President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is confident that decent and high-paying jobs will be available to Filipinos. The President made the assessment after the chairmen and executive officers of the top 1,000 corporations of the world recognized the strong talent and capability of her administration to lead the economic progress of the Philippines during her visit in Davos, Switzerland where she attended the annual World Economic Forum. The Chief Executive said, “the government will be able to realize its dream of providing more decent and high-paying jobs to the Filipino people now that the international businessmen have recognized the capability of the Philippines to become a developed country in the near future.”
In the local scene, Cebu software developers and programmer companies are starting to develop their niche in the software industry as they are now penetrating the nationwide market. Cebu has been known to have a pool of good software programmers that encourage international companies like Lexmark, NEC Software, EPSON among others to establish their research and development facilities here.
Mike Jurado, president of Cebu Software Development Industry Association Inc. said, “Cebu now has started to attract multi-national software development companies. They are now servicing offshore projects from companies abroad like Japan.”
Jurado added that Cebu has a lot of potential and good programmers and developers that can compete with the international players but most of them have been hired already by giant software companies here and abroad.
Jurado, who is also the president of Primary Software Development Corp., one of the pioneering locally-owned software companies in Cebu said that there are close to about a hundred software development companies in Cebu, majority of them are home-based operations servicing companies abroad.
The Cebu software developers and programmers are calling on the government for assistance and incentives, in order to encourage IT programmers to develop programs that will be proudly called “Philippine–made.”
Meanwhile, in a round table discussion with the President recently, DTI Secretary Peter Favila reported that the international community, especially the top businessmen, acknowledged the growing economy of the country under the Arroyo administration. Favila revealed that a leading business process outsourcing company in the world, Kenneth Tachman, CEO of Teletech announced his intention to expand their business in the Philippines.
It plans to establish five new call centers in Camarines Sur in Bicol, Valencia town and Dumaguete City in Oriental Negros and in Davao with the capacity of 5,000 seats each. Favila added that Prakash Hinduja, who owns big businesses in India and is one of the top 1,000 corporations in the world, also expressed his strong intention to expand his call center operations and establish a manufacturing company in the country (PIA)
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