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MANILA, Philippines - IBM yesterday announced the appointment of Mariels Almeda Winhoffer as president and country general manager for IBM Philippines, the first Filipina to hold the highest post in the American giant technology firm.
She succeeds James Velasquez who has been appointed Director, Maintenance and Technical Support, IBM Global Technology Services IBM ASEAN. The appointment will take effect immediately.
Born and raised in Manila, Alemda Winhoffer started her career in IBM 26 years ago most recently serving as Client Advocacy Executive for IBM Corp., where she reported directly to the chairman and provided support for global client engagements.
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has the inherent attractiveness and ability to seize upcoming business opportunities as it steps up as the next favored destination in ASEAN.
According to Synovate’s business consulting head for the Philippines, and Singapore group director, Anand Kumar, the Philippines needs to immediately seize this opportunity.
The Philippine government, he said, must come up with more incentives for setting up manufacturing hubs. It must also address its steep electricity rates to lure more foreign direct investment (FDI).
BALER, Aurora, Philippines – Senator Edgardo J. Angara is pushing for a holistic and science-based approach to disaster management as he underscored the importance of crafting a comprehensive, information-driven plan which the Philippines should implement to deal with natural disasters brought about by climate change.
“The recent devastation in Northern Mindanao should only underline the necessity of such a project,” he said.He stressed developing a high overall level of preparedness against disaster requires the cooperation of all government agencies. Partnerships with local governments must be developed, and training and planning for emergency response provided.
Believing that a strong science education in this country can help propel the growth of its economy, the Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc. (Bafi) has recently unveiled the country’s first world-class science museum.
Dubbed as The Mind Museum, this ambitious project is targeted to be at par with other world-class museums, from its sleek futuristic building design down to the numerous interactive exhibits that will be made available to the public by summer of 2012.
Sitting on a 12,500-square-meter prime lot of the JY Campos Park on 3rd Avenue in Bonifacio Global City, the P1-billion project was conceived as early as 2006 by Bafi, the group in charge of Bonifacio Global City’s public art program.
MANILA, Philippines - Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp. (SEPCO), software leader Sybase and digital media company PressSmart rolled out the implementation of the “e-textbook/Personal Learning Device (PEARL) project” at the La Salle Greenhills (LSGH) yesterday.
The Gearing Up Internet Literacy and Access for Students (GILAS) was turned over by the private sector to the Department of Education (DepEd) with a milestone of connecting 3,306 public high schools around the country. Representatives from the 24 member organizations of the GILAS consortium, led by steering committee co-chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, turned over the program’s final accomplishment report to DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro at Dusit Thani in Makati City.
GILAS is a multi-sectoral initiative composed mainly of corporations and concerned non-profit institutions, including the Brain Gain Network, realizing the need to invest in bridging the digital divide among the nation's public high school students. After more than six years of collaborative effort, GILAS has provided computer laboratories with Internet access to about 4.4 million students, and trained more than 13,500 teachers in Internet-assisted instruction, and 542 school heads and their assistants on ICT leadership. Fifty cities and 16 provinces now have full Internet connectivity.
As far as emerging markets go, the Philippines is seldom the choice investment destination, but one analyst says the Southeast Asian nation could well become the “dark horse” of the region, thanks to its favorable demographics and sound economic fundamentals.
The Philippine’s “very robust and young population" presents a ready pool of talent, says Mark Matthews, Head of Research Asia at Bank Julius Baer. He expects the country’s population of 93 million, around half of whom are below 20 years old, to more than double to 190 million by 2040.
And with a debt-to-GDP ratio among the lowest in Asia at under 50 percent, the Philippines is one of the most under-geared countries in the world, which makes it a less risky bet for investors. "That means it will no longer be 'another domino' in times of crisis," the Bank Julius Baer noted.
A survey conducted by software giant Microsoft has found that Filipino families have more than 10 gadgets, the highest among the countries covered by the poll which included China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The survey, titled “Families and Technology 2011”, polled more than 3,700 people in an attempt to capture the ways in which families incorporate technology into their day-to-day cyber relationships.
A Filipina official of one of the leading companies in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry was named Global Filipino Executive of the Year at the Asia CEO Awards. Marife Zamora is a senior vice president at Convergys and the managing director of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa for the company’s Customer Management (CM) business. She holds the distinction of being one of the only Filipino executives in the business process outsourcing industry whose responsibility extends beyond Asia.
The Asia CEO Awards recognizes extraordinary leaders who have demonstrated outstanding achievement for their organizations and contributions to others.
