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Philippine Cyberservices Corridor |
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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. |
