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Kathleen Madrid del Rosario Manuel

kathy.manuel@yahoo.com (email)

dailykathleen.wixsite.com/dailykathleen (wixsite)

09167052898 (cellphone)

(Country code +63) (Area code 02) 83629112 (PLDT landline)

57 Sampaguita St, Araneta Village, Barangay Potrero, Potrero, Malabon 1476 Philippines

23 L Scout Ybardolaza, Barangay Sacred Heart, Diliman, Quezon City 1103 Philippines 

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Educational Attainment

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Master of Arts (M.A.) in Communications (Communication Research) (Candidate)

University of the Philippines (UP) - Diliman

UP College of Mass Communications (UP CMC)

1998-2000

Will finish my M.A. thesis in my 70s, 80s or 90s.

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Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Economics

University of the Philippines (UP) - Diliman

School of Economics (SE)

1990-1994

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University College of London (UCL) short course online

Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

https://extend.ucl.ac.uk/login/index.php

2017

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Exams Taken

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National College Entrance Exam 99.99 ++. 1990.

Civil Service Exam. Civil Service Commission. 87%. 1990.

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Extracurricular Activities

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Externals Committee Head. AY 1992-1993. University of the Philippines Organization of Business Economics Majors (UP OBEM). The Externals Committee handled events, Reachout and plate.

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Made decisions on where to go for Reachout. Reachout is the charity activity of the organization. We went to an orphanage for streetchildren.

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OBEM attended and helped out during Immunization Week activities of the government (Patak Pinoy): coordinated with fellow Committee heads after-activity activities (like a meal out)

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Member, University of the Philippines Organization of Business Economics Majors (UP OBEM), 1991-1994.

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Member, University of the Philippines Economics Society (UP ECOSOC), 1991-1994.

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Member, Junior Philippine Economics Society (JPES), 1993.

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Attended week night parties and disco dancing

Joined the car stuffing activity of the organization

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Rosary Confraternity, 2018

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Din Tai Fung VIP Club, 2017

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Glamourbox Glambabe, 2012. Glamourbox is a subscription box.

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Social Media

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Wixsite. dailykathleen.wixsite.com/dailykathleen

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Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/dailykathleen/ saved/

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Tumblr. kathleendelrosariomanuel.tumblr.com

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Work Tumblr. https://parentinginthemetro.tumblr.com/

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Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kathleendelrosariomanuel/

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Linkedin. linkedin.com/in/kathleen-manuel-9a15a4205

 

Twitter. https://twitter.com/DailyKathleen

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Webinars

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Fashion in Web 3.0: Creativity, Sustainability and Gen Z

Date: 5/31 - 6/02 2022 (Attended the last day of the webinar, 6/02 2022: How to Attract Gen Z with Web 3.0)

Time: 7PM to 8Pm CST

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Fibre2Fashion Sustainability Conclave 2022

June 6 and June 7 2022

Time: 1.30PM to 7.30PM (+8 GMT) 

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Work Experience

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Homeschooling mother. Since birth of my children - present.

 

Primary instructor for two children during pre-school onward 

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Develops and implements appropriate curriculum Catholic Filipino Academy (Kindergarten of our son (instruction was English) then he also took Kinder in Seton Home Study School) and Seton Home Study School. a US-based Roman Catholic homeschooling private school curriculum.

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Plans and develops consumable educational content for homeschool-age (started at birth) children

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Evaluates performance of two students, homeschooled

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Creates a positive and effective homeschool classroom environment

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Maintains all student records

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Chooses and provides extracurricular activities

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Oversees lab experiments

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Poetry Authoress. I make poems for PR, ads, marketing and sales and operations and websites.

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2019 to present. Press Corp. Store Specialists, Incorporated (SSI). Volunteer work for the parentinginthemetro.tumblr.com.

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Attended the Philippine Harvest in 2019.

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Wrote a press release on the Shake Shack, recognized by Bon Appetit as "The 20 Most Important restaurants in America"

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July 2002 to May 2005. Communication Specialist. Social Security System (SSS). Quezon City, Philippines.

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Wrote press releases on the SSS, policies, programs, the SSS Fund

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Wrote Letters to the Editor to respond to SSS information and news in the newspapers and other media

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Wrote radio scripts for the Media Affairs Department (MAD) use to assist members and pensioners of the SSS

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Prepared and assembled press kits

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Coordinated press conferences for the then SSS President and the Spokesperson

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Prepared a communications campaign for SSS pensioners

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Assisted in monitoring news clippings of where press release or news release from our end appeared. Also mentions on TV or radio were monitored.

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Prepared internal and external communications

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March 2001 - September 2001. Served in the capacity of Content Manager. Lycosasia Philippines. Ortigas, Metro Manila.

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Coordinated with Lycosasia Philippines team members such as the Business Development Officer, Marketing Manager, Producer (myself), Designer and Developer.

