Haidee Emmie Palapar is the Communications Officer of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI). RAFI is a non-stock non-profit organization with a 44-year history and background in social development work in the Visayas and Mindanao. It has consistently been “touching people, shaping the future” and continues to work towards “elevating lives through a comprehensive approach that champions best practices in community development.”

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Regina Paz L. Lopez is the Managing Director of one of the Philippines’ biggest non-government organizations, the ABS-CBN Foundation.

She initiated Bantay Bata 163, the country’s first media-based hotline. In 1997, Bantay Bata was the United Nations Grand Awardee for Excellence besting 187 countries all over the world.

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A fascination with content management systems (CMS) led Max Limpag to blogging. Limpag, who is currently the business editor of Sun.Star Cebu, started researching on open source CMSes in 2000 and started blogging intermittently using various CMSes and blogging services.

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Representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino of Kabataan Partylist is an activist, blogger, and second-termer in the Philippine House of Representatives. He is the Philippines’ first blogger turned legislator and currently the only youth representative in the legislative body.

As a student leader, he chaired the UP Diliman University Student Council in 2000 and was national president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines in 2001. He was one of the founders of the Kabataan Partylist which became one of the strongest youth political organizations in the Philippines.

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Tim Bennett has been an entrepreneur all his life after leaving school at 16.

30 years later as a successful entrepreneur with 2 companies in The Philippines (Argon Animation Inc and Argon Management Training Inc) Tim is an expert in niche marketing and using the power of the internet to propel his business on an international level.

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