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More businesses mean more jobs. These are what the current administration seeks to generate for the country's development.
With this in mind, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) is developing the Philippines Cyberservices Corridor (PCC) to encourage investment in the ICT sector.
Stretching 600 miles from Baguio City in Northern Luzon to Zamboanga in Mindanao, the cyberservices corridor currently houses 75,000 call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies, which are being served by a high-bandwidth fiber backbone and digital network.
As top priority project this year, the CICT will work in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in promoting the PCC as a destination like the Telecom Corridor in Texas, USA. CICT Commissioner for Strategic Business Development Group, Damian Domingo Mapa revealed that the project is patterned after the International North-East BioScience Corridor in the USA and Canada. Similarly, PCC will be developed as a global brand like the Multimedia Super Corridor of Malaysia.
According to Mapa, the Philippine Cyberservices will be the brand of e-services delivered by Filipinos through the Internet, which includes call handling, BPO, content transformation, and transcription. The Philippine Cyberservices Corridor will serve as a one-stop-shop for e-services investors who may want to invest in the Philippines. |
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Let’s celebrate the National ICT Month this June! With the theme, “A Digitally Empowered Philippines”, the event aims to actively promote, enhance and instill nationwide awareness and appreciation on the importance and value of ICT to different sectors. The activities lined up include, among others, the formal launch of the Philippine Digital Strategy 2011-2016, the launch of the commemorative stamp for the National ICT Month 2011, and the celebration of the 40th Founding Anniversary of the National Computer Center. All stakeholders from the private sector, academe, civil society and government, are encouraged to likewise organize their respective activities in line with celebrating the milestones of this event.
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