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See you at e-Business Week 2005 and 4th Mindanao ICT Congress in General Santos City

General Santos City shall host the biggest gathering of Information & Communications Technology stakeholders in Mindanao come October this year. This is for the conduct of the 4th Mindanao ICT Congress scheduled on October 27 – 28, which will be one of the highlights of the 2nd e-Business Week slated on October 24 – 29, 2005.

General Santos City is one of the locations in the country proclaimed as an I.T. hub by the government. This is in addition to current locations such as Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Pangasinan, Camarines Sur, Leyte, Baguio City, Iloilo City, Cagayan de Oro City, Zamboanga City, and Davao City.

The aim of the 4th MICT Congress' is to make Mindanao in particular and the Philippines in general, become the "Knowledge Center in the Asia-Pacific" by 2010. Through the national information infrastructure government, businesses, libraries and homemakers will have to become Internet literate for them to carry out the demands in the workplace.

The Plenary Sessions will focus on e-enabling Mindanao for digital opportunities; BIMP-EAGA: potentials for ICT collaboration in Mindanao; developing Mindanao's ICT human resources; opportunities and challenges in the ICT outsourcing services; e-governance solutions that work; next generation technologies and their impact; and presentation on the 4th MICT Congress Output/Resolutions.

Gensan City government partnered with the Mindanao Business Council, Gensan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and DTI 12. Globe Telecom and Innove are the major corporate sponsors.

Trade  & Industry 12 Director Ibrahim K. Guiamadel said that all the activities during the e-Business Week are intended to keep the public abreast on the latest in ICT, train the local human resources to meet the basic requirements and qualify for jobs in the ICT field, generate employment opportunities for graduates, among others. These activities in the city shall further strengthen General Santos City’s claim as a competitive IT hub in the country.

The e-Business Week is organized by the Department of Trade and Industry 12 and the ICT Solutions Association of Region 12 (ISA12) in cooperation with other line agencies and the local government of General Santos City.

Among the activities are:

ICTex  (October 24-29 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City) , a display of an array of equipment and gadgets in ICT

Government-on-Line, (October 24-29 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City),  where government agencies whose services are on-line shall be gathered to provide their services to the public. Included here are NEDA, DLR, NSO, DTI, GSIS, TESDA, BIR, NFA.

Job Fiesta, (October 24-27 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City), Head hunters from the ICT world shall come to screen entrants for backroom operations, content development, animation, medical transcription and other core IT services. They will be recruiting workers from the fields of Information Technology, engineering, communications, business, natural sciences. (Please read related news.)

MT: Transcribing Your Way to the US, (October 26 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City), a forum that would help prepare those with background in medical courses to a work in a medical transcription firm, now a considered a lucrative job.

Academe Trainers’ Training (October 24-25 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City), training for mentors who are interested include in their course offerings Advanced English Communication preparing graduates for Contact (Call) Center Agents.

TechTalks (October 25-29 @  Mezanine Floor, Port Café, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City), a series of short courses on the use and application of various soft ware in engineering and design, animation,  website services, network consulting and management, desktop publishing,. This is open to anyone in whatever fields they are in but are interested to improve their skills in the use of computers.

E-Competition (October 24-29 @ Atrium, Gaisano Mall, Gen. Santos City), an ICT-related or electronic-generated competition showcasing the skills and abilities of the contestants while selling their services to interested companies. Participants can join in categories such as SMS Content Craze (Content-Concept Development Competition); Animazing Talent (Animation Competition); Original Character Design Competition; Digital Graphic Design Competition; Digital Fine Art Competition; Web Design Competition; and Global Minds (ICT Quiz Bowl: Inter Mindanao Universities-Colleges).

Get the full details by visiting the website at http://www.sme12.ph

See you in General Santos City!

System Specialist needed

Hello everyone. One of our club members has this opening.

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Avanza is one of the few loyalty and relationship marketing agencies that have successfully established ways to engage customers and means to maximize the profitability of customers through highly advanced technology systems and data analytics tool.  Avanza has a proven track record of developing and implementing relationship programs for consumers, trade and employees for multinational companies for 12 years now.

To expand its business, the company is now seeking for individuals who can provide the IT expertise for program development, database management and performance tracking.

The Position:  System Specialist

The Responsibilities:
• Performs product research and development in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
• Design and develop application system as per user specifications and systems design requirements.
• Act as application system support for the end-users.
• Responsible for the systems operation.
• Create and maintain system documentation.

The Experience Avanza is Looking For:
• Graduate of B.S. Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Systems Analyst and Computer Programmer.
• Required skill(s) : Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, ASP.Net, Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000, Crystal Reports.
• Must have experience with VB.Net and ASP.Net (Windows application, Windows service, Web application, Web service).
• Must have at least 1 year experience with MS SQL Server v7/2000 database design, administration, SQL programming (DTS, stored procedures, triggers, etc.).
• Preferably with PowerBuilder experience.
• Must possess good communication skills.
• Must be proactive and be able to work with minimum supervision.

Please email your resumes to [email protected] or fax to 02-8123030 and address to the HRD Manager, Avanza, Inc.

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Discussion Group and Google Talk

Hello folks. We just revived the Infotech Philippines discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/ph-infotech. I hope you can join and interact with us on the latest in Infotech developments in and out of the country. We are also taking this opportunity to test the Google Groups service and hope it will work out well.

On the other hand, I got an invite to try Google Talk but I can't seem to connect to it. The server just won't authenticate me. Now I have to ask PLDT WeRoam if it blocks sites/service like Google Talk and Chikka. Will let you know.

Welcome Mike Abundo!

Hello everyone. I like to take this opportunity to welcome our newest contributor in Infotech Philippines and he is DigitalFilipino.com Club member Mike Abundo. We look forward to his write-ups and coverage.

Welcome Mike!

ACPI's New Officers for 2005-2007

The Animation Council of the Philippines just elected its new set of officers for 2005 to 2007. They are:

President             - Marlyn Montano (Holy Cow! Animation Studio)
Vice President     - Grace Dimaranan (Top Peg Creative & Animation Studio)
Secretary            - Rom Verdan (Cadweb Business Solutions)
Treasurer            - Nestor Palabrica (TOEI Animation)
Member/Head of Education Committee - Ludet Gopalan (Navel Productions)
Member/Head of PR/Media Com - Michelle Casio (Mapua IT Center)
Member/Head of Membership Com - Richard Padilla (Challenge Systems)

Congratulations and more power to ACPI!

Also, congratulations as well to DigitalFilipino.com Club Member Rom Verdan for being one of the board of directors of ACPI. Kudos to you Rom!

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