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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Cebu ICT event part of preparation for world summit
The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) will use the Cebu ICT 2005 as part of its preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis, Tunisia this November.
Commissioner Damian Domingo Mapa of the CICT said the Philippine delegate to the summit will report on the country’s contributions in ICT areas like privacy, security, data protection and e-society.
“We started convening the Philippine Summit on the Information Society in May last year. We drafted the Philippine statement here in Manila, and then presented it to industry stakeholders in Zamboanga. This time, the Cebu ICT 2005 will serve as the Visayan leg of the summit, where we will present the draft again to industry players in the Visayas region,” he said in a statement.
The Conference and Exhibition on Business and Information and Communications Technology (Cebu ICT) 2005, organized by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry as part of the Cebu Business Month 2005, will take place on June 22-24 at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino.
The CICT will conduct a session during the Cebu ICT 2005 on the development of a Philippine cyber-services corrider. Mapa said the session will discuss a campaign by President Gloria Arroyo to “set up 15 to 20 new ICT and outsourcing hubs from Baguio to Zamboanga.”
The WSIS is organized by the International Telecommunication Union and the United Nations. Some 150 heads of state participate in the event.
The Department of Trade and Industry and the Board of Investments are co-organizing the Cebu ICT 2005, which also has the support of the Philippine Computer Society (PCS), Meralco Foundation Inc. and the Philippine Quality and Productivity Movement (PQPM).
PQPM will provide resource speakers and panel reactors, including Bing Biera of Texas Instruments in Baguio, said Alejandro Escaño, president of PQPM.
The PCS, on the other hand, will hold the awarding ceremony for its annual honoring of outstanding chief information officers during the event.
Cebu ICT 2005 is expected to draw many Japanese companies because the Japan External Trade Organization-Manila is helping to promote the event in the Philippines and in Japan.
Participants are also expected from Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States and Vietnam. (CTL/with JBN)
(June 9, 2005 issue)
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