(“Knowledge Sharing” image from bancadecunostinte.ro)
Here’s encouraging the Philippine
Association of Career Scientists (PACS), via its former president Norvie Manigbas, who knows personally
what I can singlehandedly do in the name of R&D in the matter of
publications – he was a Board Member of the Crop
Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP), publisher of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science
(PJCS) when I, as the all-digital PJCS Editor
In Chief, singlehandedly brought up-to-date the journal from
being late 3 years (2000-2002) to up-to-date in the next 3 years (2003-2005), with
improved quality to be included in the international prestige list called “ISI”
in 2007. Tada!
I hope the PACS people can convince the attendees of the CLSU Summit on
Agriculture to package a proposal to create a digital knowledge bank on both
(1) Chemical Agriculture (CA) and (2) Regenerative Agriculture (RA) for
almost-instant reference anywhere in the world. I’ll call it here “Agriculture
Knowledge Bank” (ABK) that anyone with a computer can access anywhere in the
world anytime. I am willing to help the PACS package the proposal to be
presented at the Summit.
The ABK is patterned after the original “Open Academy for Philippine
Agriculture” (OpAPA) originated and submitted by then-ICRISAT Director-General
William Dar (yes, our former Secretary of Agriculture). When Mr Dar submitted
OpAPA to Philippine Agriculture via the Philippine
Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), I as a PhilRice consultant, wrote a
digital book that I titled “The Geography
Of Knowledge” (TGoK) that explained what can be done and how it could be
done.
I still have a copy of my book TGoK – digital knowledge remains to be a
problem of immediate grasp even if your computer is connected to the Internet.
So! This is an advanced challenge to the organizers of the CLSU Summit
on Agriculture.
The digital ABK should be
accessible even to those who do not know any technical term in the science of
agriculture – that is the secret of learning for beginning or non-farmers with my
ABK!
For instance, you want to know about modern plowing, but you know only
the word “araro” – so you type “ABK araro” (with or without the double quotes)
onscreen and then press Enter.
ABK will then respond with something like this:
Plow araro (Tagalog)
Then ABK will show you links to the page(s) about plows. Click any or
all links and see what you can learn.
Oh, and by the way, if all you know is Tagalog terms, ABK will always
translate each term into English, so that you can further explore tha knowledge
bank.
The beauty of it all is that you don’t have to know agriculture to
learn from ABK. Because ABK speaks non-technically as well – and then leads you
to more knowledge.@517
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