Tuesday, December 23, 2008 DTI, Citem accept nominations for awards
THE Department of Trade and Industry, through the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (Citem), is now accepting entries for the e-Services 2009 Awards, an award that acknowledges the competencies of Philippine-based companies and the talents of Filipino professionals who excel in the field of Information Technology (IT).
The e-Services 2009 Awards will be held in conjunction with the 9th e-Services Global Sourcing Conference and Exhibition on Feb. 9 to 10, 2009 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.
“The 9th e-Services Global Sourcing Conference and Exhibition will not only provide IT companies and experts a place to interact with other industry players as well as gain valuable insights with the interface,” said Citem officer-in-charge Ma.
Lourdes Mediran. “It would also be a perfect avenue to recognize Filipino ingenuity and excellence and their contributions to
the IT industry.”
The competition—which will have four categories including Outstanding Client Application of the Year, Outstanding Consumer Application of the Year, Ground-breaking Technology of the Year and Most Progressive Homegrown Company of the Year—will bring to the forefront exceptional technology products and services, outsourcing projects and homegrown business process outsourcing companies.
2008 winners
Winners of the 2008 e-Services Awards for the competition awards were: Client Application of the Year, Sun Life VUL e-Learning Program by Media Farm and ATM System Development for a major bank in Japan by Advance World Systems; Consumer Application of the Year, Tekkids Courseware by Tech Factors Incorporated and Ur HR Partner by Navigator Systems Inc.; Technology of the Year, Online On-The-Job Simulation by Total Transcription Solutions Inc., NEXT I.X. INF by Next IX Inc. and Electronic Medical Record by EMR Global Corporation; Progressive Homegrown Company, Pointwest Technologies, TransProcure Corp. and People Support Philippines.
For the special citations, special recognition will be awarded to individuals, companies or institutions that have contributed to the advancement of the information technology (IT)-enabled services industry in the Philippines.
This year’s e-Champion awardees in different IT fields include: Ernest Cu, deputy chief executive officer of Globe; Janette Toral, IT consultant; Benedict Fernandez, senior vice president of e-Telecare Global Solutions for business development; and Fermin Taruc, managing director of Gurango Software for software development.
e-Champions in the ESP 2007 awards include Sens. Mar Roxas and Ramon Magsaysay Jr., Bong Borja of PeopleSupport and Bill Torres of Mozcom.
Echoing the sentiments of the other e-champions, Janette Toral said, “The award is an affirmation of the work done where the clear high impact outputs were used as a basis for the recognition.” (PR)
