In spite of the fiery rhetoric of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte that he is ?separating from the United States,? the local outsourcing industry has launched a roadmap that will coincide with the term of the current administration.
Taken aback at the pronouncement of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte during his state visit to China that he is ?separating from the United States,? the top BPO organization in the Philippines has asked for clarification from the Department of ICT regarding the chief executive?s policy pivot.
The sector will need at least 30,000 new developers in the next four years as the Philippines scales up the value chain in the global IT services market.
Converge ICT, a fiber-optic connection service provider, is ready to do battle in the lucrative broadband market and is now building up its presence all over Luzon and soon in Visayas and Mindanao.
Among the electronic products, semiconductors continued to have the biggest share with total of 39% that posted an increase of 11.2% from $1.719 billion in August 2015 to $1.912 billion in August 2016.
US-based technology firm NCR Corp. has introduced in the Philippines a range of automated teller machines (ATMs) with deposit and recycling facilities, including an ATM that is powered by the ubiquitous Android operating system (OS).
A geo-location firm has announced its high-tech data capture vehicles had reached the halfway point of a 45,000-kilometer mission to create the first ever comprehensive digital map of the Philippine road network.
The Department of Trade and Industry has announced that Australia?s Sydney Harbor Tall Ships, a company operating cruises and private charters in Sydney Harbor, will be opening their call center in the Philippines.
Allan Cabanlong has been named the first executive director of the DICT's Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center (CICC) after a stint with the Philippine National Police (PNP).
The report noted that the most problematic factors for doing business in the Philippines are inefficient government bureaucracy, inadequate supply of infrastructure, and corruption.
