Information and Communication Technology May Provide Hundreds of Jobs

It was an unprecendented move by major political players in Bohol who almost simultaneously announced full support of investments in information and communications technology. Tagbilaran City Mayor Dan Lim, Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado and 1st Congressional District Representative Edgar Chatto announced in various news media their respective ideas on ICT and how to provide jobs to Boholanos. They all are pushing for call centers and medical transcription operations in Bohol, with possibilities of putting up a PEZA and tax incentives to investors.

Bohol may be the next ICT hub in the Philippines and interested investors would be happy to know that the province currently have call center grade Internet connection provided by the partnership between AUZA.NET and Raynetworks, Inc.. Informatics-Bohol also offers call center operator courses which gives the students the necessary skills and confidence. With IT infrastructure and training system already in place, it is now really a matter of locating call center and medical transcription operations in Bohol.