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MANILA - The Philippines ranks fourth worldwide in competence and skills for the
information and communication technology (ICT) sector, a survey by a US-based
research firm, the Meta Group, shows. India tops the survey, followed by Israel
and Iceland.
The survey said the Philippines beat developed countries such as the United
States, Canada, France and Australia in producing ICT professionals and workers.
According to the survey, Filipino ICT professionals are competent and skillful,
adept with mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers and equipped with the
technical and business skills for ICT projects. Filipino ICT workers are also
skilled in such e-enabling services as business outsourcing and human resource,
customer interaction, finance and accounting ad website services.
Systems Technology Institute (STI), the Philippines' leading
information-technology school, concluded that the country can succeed in its bid
to become the ICT hub in the Asian region despite stumbling blocks such as
limited infrastructure for convergence and a legal and administrative framework
unable to ensure Internet security and privacy.
"There are problems but these are not big enough to stop the country from
achieving the status of becoming the region's e-services hub," an STI statement
said, noting that the Philippines enjoys a highly literate and ICT-capable
workforce and is the host of several multinational companies' regional
operations.
(Asia Pulse/PNA)
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