Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology 2007 (Y4IT)

To: All I.T. Professionals, Teachers, Students,
Government Employees & I.T. Enthusiasts
From: Y4IT Organizers
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ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with great pleasure to inform you that the University of the Philippines in Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC), University of the Philippines (UP), UP System IT Foundation (UPSITF), and Student Volunteer Corps. (SVC) will once again hold [...]

Obsolete Professions? Passé Practices?

If you can manage financial wealth through the internet, if you can shop cashless in the malls, if you can buy a stick of Marlboro from manang and use your cellphone to pay her through G-cash, then why fake 10-peso coins and get caught? Or why aspire to become a bank employee for life?
If ERP systems can accurately generate accounting [...]

IT talent, drained and on drought

How I wish I can weed this perennial issue off my mind and emotions, but wherever I go, this topic never fails to haunt me. And it never occurred to me how badly depleted our country’s supply of caliber IT professionals is until this was tackled in the recently concluded Microsoft event held at Fort [...]