Pinoy cited for best research paper in Malaysia conference
A Filipino recently won one of the top awards in a
communication conference in Malaysia for his work on the impact of information
and communications technology (ICT) on the rural youth.
According to an article of the Philippine Information Agency, the study done by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) communication research Jaime Manalo IV won the Best Qualitative Conference Paper Award at the 2012 International Conference on Communication and Media (i-COME) in Penang, Malaysia.
Manalo’s winning study was entitled “Beyond Facebook: The undocumented experiences on ICTs of young rural Filipinos” and tackled notions of the ICT proficiency of the Filipino youth.
Jaime was an Australian Leadership Awards scholar from the Philippines who graduated from the University of Queensland, where he took his master’s degree, in 2011.
Centre for Communication and Social Change at the University of Queensland in Australia co-director and Associate Professor Elske van de Fliert, co-authored the paper with Manalo.
According to Manalo, the experiences of Filipino youth in rural areas are different compared to their urban counterparts, and that portrayals of Filipino youth in the media as tech-savvy need to have a second look.
“Issues of the rural youth in the Philippines can easily be glossed over if the attention is fixated on the experiences of their urban counterparts,” Manalo pointed out.
He also highlighted the need for the country’s solons to prioritize “needed ICT infrastructure” to guide the youth and eventually help the country in various areas, among them agriculture.
“Policymakers should pin their attention on providing the needed ICT infrastructure, and a conducive environment for the students to learn how to use ICTs,” Manalo said.
According to the PIA article, i-COME ’12 “aimed to address communication and media issues such as challenges in the socio-economic and political agenda, cultural integration, and social reengineering” and that around 120 people from 25 countries participated in the conference.
No stranger to research field
Manalo is no stranger to success in the field of research.
In April 2012, Manalo’s study, ‘Really, they don’t want to farm? Challenging existing orthodoxies on youth perceptions on rice farming in the Philippines,’ emerged as the best paper in the Technology Extension, Dissemination, and Education category of the annual Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) conference.
This study by Manalo once more urged people to take another look at existing notions, this time the assumption that young Filipinos no longer want to farm and instead look for other avenues related to the process.
“The belief that the younger generation is not interested in farming has resulted in almost zero efforts to engage the youth on rice farming and fears that Philippines might encounter a scarcity of future food producers” said Jaime.
“The fear that the youth will abandon farming someday might easily happen if we do not engage them. The paper calls for the public, private and non-governmental sectors to invest on initiatives that will indirectly involve the educated youth in rice farming,” he also said.
The study was also co-authored with Elske van de Fliert. - VVP, GMA News
According to an article of the Philippine Information Agency, the study done by Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) communication research Jaime Manalo IV won the Best Qualitative Conference Paper Award at the 2012 International Conference on Communication and Media (i-COME) in Penang, Malaysia.
Manalo’s winning study was entitled “Beyond Facebook: The undocumented experiences on ICTs of young rural Filipinos” and tackled notions of the ICT proficiency of the Filipino youth.
Jaime was an Australian Leadership Awards scholar from the Philippines who graduated from the University of Queensland, where he took his master’s degree, in 2011.
Centre for Communication and Social Change at the University of Queensland in Australia co-director and Associate Professor Elske van de Fliert, co-authored the paper with Manalo.
According to Manalo, the experiences of Filipino youth in rural areas are different compared to their urban counterparts, and that portrayals of Filipino youth in the media as tech-savvy need to have a second look.
“Issues of the rural youth in the Philippines can easily be glossed over if the attention is fixated on the experiences of their urban counterparts,” Manalo pointed out.
He also highlighted the need for the country’s solons to prioritize “needed ICT infrastructure” to guide the youth and eventually help the country in various areas, among them agriculture.
“Policymakers should pin their attention on providing the needed ICT infrastructure, and a conducive environment for the students to learn how to use ICTs,” Manalo said.
According to the PIA article, i-COME ’12 “aimed to address communication and media issues such as challenges in the socio-economic and political agenda, cultural integration, and social reengineering” and that around 120 people from 25 countries participated in the conference.
No stranger to research field
Manalo is no stranger to success in the field of research.
In April 2012, Manalo’s study, ‘Really, they don’t want to farm? Challenging existing orthodoxies on youth perceptions on rice farming in the Philippines,’ emerged as the best paper in the Technology Extension, Dissemination, and Education category of the annual Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) conference.
This study by Manalo once more urged people to take another look at existing notions, this time the assumption that young Filipinos no longer want to farm and instead look for other avenues related to the process.
“The belief that the younger generation is not interested in farming has resulted in almost zero efforts to engage the youth on rice farming and fears that Philippines might encounter a scarcity of future food producers” said Jaime.
“The fear that the youth will abandon farming someday might easily happen if we do not engage them. The paper calls for the public, private and non-governmental sectors to invest on initiatives that will indirectly involve the educated youth in rice farming,” he also said.
The study was also co-authored with Elske van de Fliert. - VVP, GMA News
No comments:
Post a Comment