Archive for the ‘ICT’ Category

Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net
QUEZON CITY, Philippines — The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) has opened its seventh e-learning center in Loyola Heights under its eSkwela project.
The CICT through its Human Capital Development Group (CICT HCDG) launched in 2005 eSkwela to provide disadvantaged youth with educational opportunities to help reduce the digital divide and enhance their [...]

Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked as the 10th most competitive IT industry environment in the Asia-Pacific, a recent study showed.
Based on the 2008 IT Industry Competitive Index, the Philippines moved up one rank from last year but still remains 47th worldwide, a study by the Economist Intelligene Unit commissioned by Business Software Alliance [...]

Rainier Allan Ronda
Philippine Star
LAHUG, Cebu – The Department of Education (DepEd) is hoping to get P2 billion to fund the implementation of a five-year plan to set up a cyber education program in the public education system starting next year.
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, in an interview with education reporters covering the 3rd National Information Communication [...]

by Lawrence Casiraya
from INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Local government units (LGUs) will need to step up in order to accommodate the rapidly expanding IT services industry, according to industry analyst XMG.
Based on its midyear report, XMG said the industry employs between 340,000 and 360,000 people at present, more than 70 percent of which are located in [...]

Helen Flores
Philippine Star
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) recently reported that a majority of public and private high schools in the country still have no Internet access.
Ester Ogena, director of the Science Education Institute of the DOST, said the 2003 SEI study showed that 70.2 percent of 6,313 public and private high school respondents [...]

Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines–The open-source and software-as-service markets may provide the country’s best chances to keep up with outsourcing leaders India and China, according to industry analyst Ovum.
David Mitchell, UK-based Ovum’s senior vice president for IT research, said the Philippines needs to focus on niche areas where it can compete better in terms of higher-value services.
Smaller [...]

Rene Martel
Manila Times
FOR millions of Filipino netizens, having a Friendster account and meeting, greeting and socializing on it with relatives and friends every day is a way of life.
In fact, such is the enormous popularity of this social network in the Philippines that it has propelled it to the undisputed No. 1 spot in [...]

Mary Ann Ll. Reyes
Philippine Star
The number of registered Internet subscribers in the Philippines has increased to 2.5 million as of the end of last year, according to the National Telecommunications Commission.
From only half a million in 2001, the number of subscribers of NTC-registered Internet service providers or ISPs has jumped to two million in 2006 [...]

Philippine Star
Eastwood City Cyberpark — the country’s very first information technology (IT) park developed by top business process outsourcing (BPO) office condominiums developer Megaworld Corp. — remains the country’s number one IT park in many aspects, according to a recent data from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority or PEZA.
In terms of employment, Eastwood Cyberpark has [...]

July 24, 2008
THE operator of the Netopia chain of Internet cafes will close more branches in the second half of this year on weak consumer spending due to soaring inflation.
“We will close three more branches in Bicol in the remaining part of this year,” George Tan, Digital Paradise Inc. (CDPI) president told The Manila Times [...]