Another relevant and exciting episode of Vigattin Radio aired last Saturday at Radio Inquirer 990 AM as more startups were featured. Vigattin Radio has been earnest in its effort in bringing more attention to promising startups and the growth and development of a new generation of entrepreneurs and the support they get from various groups and organizations. This issue has become more relevant as Filipinos are becoming more and more innovative and more resourceful of business opportunities, especially those that make use of information technology and the Internet.
Invited to be part of the panel of this discussion was Trina dela Rama and Rina Malonzo of PortfolioMNL.com, as well as Earl Valencia for Ideaspace and tudlo.me’s Vince Loremia.
PortfolioMNL.com is a website for multimedia portfolios by creative professionals, like artists, architects, illustrators, graphic designers, interior designer and many others. PortfolioMNL.com has a platform for creative professionals to show off their work to a more directed audience of people.
At PortfolioMNL.com, creative professionals can upload jpeg images, video or audio and post them for others to view samples of their work with a professional look and give an opportunity for people to talk about opportunities. The site also features job listings so that creative professionals can get connected and be seen by the people who are looking for their particular talents. They said it is free at the moment, but eventually will be paid service. This will be where microwork can be found and the whole industry pf freelancers and designers can find each other.
Earl Valencia then elaborated more on Ideaspace as a program to help out startups with promising ideas , like PortfolioMNL.com and tudlo.me. Earl Valencia wishes for those with innovative ideas for new ventures to go to their website at ideaspacefoundation.org to learn more about them and to download their application.
The via phone patch is Vince Loremia of tudlo.me, a disaster preparedness application. He explains that tudlo is a Visayan word which means to teach, to guide, to point. Tudlo as an application is designed for people to cope with disasters and unexpected life events and emergencies floods, typhoons and earthquakes. Vince Loremia came up with the idea when he was in Manila during heavy flooding and thought that during disasters, information like maps and advisories were very important to individuals.
The application has been developed for Android, iphone and the web, and allows th user to see updates of events and see reports from the government, the police, the Red Cross, as well as provides emergency numbers and safety guides. Tudlo has made social impact and in the future hopes to be brought nationwide with government support working on the basis crowdsourcing for disaster and preparedness. It has maps, event description, among others and aims to be a localized and contextual service as it uses the local language.
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