Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
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Asia’s leading outsourcing players are exploring a shift from individual country promotion towards collaboration and integration to help expand the region’s share of the global information and communications technology (ICT) market.
As part of this transformation, regional IT stakeholders will gather next month for the Cebu ICT 2007 International Conference and Exhibition.
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"Collaboration will enable and empower individual Asian countries to more effectively deliver services, sell products, develop technologies, and thus respond more efficiently to the ever-growing global outsourcing demand," said Cebu Business Month-ICT chairman Bonifacio Belen, who is also executive director of the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (CEDF-IT).
Cebu ICT 2007 will take place June 26-28 at the
Initiatives to promote collaboration include an Asian circuit of ICT events to enhance knowledge-sharing and networking among investors and industry professionals, as well as developing shared performance and certification standards. Mr. Belen said he expects progress in securing international recognition for the Philippine IT general certification exam (PHIL-IT GCE). Originally developed to certify Filipino IT knowledge workers, the exam can be applied regionally as well.
"Cebu ICT 2007 will hopefully contribute to harnessing Asian potential through ground-breaking collaboration in the vital frontier of innovation ecosystem advancement, investment promotion, and human capital development," said Mr. Belen.
"The business opportunity is definitely in outsourcing and its support industries, and Asian countries are realizing the need to capitalize on each other’s strengths. We look forward to transforming
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