ILOILO City - A Technology Business Incubation Center will be established at the Negros First CyberCentre being constructed at the Paglaum Sports Complex in Bacolod City where information technology entrepreneurs (ITpreneurs) can start their own software businesses.
At the 1st Visayas ICT Organizational Conference at Sarabia Manor Hotel in Iloilo City yesterday, Jocelle Sigue, chairperson of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines, said that the CyberCentre will not only serve BPO companies and provide commercial spaces for businessmen but it will also be a place where ITprenuers can develop technologies and software, which they can market and sell to companies.
ICT-BPO companies in Bacolod City now employ 14,000 workers and about 37 locations are awaiting presidential proclamation for the Philippine Economic Zone Authority accreditation, Sigue said.
The Deputy Executive Director for Information Communication Technology of the Department of Science and Technology Alejandro Melchor III yesterday lauded the ICT advocates of the Visayas for their first conference in Iloilo City.
Melchor said it is a brilliant move for Visayas to unify their efforts to develop a regional consciousness and to synergize ICT ideas under a new program called the smarter system in the countryside or the smarter countryside.
The smarter system is an ICT enabled development created and applied to have a better way of doing things, he said.
Meanwhile, Capiz Gov. Victor Tanco. who also chairs the Regional Development Council of Western Visayas, expressed his support for ICT development in Visayas.
Tangco said the involvement of ICT in governance also generates more jobs and encourages internet service providers to establish more cell sites in areas where signal is minimal.
The conference was participated in by the ICT councils of Dumaguete and Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Leyte, Tacloban, Samar, and Aklan, and representatives of the DOST, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.*LTG
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