding the security of the church goers especially when threat arises. He sighted that carnnaping is rampant in the premises of the church.

The PNP assured that they will secure the area and will conduct an intelligence monitoring. The authorities and the Public Information Office will also help inform the public to be vigilant.

Mayor Azucena P. Huervas set to further discuss the finalization of the plan during the peace and order meeting on August 26.

The city government through the support of the local chief executive assured to have a peaceful and harmonious fiesta celebration on August 27-28.

Thousands Marched in Valencia Bukidnon to Mark Labor Day

Thousands join Labor Day rally in Valencia Bukidnon. Photo by UMA-Pilipinas http://ow.ly/i/iYnTQ

Thousands of people marched through the streets of downtown Valencia Bukidnon on May 1 to mark the celebration of International Workers Day.

Waving red flags and colorful banners, the marchers demanded the enactment of P750 national minimum wage across the board.

Thousands join Labor Day rally in Valencia Bukidnon. Photo by UMA-Pilipinas http://ow.ly/i/iYnTQ

The protesters scored the incompetence and criminal neglect of the Aquino administration in addressing the effects of El Nino in the countryside.

They also demanded an immediate stop to labor contractualization and called for the release of calamity funds intended for devastated farm lands.

The protest march was led by Ogyon-UMA Bukidnon, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), BAYAN MUNA Party and Anak Pawis Party.

Screen grab from @Ogyon_Bukidnon Twitter page.

Youth groups led by Kabataan Party also supported the protesting farmers and workers.

According to the group Kontra Hulaw, the youth of Valencia Bukidnon joined the protest and barricades to show their solidarity with farmers and farm-workers.

Screen grab from Kontra Hulaw Facebook Page.

FULL STATEMENT OF THE CAGAYAN DE ORO PRESS CLUB on the 2016 Presidential Debate in Mindanao

Statement of Indignation
Cagayan de Oro Press Club, Inc.
14 February 2016

Respect the local press community

We, members of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club Inc., express our serious concerns over what appears to be an attempt to bar the provincial press from covering the first Presidential debate scheduled at the Capitol University on February 21, Sunday. We see this to be a clear case of discrimination towards the province-based media.

There have been many instances in the past when Manila-based media organizations have condescended on the provincial press. The Presidential debate in the city is no exemption.

Organizers (Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas, GMA7, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer) of the event have made it clear in a letter to the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) that they have allotted only five slots for local editors/publishers as debate audience and five
slots for newspaper reporters. In the same letter, it was also made clear that five newspaper reporters will only be allowed access to the event's media center--a separate venue where a video monitor will broadcast feeds of the debate.

It is our position that the Presidential debate is far too important, and should be beyond corporate media’s quest for higher ratings and wider readership.

Further, it is an affront to the local press community to limit the number of newspaper reporters to only five slots, and for the rest to be stifled into covering the event from a widescreen monitor. Why hold the debates here in the first place when the organizers can just as easily broadcast the debate from their studios in Manila?

The organizers further stated that they are allowing PPI to choose who to shortlist so as to ensure that "only legit local press" are allowed to cover the event. But who would know better than the press community of the host city?

Manila-based media entities should realize that they do not have the monopoly of serving public interest. The people's right to know must weigh far heavier than any media entity's “exclusive rights” to an event that is clearly of national interest. We are talking about the
next possible President of the Republic. We are all stakeholders.

We ask that Manila-based organizers lift this "exclusivity clause" in the coverage of the presidential debate to be held in our city. This early, there have been suggestions for a Cagayan de Oro media boycott of the debate but we still trust that, in the end, reason will prevail, and that the organizers would reconsider their position and right this wrong.

Stop this discriminatory and condescending attitude towards the local press community.
(sgd.)
MSGR. ELMER ABACAHIN
Club President

(sgd.)
HUGO 'KA JERRY' ORCULLO
Immediate Past President

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