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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
3rd Mindanao ICT Congress slated in October
MINDANAO'S information and communication technology (ICT) industry stakeholders will converge in the city for the Mindanao Summit on Information Society (3rd Mindanao ICT Congress) on October 8-9 at the Garden Orchid Hotel.
This to bolster efforts to accelerate an ICT-based economy in the island-region.
Anchored on the theme eMindaNOW! (Mindanao: Networked, Online, Worldwide), the ICT congress will be held in support of the national government's commitment to the 2003 World Summit on Information Society's (WSIS) Declaration of Principles to "eliminate the digital divide and to promote an ICT development-oriented information society."
The Philippines was among the 170 signatory countries in the summit, which vowed to harness the potentials of ICT for socio-economic growth.
Mindanao Business Council (MBC) Chair Antonio Santos said that the continuing effort to conduct the MICT Congress is in line with the private sector's initiative to pump prime Mindanao's economy through connectivity.
We want stakeholders in the business and government sectors to seriously look at ICT as an enabler and facilitator," he said during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between MBC and Regional IT and E-Commerce Committee IX (RITECC-IX) which identified the two organizations as the lead associations of the congress.
Santos said that Mindanao's pressing problem on connectivity, including its bid to become an ICT investment hub will be up for discussion at the congress.
He added that ICT players will also look at opportunities for collaboration on ICT development among ICT players within the BIMP-EAGA and the implementation of WSIS' plan of action in Mindanao.
(September 14, 2004 issue)
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