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Coordinated with Lycosasia Singapore to "push live" the Lycosasia Philippines website so it will be seen by everyone

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Coordinated with Nestle Philippines for the promotion of Nestle Chuckie Chocolait, a chocolate drink aimed at gradeschoolers 

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Attended regional meetings in Singapore and Malaysia

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Prepared a woman-only website that did not see through because the 1997 financial crisis affected Lycosasia operations and Lycosasia and all its regional offices shut down on September 2001

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April 2000 - December 2000. Researcher. Harnessing Self-Reliant Initiatives and Knowledge, Inc. (HASIK), a woman's non-government organization (NGO). An NGO is also called a not-for-profit organization.

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Taught self-care initiatives such as yoga and meditation to fellow HASIK colleagues  

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Attended workshops on Anti-Violence Against Women (VAW)

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Coordinated with colleagues during trainings and workshops

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Prepared a research design on Reproductive Health and anti-VAW which HASIK used in selected communities in District 2 Quezon City

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October 1998 to March 2000. Finished the subject requirements for Master of Arts in Communications (Communication Research) except my thesis subject. I am a candidate for an M.A. degree. All I have to do is finish my thesis. I took the Comprehensive Exams and I got the highest grade in those who took the exam. That was in 2000.

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 March 1998 - June 1998. Landowner. Worked in our family's agricultural business (rice) in Region V, province of Albay.

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Was in-charge of the farming operations from planning up to harvesting.

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Coordinated with our employees and decided operations in the farm such as applying herbicide, insecticide, planting until harvest of planted

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Produced a bumper crop

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July 1996 - March 1998. Legislative Consultant. Department Legislative Liaison Office (DLLO). Department of Health (DOH). Manila, Philippines.

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Prepared position papers on the stance of the DOH on bills that were being passed, both in Congress and the Senate, into laws

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Attended the budget hearings of the Department of Health (DOH) when it was being passed in Congress

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Coordinated with different groups such as Committee members and heads in both Congress and the Senate, advocacy groups, DOH offices and program offices, Senators and Congressmen and the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) where the DLLO is under

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In 1997, when I was 24, I became a Legislative Fellow of the World Health Organization (WHO) and had a month-long fellowship in the Us in Houston, Texas; Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois and Washington D.C., the capital of the USA. Coordinated with policymakers, a Congresswoman, a teacher, chiefs of hospitals and went to offices such as the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to talk about policy and legislation

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prepared legislation-drafting workshops for stakeholders and participants of the DLLO and the DOH

Prepared reports needed by our chief in the DLLO

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December 1995 to June 1996. Reporter. Businessworld, a business paper.

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Covered the Banking and Finance beat of the newspaper

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Was assigned to the Central Bank of the Philippines, now Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and Malacañang Palace, where the President of the Philippines lives and works

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Prepared in-depth reports such as the expenses made on the foreign travels of then President Fidel V. Ramos and in-depth reports on the Makati City Hall

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December 1994 - September 1995. Training and Policy Assistant. Health Policy Development Staff (HPDS), Department of Health (DOH)

Coordinated with my colleagues in the HPDS in the preparation of reports needed by the Chief of the HPDS

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Coordinated with different DOH offices for their position on the policies of the Secretary of Health, Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries and Directors of the programs and offices

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Worked as Secretariat during high-powered meetings every Monday of the Secretary of Health with Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries and Directors of DOH programs and offices

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Prepared the minutes of the meetings and circulated them to those concerned during these high-powered Monday meetings

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Summer 1988. Storekeeper/Cashier. A drugstore and school supplies shop owned by my parents. Quezon City, Philippines. Summer job.

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Coordinated with my parents when supplies were to be replenished

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Was the cashier in-charge of turning over the day's earnings to my parents

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Summer 1985. Cashier. Scout Drugstore. A drugstore owned by my mother. Quezon City, Philippines. Summer job.

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Coordinated with my parents when supplies and medical supplies and medicine were to be replenished.

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My name is Kathleen and some of the jobs I held were as Communications Specialist and Business Reporter. I am a homeschooling mother now.

I was inspired to research and write this article after reading Tom Taulli’s article, “Facial recognition bans: what do they mean for AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Forbes.com. Here is his article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/06/13/facial-recognition-bans-what-do-they-mean-for-ai-artificial-intelligence/?sh=1ea18c6a46ee

 

The New Buzzword is Artificial Intelligence

By Kathleen Madrid del Rosario Manuel

Metro Manila, March 5 2021

Machines should only do what humans cannot. --- Jack Ma

In an article, Alibaba founder Jack Ma: ‘AI will cause more people pain than happiness’

Machines, because of machine learning, and human data scientists who have found a way to aggregate and sift through myriad of data, have brought about a point of view that says machines will automatically replace some humans in jobs.

The human spirit and endurance has been such that spacecraft have astronauts and oil rigs are manned by engineers. The loneliest job in the world, according to an article by Kristina Rudic in vault.com, entitled World’s Loneliest Job, is a fire lookout at Gila National Forest. Gila National Forest, located in New Mexico and a lookout is supposed to warn about fire that may start and consume the forest. Months on end, the looker will be by himself, a pair of binoculars for his companion in his work.

