APCSS Professor Speaks at NDCP
POSTED BY: RULino
DATE POSTED: 2008-11-09
“Technology and strategic outlook should link up for innovation,” said Dr Virginia Bacay Watson, Professor at the Hawaii-based Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS).
Dr Watson was the main speaker during the roundtable discussion on innovation and national security held on 21 October 2008 at the NDCP Honor Hall.
“Technology increasingly dominates the economy and society with the proliferation of computers, robotics and nanotechnology,” Dr Watson said.
Dr Watson talked about the current knowledge revolution as characterized by the development of new technologies, rapid speed of innovation and “up-skilling” of the labor force. As she discussed recent technological trends and their implications to national security, she cautioned about the emergence of cyberwar, nanopollution, and asymmetric warfare.
Dr Amelia Angcog, the NDCP’s Science and Technology Module Director, was the Reactor.
She said, “Continuous discussions with stakeholders are now in progress to refine and identify programs to carry out ‘Filipinnovation’”.
“Our task is to contribute to the dialogues and discussions on ‘Filipinnovation’, to give fresh insights and to benefit from the information and knowledge,” said Dr Angcog.
In his Closing Remarks, Undersecretary for Defense Affairs Antonio C Santos Jr said, “Not everything in the international system is national security and not everything in the internal security is national security. But technology cuts across all these and so we want innovation in our approach to national security.”
Undersecretary Santos said, “Innovation should start with ideas, not only with materiel equipment.”
A total of 70 participants attended the said event. Participants included APCSS alumni and representatives from various government agencies such as the Department of National Defense (DND), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Members of the NDCP Management Committee and Master in National Security Administration (MNSA) Regular Class 44 also present during the said discussion.
Established on 12 August 1963, the NDCP is the government’s key education institution for training and research on defense and security. Through the Defense Management Institute (DMI), the NDCP undertakes extension programs consisting of short- and medium-term courses, seminars, workshops, conferences, lecture series and forums on national security. Other short- courses include Seminar on Conflict Management, Young Leader’s Program (YLP) and Resolution and Project Management Seminar for Executives and Practitioners. Tasked to extend the reach of the College, the DMI is one of the three institutes under the Department of Research and Special Studies (DRSS) headed by Commodore Mariano S Sontillanosa AFP (Ret).
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