If you are familiar with Linux, you already heard about open software.  It simply means that with Linux, you can download an OS and its code (anyone can improve said system).   With this we can harness the creativity of our young students and professionals in creating a modified system for academic and national gov’t needs.  In the process, we can pump prime the economy by giving add’l employment to our youth.  Perhaps we can create a modified TCP/IP system to implement on the BPL.  I believe, a simple modification to the data packets may be made for a closed Phil. only internet. 

Another approach may be to partner with the creators of 2nd Life (http://secondlife.com/whatis/) and using unmodified TCP/IP, with the BPL implemented as a large Wide-Area-Network.

Continuous harnessing of Filipino talents here and abroad and the emerging technologies will be in our country’s favor.  New applications can be invented such as online census or voting system, not to mention having a unified national ebusiness h-way.

We can modify the  BPL modem to include a sim card and perhaps a biometric panel attachment where thumbmarks can be processed for a higher level of security.  Perhaps, in the process our country may overtake other countries in technology!