BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Philippines

"Kung noong nakaraan, lumakas ang electronics, today we are creating
wealth by developing the BPO and tourism sectors as additional engines
of growth. Electronics and other manufactured exports rise and fall in
accordance with the state of the world economy. But BPO remains
resilient. With earnings of $6 billion and employment of 600,000, the
BPO phenomenon speaks eloquently of our competitiveness and
productivity. Let us have a Department of ICT…."


Business Process Outsourcing is one of the good aide for economic crises,
more jobs for Filipino peaple were awaiting,that means lesser jobless filipinos.
The Common BPO's were call centers.Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is looking for a 40% growth in the country’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry for 2008.

Speaking at the e-Services Global Sourcing Conference and Exhibition, Arroyo said while the Philippines currently employ 300,000 people in the BPO and contact center industry, she wants these increased by at least 40% to meet the growing demand worldwide. She said the Philippines at present is only second to India in terms of supplying the workforce in the BPO industry, but it has already been recognized as the “premiere global destination for these types of IT enabled services”.



Cyber Corridor


"The Cyber Corridor, which aims to create an information and technology-based knowledge economy through facilities that enhance interconnectivity and research and development initiatives, traverses all four geographic super regions from Baguio to Cebu to Davao"

Cyber Corridor was said to be the backbone of the Bpo Industry in the Philippines. The Cyber Corridor is an information and communication technology (ICT) channel running the length of the Philippines that interconnects BPO services centers all over the country to efficiently bring together cyberservices providers and BPO locators. The project’s development theme is ICT and knowledge economy with cyberservices encompassing call center, back office operations, medical and legal transcription, online marketing, software development, e-learning, e-entertainment, gaming, engineering design and animation. A $10 billion digital network and high-bandwidth fiber backbone supports the infrastructure which is overseen by the appointed Chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), also known as the “development champion.”

The goal is to employ one million workers and generate $13 billion dollars in annual revenues by 2010. With Metro Manila as the center of the Philippine BPO industry, the Cyber Corridor includes twenty-five “Next Wave Cities.” These cities are tagged as such because they’re considered viable locations for BPO operations. Clark Freeport Zone and Subic Bay Freeport Zone in the north, Cebu City and Bacolod City in the Central Philippines, and Davao City and Cagayan de Oro City in the south are some of the BPO locations on the list.


TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

"Sa telecommunications naman, inatasan ko ang Telecommunications
Commission na kumilos na tungkol sa mga sumbong na dropped calls at mga
nawawalang load sa cellphone. We need to amend the Commonwealth-era
Public Service Law. And we need to do it now…."

The country ranks as one of the top users of telecommunication devices such as cellular phones, but the telecommunications commision were bombarded with complains of missing loads and unjust drop calls.
almost everyone has their own cellular phone, it would be great if that would be fixed.