The purpose of this letter is to respectfully urge your office to reconsider and recall Executive Order No. 47 dated June 23, 2011 which abolished the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) under the office of the President and the creation of an ICT Office under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
CICT had its primal objective that is to develop and promote the Philippines as the globally preferred Information Technology (IT) – Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) investment destination. As a result of this, not only Metro Manila and Metro Cebu are considered primal IT-BPO primal destinations, which can be validated with the 2010 Tholon’s 2010 report on ICT-BPO Preferred Outsourcing Destinations ranking both cities fourth (4th) and ninth (9th) respectively, other cities also like Davao, Sta. Rosa Laguna, Iloilo and Bacolod, known as next wave cities, also made it in the top 100 list.
It has spurred local employment reaching 525,000 seats and has contributed an estimated 9.1 billion US dollars of export revenue to our economy at the year end of 2010. This initiative has resulted also in decongesting Metro Manila, where the spread of the economic growth opportunities can be felt by the different corners of our country, capitalizing the abundance of our skilled workforce.
In comparison, other countries like India, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia, have established cabinet level agencies which report directly to the President and are dedicated to the planning and coordinating efforts on ICT and ICT-enabled services of their respective countries.
Though we believe that the execution of EO 47 is with all noble intention and for the greater glory of the Filipino Community, we would like to guarantee that we will work closely with DOST and ICTO. However, our position remains, that to harness the ICT as a tool for development, economic growth and in streamlining ICT processes within our country, we the members of the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators Foundation, Inc. (PSITE) believe that such can only be attained through the restoration of CICT or the creation of the Department for ICT (DICT).
Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators Foundation, Inc.
UP-Information Technology Training Center (UP-ITTC)
Vidal Tan Hall, Quirino Ave. cor. Velasquez St.
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
http://www.psite.ph
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