Trade and Industry Updates: Bohol

The 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.