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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Market local IT events in Japan - expert to CH
A Japanese information technology (IT) expert is urging the Cebu City Government to undertake its own efforts to promote the local software industry in Japan and other countries.
Atsuo Mizayaki, a veteran systems engineer with 37 years of experience in information systems at Hitachi Ltd., said this after observing that the Philippine government has been taking a “rather passive” stance in marketing the country’s IT activities in the Japanese market compared to the governments of China and India.
Effective
“If national marketing activity led by the National Government or the entire IT sector is difficult, an active appeal by local governments to the Japanese market may be effective,” he said.
He cited the efforts of the city of Dalian in China, where the Chinasoft Development Center is located. Chinasoft Development Center is the offshore partner of Chinasoft Tokyo, of which Mizayaki is president.
Mizayaki specifically mentioned Cebu City in his recommendations for the Philippine IT industry, which was published by the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro).
“For example, Cebu City, which is very aggressive in IT industry promotion, can bring together the small and medium scale IT companies within the city or collaborate with other local governments or business conglomerates and create a software industry promotion strategy,” he said in the report.
Mizayaki, who also worked at the Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization as director for training and the Japan PKI Forum as chief researcher, stayed in the Philippines last year and visited 10 IT companies, which included Cebu-based software companies SPI Technologies Inc., Powerpro Software Solutions and Primary Software Development Corp.
High level
In general, the Japanese IT expert said, the technical skill level of software developers is high in the Philippines than those in China.
“While China (saw the establishment of) thousands of software companies in a very short period, the reality is that the quality of its engineers has deteriorated inversely proportional to the growth of the size of its IT industry,” Mizayaki said.
“It is possible that Japanese software houses, having failed in their offshore outsourcing to China, will take a fresh look at the Philippines as alternative destination for offshore software development,” he added.
Sun.Star Cebu was furnished a copy of the Jetro-published report. (JBN)
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