“Davao, Life is here” – A quotation that you will see in some tarps or boards as you enter the city of Davao. As you read between these lines, it denotes that everything you need is can be found in this city. It indicates that life is better living, that there are many opportunities in Davao. But is it really true? Is it right to associate the phrase “Life is here” in Davao? That’s a question that should be answer to justify the words above. A city can be categorized into three states. It could belong to a poor state, developing and best or enriched state. Cities belongs to the poor state are those places which has poor economy. It has low employment rate and the city industry is not alive as the pulse of their people is beating. Compare to the second state which is called the developing state, this city is making on its way to be align with the top competitive cities in the other parts in the world. When we talk about its industry, the people of that city are working on it and it’s alive and kicking. The third one which is the best or enriched state is the cities which are on its zenith of success. These are the top competitors in terms of economy and how they are advance in technology as well as its industry. With the case of Davao, this city belongs to the group of developing cities. It’s not bad though but it’s very alarming of what really happens in this city.
Based on what our facilitator mentioned in one of our meetings, Davao is facing now a great challenge where its opponents are the people itself who live this place. It’s not a shaggy dog story but it’s the reality and it really happens yearly. Davao has great universities here. They can produce best of the best graduates yearly which in fact a very beneficial one for the city. On the other hand, there’s a big, a gigantic “BUT” in behind of this thought. Even Davao has the best graduates in every year, the city itself can’t utilize if for the improvement. Why? It’s because of the common mindset of the fresh graduates nowadays. They were fascinated only with the high-paying jobs and these jobs are can be found to other cities like Cebu and Manila. If you’re an observer type of a person, you will notice that there are only few companies here in Davao especially with the IT companies. As the matter of fact, IT is one of the prominent courses that college students took up. But how it happens that there are only few IT companies here in Davao? Where are these hundreds of IT graduates go? Since most of these graduates have the Default mindset which only persuaded to attain their goal to land only a high-paying job, you can find them still in school if they extended their year there, or you can find them in the other country or in the other cities within the Philippines. Having these best graduates which is a big help to city industry is a very pleasant to hear and it makes the universities proud that they were able to produce these best graduates however it’s disappointing to know that these graduates doesn’t contribute any for the improvement of the city. Instead Davao could benefit the brilliant, excellent or great minds that it have, it doesn’t now matter since the one who will benefit these are the other country and the other cities. Davao become the suppliers of intelligent employee which only benefits the other cities. Why these graduates choose to migrate in other places? Since they have the different kind of mindset, they will go to the other places where there already many companies and therefore, they will be more opportunities there compare in this city. Even the average graduates are also following the steps of the others. They striving hard not for their city but for the other country and other cities were they think they could earn their desired salary. This is very alarming as what I said a while ago. If it continues, the industry of Davao city will be the same with the condition of the poor cities in the other part of the country as well as in the other part of the world. Instead of making this city to be one of the most competitive cities in the country or even in the world, it will end up into a horrible thing which has a massive effect not only into the city but also the people who lives there. What’s the bottom line in discussing this one? As you can see, each of the people who live in that city matters. People are the one who have the power to enhance or improve a city. A city will never be a city without a people who are living with it.
Change. That’s what the Davao needs to solve this disturbing scenario. It must be stop not only for the sake of the existence of the city but also with the people living with it. So, if you ask me if what I can do to make a change and propel the economy of Davao, I will start with my own self. How? It may not change automatically the economic condition of this city but it’s a good start. As what they said, “Love yourself first, before you love others”. This thought has the same thought of what I want to express. Before the second meeting happened, I’m one of the people whose thinking are fixed and just want to land a high-paying job as they get their diplomas. Before I change and help to propel the whole city of Davao, I want to start it first with myself. Primarily, I want to change the old mindset that I have. I want to embrace the alternative mindset which I discovered in the second meeting in our technopreneurship. If I just still have the same outlook and the same goals why I study hard, it will just end up with the same scenario with the graduates who didn’t have any contribution to the improvement of Davao’s economy. And when I understand truly and embrace the alternative mindset as a whole, I will do the second step. This can be done as soon as I will receive my diploma and will face the real world. I know it will be not easy but I will do my best to follow my goals and that is to be an employer someday, to be a boss in my own company someday. To do this thing, I will find a job which also related in my course so I could use what I learned from the years I’ve spend in college. Therefore, I will first become an employee. As what my mother said to me, being successful is not easy. If you’re going to the top floor in the building, you must start with the first floor. This idea is the same before you achieve the success. It must be a step-by-step process. So, I will be an employee and will do my best to be an effective employee. As the time goes by and I have enough money, then I will do the next thing which for me, it’s a good step to help to improve the economic state of Davao. Let’s say that I will think this time as a technopreneur. Since I got a job and have enough money, that’s the time that I will do my way, I will create a company that I can call it as my own and will be entitled as a boss of my own company. Now, how this idea can help to boost the Davao’s economy? As what