Almost exactly a month of the new administration and with much speculations in recent days regarding the fate of the government’s Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), a new Chairman is named in the person of Ivan Uy, a lawyer and former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Supreme Court. The news was confirmed to I-Café Pilipinas by Commissioner Monchito Ibrahim who stood as the commission’s caretaker on hold-over capacity until the recent appointment. Atty. Ivan john E. Uy, prior to his appointment, served as the CIO of the country’s High Court and pioneered the automation of various technology systems across the entire judiciary. He has worked closely with various Chief Justices in crafting and planning for the computerization of processes in Philippine Judiciary.
The position of CICT Chairman enjoyed a cabinet level recognition by the previous administration but the commission is generally believed to be standing on unstable ground because CICT was merely a creation of Executive Order No. 269 in 2004 by former [Read More . . .]
Microsoft Philippines continues its program offering affordable Windows 7 operating system and Office 2010 productivity software to i-café owners whose shops still use pirated software. The promo, now on its second wave, allows qualified i-cafés to avail of Windows 7 Professional Edition for only PhP3,299.00 per license while MS Office 2010 license can be bought for PhP1,999.00 each. The new MS campaign was timed with the school opening and dubbed “iCafe Back2School UPGRADE“. Some details about the program are contained in our Understanding The Microsoft i-Cafe Program article.
In order to spread the information about the second wave of the program, Microsoft Philippines through its authorized reseller, Angelworx IT Solution, and I-Café Pilipinas is organizing an event for i-café owners in Cavite province and nearby areas. Interested i-café owners are invited to join the event scheduled as follows: [Read More . . .]
I-Café Pilipinas, as the national network of internet café owners, operators and associations in the Philippines, strives to empower the stakeholders in the conduct of their business and the formation of Pilipinas I-Café Marketing Cooperative is one initiative that the organization will launch on July 28, 2010 from 9 am to 6 pm at the Seminar Room A and B of the Philippine Trade Training Center, CCP Complex, Buendia Ave Corner Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. The theme of the launching will be “Walk the Talk: Putting Advocacies to Work in Providing ICT Opportunities at the Community Level”
The Pilipinas I-Cafe Marketing Cooperative is the result of advocacy and planning work by the people behind I-Cafe Pilipinas in its quest to bring about substantial changes in the internet cafe industry in the country. The organization believes that a vital component of empowerment of its stakeholders would be providing the means in which they would have direct access to vital ICT products, [Read More . . .]
The 2010 Yahoo-Nielsen Net Index showed that seventy-six (76%) of Filipinos going online do “Search”. The same survey showed that majority of those who uses the search engines to find what they need are students based on the ages of respondents. [Read More . . .]
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