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Monday, November 17, 2003
Cedf-it launches key partnerships
IN a series of strategic moves, the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it) recently organized and launched its partnership with several key players belonging to the academe, industry and the government.
o With the Commission on Higher Education (Ched), through its Regional Office 7, the Cedf-it IT Teachers Academy is collaborating anew in a “Consultative Workshop on Contents Analysis in Programming, Data Structures, Software Engineering, and Database Management” to be held on Dec. 4-5 at the audio-visual room of the University of Cebu in Banilad. This workshop is a critical sequel to the Curriculum Upgrading in IT Education held last April, another pioneering effort of Cedf-it to standardize IT curricula in the tertiary level among participating schools.
o With the Advanced Science and Technology Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Cedf-IT IT Teachers Academy is holding a three-day workshop, “Opening the Source: An Introductory Training on Applications Development in Linux,” on Nov. 24-26 at the Cebu Institute of Technology along N. Bacalso Ave. This training aims to provide a comprehensive appreciation of open source technology, as well as applications development in this environment.
o With the Board of Investments, through the sponsorship of the Department of Trade and Industry-Cebu and the Cebu Investment Promotions Center, Cedf-it will make its preliminary presentation on the results of its recently completed human resources IT survey during the Cebu IT Forum on Dec. 5. An Agile-Usaid grant funded the survey, involving 500 respondents from the chief IT stakeholders in Cebu. The survey will allow Cedf-it to ground its plans, programs and strategies on a set of credible baseline data on the supply, as well as the demand side, of the IT human resource situation in Cebu.
Other collaborative ventures have been initiated by Cedf-it and are in different stages of negotiation: with PLDT, with Innove, with Microsoft, and with Thomson & Ngee Ann Polytechnic of Singapore. Cedf-it hopes to surge further ahead with its vision via these key partnerships, thereby serving as catalyst in transforming Cebu into a major IT hub.
(November 17, 2003 issue)
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