eServices6th Outsourcing Conference and ExhibitionThe Provincial Government of Bohol through the Bohol Investment Promotion Center in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry-Bohol Provincial Office participated in the recently concluded 6th Oursourcing Conference and Exhibition, 16-17 February 2006, EDSA Shangri-La Hotel.
e-Services Philippines, the country's first and only annual IT/BPO conference and exhibition promotes to both local and global markets the country's world-class capabilities in IT and IT-enabled services, partic ularly in the following areas:Business Process Outsourcing, Wireless Application, Data Transcription, Animation, and Software.
For Bohol's part, Provincial Director Maria Elena C. Arbon of the DTI Bohol Office presented Bohol as an emerging ICT location of the Philippines to not less than 100 prospective ITES locators and investors who are attending the e-Services Exbihition.
The participation generated first-hand learning from industry experts and productive negotiations with possible partners especially in HR development.
Members of the team are the following: DTI --- RD Asteria C. Caberte, PD Maria Elena C. Arbon, STIDS Lucille C. Autentico BIPC ---- Ms. Ma. Fe Dominise, Mr. Melchisidic Dolotina, Mr. Brendan Torralba SP --- Board Member Corazon Galbreath.
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ICT TOUR IN CEBU
Last January 26-27, 2006, representatives from DTI Bohol, Bohol Investment Promotion Center (BIPC) and the Academe visited call centers, business process outsourcing and medical transcription companies in Cebu City. The visit to the International School for Medical transcription (ISMT), People’s Support, E-Telecare, Bigfoot Global Solutions, International Academy of Film and Television, and Sykes generated productive discussions on possible collaboration between schools and ICT companies for human resource development.
Some of the major discussions and commitments reached during the activity are the following:
· ISMT will offer franchise arrangement of their course module to qualified partners;
· People’s Support will support in HR development e.g. training with select groups in private schools;
· e-Telecare will support in HR development e.g. language training for public school teachers, and also advocacy by making available video presentation materials and speakers during school campaign sorties;
· Bigfoot Global Solution will support in advocacy e.g. availability of presentation materials and speakers during campaign sorties in schools
· Sykes will support in HR development and advocacy; the DTI, BIPC and Sykes are planning to conduct a roadshow in Bohol tentatively set last week of February or first week of March 2006.
The response of the companies is so inspiring. We planned to get everyone excited, and hopefully increase the awareness of the students about this new career alternative.
