More than 20 ICT Councils to participate in NICP event
More than 20 information and communications technology (ICT) councils are expected to participate in the 3rd National ICT Summit in Bacolod City on November 25 to 26, with the theme “Connecting the Islands to the World.”
The event, which was started by the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) in 2008, has been an annual venue for ICT councils in various cities and provinces to keep abreast with the important global and national developments in the ICT and business process outsourcing industry.
Now on its third year, the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) Inc. serves as host to the event.
Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, concurrent chairperson of BNEFIT and NICP, said the event hopes to promote a strong collaboration between government, academe, and industry both in the national and local levels.
Batapa-Sigue said this is best exemplified in the ICT council’s structure at the local level where effective collaboration between various stakeholders is a requisite for the IT-BPO industry to continue to grow, as shown by strong government support, dynamic real estate and business sector participation, collaborative partnerships with industry players, and intensive human capital development programs.
The NICP, especially through the summit aims to be a national venue for collaboration, develop the member organizations through the sharing of best practices, among others, and to be the unified voice for the Philippine ICT industry.
Expected to attend are representatives from Albay ICT Association, Inc., Bulacan ICT Council, Cagayan de Oro ICT Council, Cebu Educational Development Foundation for IT, City of San Fernando Pampanga ICT Council, ICT Association of Dumaguete and Negros Oriental, ICT@Bicol Council, ICT Davao, Inc., ICT Solutions Association of Region 12–General Santos City, Iligan City ICT Council, Iloilo Federation for IT, Lipa ICT Council, Laguna Industry Network for Knowledge, Innovation and Technology Foundation, Metro Clark ICT Council Inc., Metro Ilocos Norte ICT Council, Vigan City ICT Council, Nueva Ecija ICT Council, Nueva Vizcaya ICT Council, Dagupan ICT Council and Bohol ICT Council.
The summit will feature an update from CICT Secretary Ivan John Uy and the talks of resource speakers from major partners such as IBM Philippines, Teleperformance, Philippine Computer Society, Game Developers Association of the Philippines, Business Processing Association of the Philippines, and the Philippine Software Industry Association.*
