Monday, July 02, 2007 Sara, Avila support 1st Davao cyber expo By Ben O. Tesiorna
DAVAO City vice Mayor Sara Duterte and City Councilor Leonardo Avila expressed support for the first ever cyber expo to be held in Davao City.
Duterte will lead the cutting of the ribbon on July 4 at the Ground Floor Activity Center of the NCCC Mall in Matina. Avila will be assisting Duterte in the event.
Leonardo Paquito Avila VI, son of Councilor Avila and president of E-Squared Events Organizing, will be the one to declare the formal opening of the 1st Davao Cyber Expo.
Organizers said the five components of the first-ever cyber exposition in the country are cyber games, creative edge, LAN party extreme, forum and exhibits.
The cyber games component is a fun event where teams from all over Southern Mindanao are invited to compete with each other.
"Each Internet cafe in the region will represent their own team, this is actually the main event where the games were patterned after Olympic styles," said the young Avila.
The creative edge is another competitive event where digital creativity is given emphasis.
The event is aimed at recognizing the city's finest graphics designers and animators, as well as inspiring others to pursue a career in this field.
"Here in Davao City, wala pang school na nagtuturo ng video activity and animation. Through this event, maybe we can come up with the realization that there is a need to support the establishment of animation schools," Avila said.
The LAN party extreme, on the other hand, is a friendly gathering of local gaming and PC enthusiasts.
The event will host a free for all LAN gaming, as well as knowledge sharing among fellow games and PC enthusiasts.
Avila said participants of the LAN party will bring their own computers where these computers are usually highly modified, optimized, and over-clocked.
This gives the regular computer user chances to see what can be done to a computer and how to improve its look and performance.
This event will also host a small computer hardware-related contest such as speed building.
Learning sessions from Davao City's leading graphics designers will also be made available during the Davao Cyber Expo 2007 through a forum.
The event aims to educate and inspire young minds to get into the information technology (IT) industry via creative skills such as graphic designs and digital animations.
"We will be putting cyber culture to higher level that's why we came up with this event," Avila said.
Another component of the exposition is the exhibit that will gather the latest technologies and gadgets in the computer industry.
This event will showcase the products and services of exhibitors, sponsors, and supporters of the first Davao Cyber Expo 2007.
"All these we put in one big event. We want to make Davao City as the leading cyber city that will lead to the development of the cyber entertainment culture," Avila said.
