Development gives us a wide variety of ideas which derives us into concepts. In choosing a development-oriented topic, one must identify what constituted underdevelopment, and what it lacks that hinders it from a progressive state.
Nur Lemuel Castillo, Batch 2015 emphasized three factors that should be taken into account when identifying a development oriented topic.
A topic is development-oriented if in promotes any of the 4 Es of Devcom
Empowerment. Nourishing problem-solving and decision making skills, raising social and political consciousness, and mobilizing people towards critical action.
Equity. Access to information and technology and hastening the redistribution of resources to the poor through communication.
Entrepreneurship. Promoting entrepreneurial spirit and communicating strategic information for agro-industrialization.
Environmentalism. Managing and sustaining the environment through information, education, advocacy, social mobilization, and community action.
A topic is development-oriented if it deals with stories of marginalized communities
It must give opportunities to the communities that are lacking when it comes to economic status, social well-being and technological advancement.
A topic is development-oriented if it tackles socio-economic issues involving community
Socio-economic issues are the primary factors that establish one’s community progress and if it gives emphasis on how a governing must have bottom-up communication, we can say it is a development-oriented topic.
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