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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Group calls on Pinoy IT workers overseas to help RP counterparts
The Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it) is inviting Filipino IT professionals who work overseas to share their expertise with their colleagues in the country.
“We would encourage them to come and speak in our IT seminars and train-ings and share whatever they’ve learned abroad,” said Bonifacio Belen, Cedf-it executive director.
He admitted, though, that the idea poses a challenge to the group.
Filipino IT professionals overseas are busy and constrained to their jobs. They will have difficulties getting connected to the Philippines, he said.
He told Sun.Star Cebu that, in Singapore alone, there are around 700 IT Filipino workers. Even in India, he said, there are Filipino animators who can contribute a lot in developing the country’s IT professionals.
OFW investment
Makati Business Club executive director Guillermo Luz said, though, that the challenge is not only in putting together the intellectual resources of overseas Filipino workers, but also in convincing them (OFWs) to invest in the country.
He pointed out that many businesses in Taiwan and India were created by investments of their overseas workers.
“We don’t see that happening in our country, maybe not in the same scale. OFWs who invest in our country are quite. We need to hear from them. We are in search for success stories,” he told Cebu business executives during the Microsoft Business Forum last Wednesday.
Once people know of success stories, then more will come and invest, he said, adding that there are around eight million OFWs in over 100 countries worldwide.
Belen said a few Cebuanos have come back after living and working abroad who have put up small IT businesses in Cebu.
Luz also called for the academe and the business sectors to put their acts together in creating a better and competitive economy.
“By having more and more relationships between the academe and the business sectors, we will have a better business community,” he said. (ALC)
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