TACLOBAN CITY — Leyte Gov. Carlos Jericho Petilla declared he would like to change the perception of Leyte province that from an agricultural province into one known for information technology (IT).
The governor stated this during the recently held Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation- Information Technology seminar series at the Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU), which was sponsored by the Overseas Vocational Training Association of Japan and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines, Inc.
In his keynote speech at the opening of the two-day APEC-IT seminar series, Petilla said under his administration, a number of IT-related thrusts have already been enforced firstly in the operation of the provincial government.
He said that the biometrics system was introduced among employees of the provincial capitol and increasing the employees’ work productivity by a significant percent.
Aside from this, Gov. Petilla said the province is continuously in constant talks with possible locators and investors in the IT business to locate at the PEZA-declared facility dubbed as the Information and Communication Technology (ICoT) Park.
He however pointed out the need to push for demand-driven degree courses and trainings among the local colleges and universities to be able to sustain the current need of the job market for qualified workers.
[ Published by: Manila Bulletin Online – www.mb.com.ph ]
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