Our own model of collective governance was conceptualized when we realized we were already gaining momentum in our business model research. Our fund generation research was already leading us to new facts with true details that are now being known to the global public, the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 and the U.S. Petrodollar history in particular (discussed in Chapter 6). Furthermore,  suppressed technologies on information and communications and artificial intelligence, transportation, nanotechnology, building construction, food production, free energy, atmospheric water, and many more are emerging. While we have already realized that the government is really so rigid and the only solution is to involve the people in a collective governance practice, the approach can be facilitated by using technologies in enlightening the people that new business models provide the solutions. Changing the government just gives false expectations as it has happened before.

As early as 2010, our attempts to prepare a unified national development agenda for the Philippines started. In November 2011, the first draft of the  Solidaridad 2020 Agenda as a  three-part national development undertaking for the Philippines was completed through a progressive research and planning works. In July 2013, it was completed into a four-part agenda adding the Urban Agenda. The national development agenda was thought of by providing an alternative development initiative through collective governance.  It was an idea through a meeting of the minds that started in a Law Office in Manhattan, New York City by three Filipinos based in New York with two things in common.  We are all Freemasons and alumni of the University of the Philippines. Emiliano De Guzman from the College of Law, Simplicio Endaya from the School of Economics. and myself from UPLB are the three.  This meeting would slowly pave the way for the development of the Solidaridad 2020 Agenda.

Solidaridad 2020 Agenda (Chapter 34) is a bold rolling program based on the geography and the natural and human resources of the Philippines. The alternative national development agenda focuses on the country’s interisland geography, its river basins as an economic and ecological system,  its urban centers of population, and primarily its agro-industrial development direction.