by Jovie Cabais | Mar 14, 2010 | Tech Updates
By BEGT Zabala/PGMA The country raked in $ 7.3 billion in 2009 in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Business Processing and Outsourcing (BPO), which has livened up regional economies by stimulating business which provided half a million jobs in key cities and provinces such as Cebu, Pampanga, Iloilo, Bacolod and Davao since 2000 in the cyber corridor. But Bohol up to now hasn’t much reaped from this boom as with it’s neighboring provinces, despite active promotion and linkages with prospective investors. Though learning institutions have enhanced their curriculum to capacitate their students in having even the requisite skills to make it in the ICT industry somehow, not many Boholanos are able to make the cut. Clearly showing that much is needed to be done in further improving the ICT manpower skills of the Boholanos. Add to it, the lack of large suitable areas for infrastructure both for locators and for training centers as well. Thus, big players in the industry somehow cannot yet find it feasible to locate. This was one of the key points of discussions by the council members of the Bohol Information and Communication Technology Council (BICTC) Meeting held at the Department of Industry Bohol Provincial Office last Wednesday March 10, 2010 as the council reviewed it’s plans and programs to prepare for the next steps in making Bohol take full advantage of the ICT/BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) boom and exploit it as one of the poverty reduction strategies in further moving the province up among the ranks of the country’s richest provinces. National Scenario Currently, India is leading as the worlds...
