The President, who completed a one-day, four-city tour Wednesday with a visit to the Concentrix call center facility inside the Damosa IT Park here in the city, said that while much remains to be done in the cyber industry sector, she will be turning over in June to a new government “a new Philippines that is ready for the challenges of the first world.”

Earlier in the day, the President visited Iloilo, Bacolod and Cebu.

She said the strategic initiatives in information and communications technology (ICT) she launched at the start of her tenure in 2001 have turned the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in the country into a $7.3 billion industry as of last year, enough to challenge, she said, the supremacy of India’s $9 billion-a-year call center sector.

“From scratch with only 2,000 workers before I became President, we have created a global powerhouse: the Philippine BPO industry,” said the President as she spoke before the officers of the ICT Davao Inc., the umbrella group for the more than 220 firms engaged in ICT-related business in the region. (PIA- Pagadian City)

Last update: 08-02-2010 06:36