Joey de Venecia III, who exposed the ZTE-NBN transaction leading to the country’s saving P16 billion, will work to provide broadband information for the entire Philippines to create millions of new jobs and to advance education, and for Internet-linked computer for every family nationwide.
This is one of the programs of government of Joey, if elected to the Philippine Senate on May 10. Joey was in Davao to conduct a multi-sectoral consultation, meet his supporters and conduct a press briefing.
De Venecia admitted the program was difficult but “achievable with political will and budgetary support.”
“As a businessman, I have brought into our economy foreign investments totaling $100 million,” de Venecia said, adding “I introduced wireless broadband internet service and in 1997, set up our country’s first call center.” Today, call centers nationwide employ 650,000 people.
He said the broadband project will propel the Filipino people into the 21st century.
Another project de Venecia intends to pursue is the “Billion Trees” Movement which he co-founded to protect the Philippines from climate change, drought and killer floods “and create many jobs as in the profitable trees industries of Canada, Finland and New Zealand.”
At the same time, de Venecia last week warned that the May 10 automated elections could face “countless problems.”
The effects could be disastrous, if a virus were to strike the computer system of the Commission on Elections in next month’s elections, De Venecia said.
He said the global experience of PC (personal computer) users is a strong argument for the holding of a parallel manual count of th votes, said the ZTE-NBN scandal whistleblower.
Two House speakers come from Joey’s family -his father-Jose de Venecia Jr. and his grandfather -Eugenio Perez. [AMA]
