Oct

6

Cebu, Philippines – The tremendous growth of smartphone usage in the world fuels the production of mobile applications, making it a lucrative opportunity for local developers and start-up technopreneurs in the Philippines.

Software products such as games, musical content and applications, backed up by the great talent of local software engineers, could be a huge export market for the Philippines.

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May

9

The Philippines’ software sector is represented by the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) whose leaders are in Tokyo, Japan, to showcase Filipinos’ capabilities in software development and link partnerships with Japanese companies.

The PSIA takes part in the Software Development Expo (SODEC) from May 9-11 at the Tokyo International Convention Center.

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Apr

23

Information technology (IT) and business giant IBM places a high priority on secondary cities for the company’s geographical expansion.

This year IBM’s market expansion will be focused on secondary cities in the Philippines, like Cebu and Davao. IBM-Philippines intend to focus serving the manufacturing and retail sectors of Cebu and the agricultural plantations of Davao.

IBM makes a careful selection of cities to expand to, making sure factors like having a large educated population with a significant wealth of IT skills, a city’s gross domestic product, attractive industries and enough telecommunications and services, were present so they could introduce their products.

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Apr

18

An Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) conference and training workshop is set on April 23 to 27, 2012 at the University of the Philippines Cebu College, Lahug, Cebu City.



The workshop aims to create and sustain a group of experts in the country for future activities such as communities of practice and other common endeavors.

Dubbed as “IPv6 Unleashed: the 2nd Philippine IPv6 Conference and Training workshop”, the event will gather IPv6 experts, technical users, policy makers and decision makers in the country, as well as international counterparts  to share their work experiences and best practices on the use of Internet Protocol technology.

Expected speakers for the said event are IPv6 experts from Malaysia, Japan, China, and other South East Asian countries.

The event serves as a kick-off activity for the upcoming event “IPv6 Launch 2012,” which will happen on June 6, 2012 to celebrate the 2012 World IPv6 Day.

This joint effort is aided by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), a regional internet registry in Asia and one of ASTI’s training partners, through technology updates and technical knowledge capability building.

This is a project of the Department of Science and Technology – Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), in cooperation with DOST-Regional Office VII, DOST-Information and Communication Technology Office (ICTO), the National Computer Center (NCC), and Central Visayas Information Sharing Network (CVISNET).

Program, workshop outline and on-line registration is available at the ASTI Trainings Website. 

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