Stanford University California (2015)

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Stanford University, located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. Since it’s opening in 1891, Stanford has been dedicated to finding solutions to big challenges and to preparing students for leadership in a complex world.

Stanford welcomes almost 150,000 visitors annually. And what makes it unique that time is I am one of their luckiest visitors for that year! Haha 

Let’s start the long walk together with Yaya, the very smart and intelligent black-American campus volunteer, who patiently toured us around the campus discussing significant landmarks, history and academic programs of the university. 

Where I stand is one of the very significant landmarks of the Stanford University where the brilliant technological invention of Hewlett & Packard comes out. According to their site, in 1939, with the encouragement of their professor and mentor, Frederick Terman, Stanford alumni David Packard and William Hewlett established a little electronics company in a Palo Alto garage. That garage would later be dubbed "the Birthplace of Silicon Valley."

Mayor Joet during his hand-over of our cocomat pouch bag to Yaya as our token of appreciation. Cocomat is locally produced in our hometown as livelihood of a small group of entrepreneurial women. 

In Stanford University the access to emergency hotline is just a touch of a finger away, as shown in the picture. A month after returning to the Philippines, we have replicated this practice by strategically placing eight (8) units of information kiosks at pocket parks along the university town area of the City of Balanga. This interactive service is an in-house solution that combines the best technology from City of Balanga that is powerful and flexible enough to meet a wide range of customer needs. The solution allows users to access the information on city government social services, education-related ideas and informative videos for live interaction with our call center agent thereby reducing waiting time and increasing customer satisfaction, improving customer experience by providing services such as information about local destination and other government services. The City of Balanga Information Hub enables touch screen interactivity that delivers a variety of rich media improves customer service experience and increases student-learning opportunities. This is our innovative way of securing the safety of our students while exploring knowledge and business information using digital technology.

Standing at the metered parking post along the Bay Beach Area of San Francisco AT&T Park yearning to replicate the same practice. In the city of balanga, tricycle motor -vehicle is our common means of transportation. Despite implementing various traffic rules and regulations and city ordinances around Balanga’s central business district, common issues on re-routing, traffic congestion, and fare rate between commuter and tricycle operators are still prevalent. That’s why I am still encouraging groups of graduating students, particularly those in ICT, to come up with thesis proposals particularly on this kind of transportation system that will somehow help the city to address the related issues and possibly turn this into a startup business for the students.