Kaya Natin ~ A movement for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership

A country needs a government to be able to function properly. But, what if the ones who are handling the government are also the ones creating the problems? That is exactly the problem in our country.  It is not because we elected the wrong officials for the job but mainly because the bad people are combining their strengths to create a bigger effect. Truth be told strength do come in numbers so why can't the good people do the same thing?

To create a good government it requires two things:
1. A good administration 
2. good people


The government and its people go side by side. The government's foundation is its people while the people require the guidance and protection of its government to survive.  Thus, that being said a government is only as good as its people.

With that in mind Kaya Natin! was born. Formally launched in July 2008, this non-partisan movement  is only composed of good Filipinos from different sectors of society.  Their main goal was to espouse genuine change and ethical leadership in our country.  They are promoting changes in our government that would answer the needs of the Filipino people and enable them to deliver their services in an effective, ethical and empowering way and fight off the corruption.  By doing this, we can create future leaders who will set the standards of a continues and healthy process.

The Kaya Natin Champion Book

Kaya Natin Student leaders with Hon. Sonia Lorenzo, Cong. George Banal and Mr. Harvey Keh

"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge." - John Perry Barlow


So are you willing stand up and join the movement, help push for electoral reform, people empowerment and create a crusade against all illegal activities or just sit idly by?  


Honestly, I attended the invite just on Stacy's behalf because being a future lawyer someday, she was really interested in supporting good governance.  But upon attending, I  was moved by the mission and goal of the movement.  Hopefully, everyone will be inspired by the movements ideals on good governance and ethical leadership and make this a reality.  Learn more about the movement by visiting http://kayanatin.org.  

Top 5 Changes in FireFox 4

Firefox has always been behind most of its browser competitors.  It is about time that Firefox made big update with the release of Firefox.  Here are the things top 5 thing I loved about it:

1. App Tab

 

As a blogger,student, researcher and online seller, I usually have many bookmarks flooding my bookmarks toolbar section.  I always delete the name so that icons will only appear to save space.  It was similar to the concept of app tab except that it doesn't light blue when there are updates to the tab.   I'm glad that they finally thought about it.  Its so easy to add an app tab.  By just right click the regular tab and click pin as app tab, it is created and will be seen in the lower left of the browser screen.

Update: As I opened my Firefox today (May 10, 2011), the app tabs were missing.  Seems that it is still buggy.  Also noticed it happens whenever I open multiple Firefox windows.

2. It's faster  

  

Although it may not be faster than its competitors, it is faster by 2 to 7 times faster than the previous version.

3. Quick view of site information

No need for other lookup sites such as www.who.is.  Just by clicking on the icon of the site, you can view their site information.  

4.  Tab Group with search function

Tabs can now be groups while browsing just by simply drag and dropping.  To go to the tab group view simply press its icon located at the top right corner of the browser screen.  To search simply press the search icon and type the word you are searching for and the tab containing it will simply pop out.  If you close them accidentally, you can simply undo it. 

5. Privacy

     

You can now tell sites not to track you.

Remarks:

Firefox also implemented other changes which are similar to Chrome like the star history button, the incognito mode (privacy browsing), search by simply typing in the awesome bar and placing the tabs at the top most part (but next to the shorter menu bar).   Even though, they have improve Firefox sync, I still find it more convenient to use X-marks because it can integrate between different browsers.

How about you?  What do you think?