Rizal’s Web Of Ignorance & Hilario’s WebS Of Knowledge

 

Question: Does the World have a Library of Knowledge? Good question! If it makes you feel better, both the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) are clueless too! Not to mention us, Filipinos.

To put it differently: What the ESA, World Bank (even NASA) each has is a Web of Knowledge (WoK) good for scientists but useless for the people!

For People Progress, we need a different language of knowledge. Above, Leo Deocadiz shares on Facebook on the ignorance of Filipinos: Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal said in the 19^th century, “Kailan man, hindi ako natakot sa mga mananakop, mas natatakot ako sa kamangmangan ng aking mga kababayan.” (My translation: “Never, I did not fear the colonizers, fearing more the deep ignorance of my countrymen.”)
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Yesterday, we Filipinos were caught in a web of deep political ignorance: That continues to this day, despite digital media. That is because of the absence of political digital WebS of Knowledge and therefore lack of political education – we Filipinos have learned little our political lessons.

We have not learned much from Science either. Neither have the Americans and Europeans who have space agencies and have explored the universe up there. They know Science for the Scientists, not Science for the People.

We do not have anywhere in the world what I call either a Real Knowledge Bank or True WebS of Knowledge. Science already knows much about the workings of the world, but the pieces of knowledge are scattered and not gathered in webs that we can trace at any time and learn from.

Above, I am inspired today by the single web figure (which I repeated, lower image) that the ESA has come up with in its 2011 report titled “Weaving a Knowledge Web[1]” (ASK Editorial Staff, 02 August 2011, Appel.nasa.gov). The ESA Web is comprised of flags of countries of the world connected as in a spider’s web.

Unfortunately, a single web cannot represent the Total Knowledge of the World – that can be represented only by countless webs of knowledge, hence I constructed this figure I call WebS Of Knowledge (WoKS).
(above, lower image)

I’m right now thinking of the biggest educational institution in Philippine agriculture, UP Los Baños – it saddens me that it is 113 years old, but it has not built even a semblance of WebS of Knowledge in Agriculture.

WOKs in Agriculture would have such as these:

WebS of Knowledge: Comparing loans from merchant & from coop;
WebS of Knowledge: Comparing outputs of disc plow with those of rotavator;
WebS of Knowledge: Comparing Longping hybrid rice with SL-8 Agritech;
WebS of Knowledge: Comparing inorganic with organic fertilizer;
WebS of Knowledge: Comparing transplanting with direct seeding of rice;
WebS of Knowledge: Comparing manual transplanting with use of transplanter;
and so on and so forth.

Every detail explained if you frame the question.

My vision is a million such WebS of Knowledge built into a single Knowledge Bank of Agriculture. Digital is the key.

With all those WOKs, all farmers should be rich!@517

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[1]https://appel.nasa.gov/2011/08/02/weaving-a-knowledge-web/