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CEBU will be President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's next stop today for her Cyber Corridor tour which was launched in her home province in Pampanga last Monday.
President Arroyo will visit the Asiatown IT Park in barangay Lahug this afternoon.
?This is a continuing Cyber Corridor tour of the President, which showcases her ICT (information communication technology) milestone agenda,? said Saul Pa-a, Media Accreditation and Relations Office (MARO) Events project manager, at yesterday?s briefing.
He said her agenda was discussed during her previous SONA (State of the Nation Address), which aims to generate investment, mostly generate employment and improve the lives of people.
?This is the realization (of that agenda),? he added.
President Macapagal-Arroyo will visit the Asiatown IT Park, a 23-hectare property which was formerly the Lahug Airport that has been transformed as the first IT Park accredited by the Philippine Economic Zome Authority in the Visayas and Mindanao.
She will be received at the site by Cebu Properties Ventures and Development Corp. president Francis Monera, Cebu Educational Development for Information Technology or CEDF-IT executive director Bonifacio Belen, Asiatown IT Park Corp. Communications head lawyer Jeanette Japson and 44 leading IT key industry players, locators and business process outsourcing (BPO) investors.
The President will be toured around the IT Park and then to the facilities of Qualfon Quality Contact Services, the latest addition in the area, which has about 2,100 employees.
?There will be a powerpoint presentation by Belen. Then the President will present her IT agenda on how far have we gone in IT,? he added.
The corridor comprises the ICT ?centers of excellence? in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, and ?next-wave cities?' Metro Laguna, Metro Cavite, Iloilo, Davao, Bacolod, Metro Pampanga, Metro Bulacan, Central Bulacan, Cagayan de Oro and Lipa.
It is home to 75,000 call centers and BPO companies that are served by digital networks offered by major telecommunications firms, according to Malacañang. Editorial Assistant Ma Bernadette A. Parco with Inquirer report