I had mentioned above, the main problem why there are many best graduates throw their selves into other cities and countries is for the reason that there are only few opportunities that will be sought here in the city of Davao. To address this issue, if there are many people like me that has the same idea and want to put a company here in Davao, then this best graduates as well as the average graduates will seek opportunities not from other places but here in Davao. Why must they leave their family and go away just to have a job if they have the option not to? If there are many opportunities sparkling in their eyes and waiting for them here in Davao? Well, aside from returning what’s for the Davao which making these intelligent people work for Davao, there’s a great possibility that many people who are not belong in this city may seek opportunities here in Davao. This idea is a great opportunity not only for the people who wants to have job which will increase the employment rate in the city of Davao but also for the city which is a good thing to grab on since it will really have a massive effect in the economy of Davao which is a positive one. If I will be fortunate to be a successful in the business that I built, I want to have a program which I believe that it’s a helpful one also with the economy of Davao. This idea really doesn’t originate from me and I just heard it from the sharing of ideas which was happened in our third meeting in Technopreneurship. So the idea is like this, I will have a program that will support people who are very interested to their studies. In short, I will have a scholarship program. These people will continue their schooling as they work on my company. The set-up will be a give and take relationship but these students under with this program will receive more benefit than me. Why? As they will work for me, they will also have their salary as well as what I said earlier, they can also go to school which their expenses will be covered by my company. They will also have to attend seminars which will be implemented as they will be under in the scholarship program. This seminar is about the idea on how they enrich their selves and how they will stand with their own feet as they will finish their school and will have their own money. This seminar is an encouragement to these people to put up their own business and follow the steps of the great technopreneurs. It’s like what happened in the second meeting in Technopreneurship which our facilitator presented an alternative mindset and I will include it in the seminar. I believe that having a discussion about this kind of mindset is a big help to change their outlook in life. As these people will be successful in their own way, it will guaranteed the city of Davao that after ten years or let’s say fifteen years, the economy of this city will be on its peak due to the numbers of companies here in Davao which will give the way to produce a lot of opportunities. The idea also of having a scholarship program doesn’t only targets the employment here in Davao but also the education of the people in this city. I consider that education is one of the primary key to produce great employers and eventually will help to boost the economic state of Davao. Another thing that I am concerned with is how the technology runs with the industry of Davao. Since I’m a technopreneur in this case, I’m attached to the inventions and products of technologies. Having the advance technologies in a city is really a big help. It makes life easier especially in the business operations. There are a lot of countries like Korea, Japan and other countries which really give an attention in the importance of technology. In my observation, they used these as their tool to propel their country. They embrace the touch of technology which makes their country technologically advance from other and this advantage makes them ahead and more competitive from the other state. In relation to this, since I consider myself as a technopreneur, I will support programs which focus in innovations through the use of modern technology we have right now. There are many brilliant dabawenyos who possess great ideas regarding with the innovations of things which has sense and really helps the community. But, these people didn’t receive any chance by the government and just let it sell to other countries. Eventually, other countries will benefits of what are countrymen made. Instead our country will use these inventions and use it for the prosperity, the government just throw this opportunity and it happened many times. So back with the idea I mentioned, I will support the programs or people who have brilliants minds that create great innovations through financial support. Since I have my company which I positively believe that it’s one of the successful company in town, I will make an arrangements with those group of people whose innovations are interesting and has a big help with the economy of Davao. Since it’s a business and money matters, investment is a proper word to use to support their ideas. As what I said, money matters. It’s really important to have funds to make and invention or an innovation to be possible. If also I will find interesting and a helpful inventions which will makes the city more techie than I will buy it for good. From this idea, there will be more brilliant people out there will be encourage to show what they got and I assume that this will help not only the economy of Davao but also the field of Technopreneurship.
Davao city is a wonderful place. It supposed to be one of the best cities that Philippines could ever had. It must be align with Manila and Cebu or better with what these cities have. Davao has best people who have brilliant minds if it happens they were give a chance to show what they got and to give a chance to help the city. Davao should be one of the cities where you can find great opportunities not only for the people who live with it but for the other people who wants to be with it. My point is citing these words are that Davao could be what I said through the help of the people of it. It’s just a matter of having the guts to take a risk to accept and embrace the changes and just deal with it instead of sticking with the old one. As what I said, a city will not be city without the people behind it. Dabawenyos has the power to change the economic situation of their city and they are obliged to do it for the existence of this city. People in Davao is the answer with this situation and they must unite for the sake of the city as well as for their lives. I believe that as the people of Davao accept the changes and embrace the modernity which is the today’s technology, Davao’s economy will be on its zenith and even could be the great city not only in the country but in the whole world.
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