Development of Dumaguete as top BPO site pushed

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Association is intent on promoting Dumaguete City as a prime outsourcing destination in the country.

ICT Council Secretary Danah Fortunato cited Dumaguete City as one of the country's top ten outsourcing locations in 2010 with an overall 74 percent score amongst the list of next wave cities graded.

Meeting recently with local stakeholders, the ICT official said business process outsourcing (BPO) companies here hit the 6,000 mark in terms of workforce last year, which is enough to sustain the local economy and social development in the city.

However, ICT stakeholders may be pushing for Dumaguete to be an IT-BPO destination of choice in the country because of its university town status, but Fortunato has doubts about the city’s power supply reliability.

She said her group plans to discuss with officials of power utility firm how best to address power shortage or reduce brown outs so not to interrupt ICT operations in the city.
However, Provincial Governor Roel Degamo, citing in particular the dismantling of aging power plants, said the power supply problem cannot be linked to Noreco alone, but also to the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) and the National Grid Corpora-tion of the Philippines (NGCP). (Manila Bulletin)

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