We marvel at the tests of limits and endurance people could take. Loneliness is seen from the outside, with people noticing who they think is lonely when what they really see is a human used to little or no human contact and quite accustomed to it.

That is what the pandemic COVID-19 served to reinterate. That human life is fragile and should matter, whether lonely, alone or not. Here we see how artificial intelligence could make even more people lonely and detached.

What about artificial intelligence and how it is laying claim to the future? AI, hand in hand with machine learning, are producing computers, equipment and robots whom they say will take over our jobs and do our work for us.

The cost of AI has caused a shift in resource management and maximization for companies, both those big companies and medium to small corporations, who now must get data scientists and software and hardware specialists who will feed them dashboard metrics which will supposedly increase productivity, sales, level operations and make their employees, clients, customers and management prepared for the new future (with AI versus a pre-AI future).

I have read articles about the doomsday scenario robots and artificial intelligence will cause to the world population. I get a bit apprehensive everytime, being a mother of children below 18, and aspiring to go back to the workforce and thinking if a self-driving car will make it in the streets of Metro Manila.

I think AI use should be used in three main things. One, is is to increase food security hand-in-hand with the farmers and fishermen and traders, to the supermarkets, stores and restaurants. Two, AI can be used to assist humans, not replace them, their life, their raison d’etre and their work, job, livelihood or business. Three, artificial intelligence has use in cybersecurity.

Artificial intelligence should be there to make us feel secure, not whittle or whitewash us out.

There must be a way for AI to come up with ideas the promote food and job security and decrease the risk of cyberspace attacks on our website real estate.

This idea is to promote robots working for, and alongside humans, instead of being a threat to both job and peace of mind.

Robots are there to assist and not challenge or else there will be selectivity in all aspects. Considering the limitations of neural networks and considering the breakdown of machines and thus constant upkeep, what will happen is we will keep using AI and machine learning in industries and occupations which we no longer want to handle or thrive, or give to the Third-world economies to do as outsourced work.  

It is an idea that AI and machine learning will create a hegemony of work culture, that we get to select which jobs should be peak and increasing in number. Corollarily, that AI and machine learning gets to choose which jobs to render extinct or useless., through robots or machines or programs.

This should not be the case. The selectivity must be such that artificial intelligence should be used to select which industries and professions to favor and make more productive, not curry to or banish.

If we are not careful, what will be left are designers and developers of software, hardware and programs for the robots that increase farm productivity instead of the very humans and institutions they are trying to replace. We will be left with Salesforce engineers and experts and no longer be with the sales personnel who are responsible for doing business and territorial development and expansion or product designers who see how humans actually use and re-use their products and services.

If we do not have AI and machine learning regulations, what we will have a surplus of are data scientists whose predicative ability lies only within the data that was gathered and encoded by humans themselves, the very thing they are trying to replace with the machines they are designing and machine and robot creators and maintenance personnel.

The threat is to remove frontliners and for self-driving cars, the drivers themselves. You go visit a website and what will talk with you are chatbots who seem artificial even though they are intelligent (“Thank you for choosing tulle in white. The feel of tulle is soft and fairy-like.”) Cars may be invented that deliver what you ordered although cannot control when the human steps on something slippery and bashes his head on the car-deliveryman. Human interaction is what is being humanly interrupted.

Although they say that in as little as thirty years, many of the scenarios, actual and imaginable, will have been thought of by data scientists and mined for data, programmed by their AI software engineers and maintained by their AI hardware engineers, one misses the point exactly by going full force with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Big data, big tech and data science misses the big picture for two reasons. One cannot see and encapsulate all the possible scenarios, including the effects of the emotions and thought processes that come into why humans do something. A machine, though without feeling, is ultimately not afraid or sad but is quite used to being what it is, an object we take pains turning into a pedigreed object that must be maintained.

Data science, data encryption, data encoding and data gathering will be the most sought after jobs as we set to encode and enter data that will be examined, studied and analyzed, for past information, a predictable present and a hoped for future with management-set objectives. This spells a foreboding because jobs will be skewed towards serving the pedigreed objects that are programs and robots, they that are dashboard and metrics sources, and computing jobs.

Another reason big data, data science and big tech do not see is that human explanation separates hard science into soft science. AI cannot begin to figure out why and how humans will do something (like they have come up with AI, machine learning, robots and neural network programming), just that they do.

There will be no rise of the machines but always, a selectivity, on what machines will rise, what industries artificial intelligence could be useful for, and who will be on the receiving end, job-wise and life-wise.

None the wiser, the new buzzword is artificial intelligence but just how intelligent these machines, robots and software and programs are still depends on a human. We must be careful about the rise of these machines because we still need humans for these machines’ upkeep. Enough with the statement the simplistic machines will replace humans and more of using AI and machine learning for the majority and common good.

References:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/alibaba-jack-ma-artificial-intelligence-more-pain-than-happiness

https://www.vault.com/blogs/job-search/the-worlds-loneliest-job

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