Headline, July07, 2013

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!WOW! and Sam Daily Times and any future inventions -by any form or name- brands, capital, scholarships, revenue, -all and everything that would or could constitute a student ''eco-system'' belongs to its rightful owners: The Students of the entire World.

The elected and empowered relevant body, at the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless, shall oversee all and every affair, and serve always the best interests of every generation of students. This is the framework. And we are now very very close to getting it right

The costs of   -and in every manner of bringing the students of the entire planet together, have been very very great and many a times I suffered and felt, perhaps indefensible. Let me skip getting specific with the examples. But despite every setback and suffering, the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless could still, and would still, turn to be an extraordinary model for the entire world. The basic question and my nemesis so many a time  -was how do we  -draw down- from our daily distractions and ramp up on !WOW!. For we could then have a significant success to build on.

The students of the entire plant though, will soon be talking to each other negotiating their differences and for every part very peacefully; with that the students world will totally grow pluralistic and democratic; Sam Daily Times is free and independent and joint at the hip with !WOW!; students in every country will have their own sacred autonomy; and in no time the focus will shift to education, to inventions, to business and wealth creation and to a better world. !WOW! will have a window of opportunity to cement these gains in the years ahead as the ''eco-system'' takes form. 

In fullness of time, what will surprise you the most, would be the intensity of work. It will be a 24/7 honor. It sounds almost banal to say, but it's a really big big and huge world out there, and the students have grave and far reaching responsibilities everywhere. And the nature of challenges you will be facing are not only bilateral and multilateral, but they are profoundly transnational. One of the biggest challenges for you all would be  to keep presenting an ''affirmative agenda'' and not a reactive one.

The issue that reach and will reach !WOW! would most frequently be strategic  -(and)  but then don't forget that there are many many times more constituencies than there are countries. Your visible intellectual grasp would be to separate the 'urgent' from the 'important'  and to make sure that you are dealing with the important and not let the urgent drive out the important.

And your other formidable and even insolvable challenge then at !WOW! would also be, that you may have the finest thinkers in the world, but they would also be the most individualistic. To get them to work toward a coherent goal would be an assignment of the greatest magnitude conceivable. Hahaha!

Great great Fun beckons!

It is a great honor to round off this post with the wise words of this very loved human and President, the world over: President Bill Clinton. This may just help you with the perspective.

''For me it starts with acknowledging that this is the most interdependent world age in human history. it goes way beyond trade. The rich-world was trade dependent before World War 1 as it was in the 1990s, but we didn't have the Internet, we didn't have so much travel, and we didn't have so much immigration and so much diversity, so much shared scientific research.

We are linked in so many different ways that we can't get a divorce. Our actions impact each other, whether it's in an obvious place like the Middle East or why we should care about what happens in a borderless area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Interdependent could be good, bad or both and today it's both''. Absolutely true, Sir!

The art then would be for !WOW! to focus on the Students and then work backwards. Learn or incorporate quickly, whatever skills you need to serve the student. Build and invent whatever technology you need to serve the student. The important thing is that !WOW! is a great inventor, so don't just focus on ''me-too'' areas.

Like and delight to go down the unexplored areas, and see what's at the end

And then the thirds and final thing is, be determined  to be long term oriented, which I think, and you will discover, to be the rarest of things.

With most respectful dedication to the memory of this ''plain housewife' but she proved herself to be much much more than that : President Corazon Aquino. She reformed the Philippine Government, limited the power of the presidency, and restored democracy. A great President, indeed!

With most respectful dedication to the students and professors of Philippine. See ya all on !WOW! : the Vienna Philharmonic and beyond.

Good Night & God Bless!

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