Online Auction: A Crowded Competition But Fewer Audience
While the Philippines continues to have new start-ups in the online auction industry, the competition has become less and less, not because of the dominance of a certain site but due to fewer audiences- few participants, bidders and auctioneers.
Currently, the Philippines has about 10 sites competing for a few customers. The list is as follows:
1. Sulit.com
2. eBay Philippines
3. Bidshot
4. AyosDito
5. Pisobid
6. Buy & Sell
7. Auction.ph
8. OLX
9. Foreclosure Philippines
10. Top Gear
The last catering only to the property and gadgets respectively. Sulit has overtaken eBay Philippines in the race while Bidshot is catching up to make the triumvirate. The popularity of online auction business model is having competition in the form of group buying- commonly called daily deals in layman's term. The Philippines has 54 deal sites as of last count. More sites are still coming.
Hitting the trail at the PMP proclamation rally of Joseph Estrada at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila February 9, 2010.
My next assignment was Central Visayas - Bohol and Cebu for the NP sorties. Since my boss is a guest candidate of many parties, campaign staffers have to be divided to attend their motorcades and rallies. The Bohol and Cebu sorties are very exhausting considering the distance that we have to travel between the two provinces.
But it was thrilling to see the beautiful spots of Bohol where we had lunch at the Loboc river cruise. With no rest, we hit the road again to the upland towns leading us to Carmen town where the majestic Chocolate Hills are found. We climbed up the highest viewing spot on top of a hill, the view was really amazing.
The next day we have to go back to Cebu to prepare for the 2-day motorcade and the grand rally on the last day.
With a population nearing the 100 million mark, the Philippines would still be competitive in terms of manpower source - more than 1/3 of the U.S. and almost 1/7 of Europe.
Our success will depend on our ability to teach correctly our school age children in elementary and high school in English communication arts and other major languages and how our college students become proficient speakers in every language.
The contact center basically depends on communication in which language is a great barrier. Language proficiency and skills in technical support should be our main concern to sustain our advantage. Plus, we have to increase knowledge workers in graphic arts, medical and legal transcription, engineering and accounting as an added features for our supremacy in customer care.
Cooperation of LGUs should also be given importance. We should look at them as partners in developing regional outsourcing hubs in the 17 regions. Graduates of local universities should be given the chance of training in contact centers in the hubs. The hub administration should connect with DepEd's division offices to scout for potential trainees starting at the elementary level to high school. In this way, we will have steady pool of talents in the outsourcing industry. Therefore, sustaining our top position in the global scene.
Concept of Government in the Republic of Indonesia
First Level: Regencies & Cities
Second Level: District
Third Level: Kampung
Kampungor called by any other name is the legal community unit which has the authority to organize and manage the interests of the local community based on the local origin and customs acknowledged in the national administration system and is located within the Regency/City Area;
Kampung Consultative Body or called by any other name is a group of people forming one unit comprising various elements within the Kamung and elected and acknowledged by the local people to give suggestions and consideration to Kampung Govenment;
B. The Distribution of Powers
This section looks at the distribution of powers between the central
and local governments. First, I will describe the different levels of
governments the law recognises. I will, then, look at the distribution of
powers itself. Next, I will look at the impact of the lack of a
comprehensive mode of conflict resolution. Finally, I will look at other
shortcomings of the Regional Autonomy Law.
1. The different levels of government
The hierarchy of authorities or governments in Indonesia is very
complex. The good thing for those who are familiar with the present
hierarchy is that the new laws bring no fundamental change in the
hierarchy itself. The basic hierarchical structure remains the same, with
only one institution changing its name. For the benefit of those not
familiar with the Indonesian hierarchy, let me briefly introduce it.
At the top is the Central Government, which the law simply refers
to as the Government.32 Every other level of government is referred to as
a regional government (pemerintah daerah). There are many levels, but
the only important ones for our purposes are the Provinces (Propinsi or
Provinsi),33 headed by a governor; and one level below them,34 either the
regency (kabupaten),35 in rural areas, headed by the regent (bupati) or the
city (kota)36, in urban areas, headed by a mayor (walikota).37 In fact, as
we have seen, these are the only levels of regional government that are
constitutionalised by the recent amendment to the Constitution.38 Then, at
the very local level in rural areas are the villages (desa).39 For our
purposes, we need not describe the other levels of government between the
regency and the village.40
It should also be noted that the province, in addition to being an
autonomous region, is also an administrative territory for the Central
Government.41 This means that the governor is both the head of an
