Globe Business backs ICT-empowered Cebu

MANILA, Philippines -Globe Business supported the recently concluded Cebu ICT 2009 which this year carried the theme “Cebu e-Merging Island of Innovation” held at the Cebu International Convention Center.

The two-day conference and exhibit gathered together the major stakeholders and key players in the information and communications technology arena to celebrate Cebu’s achievement of ranking first among 50 top emerging outsourcing cities in 2008. Cebu continues to emerge as an ICT hub and a preferred destination for offshoring and outsourcing.

The Cebu ICT 2009 bears witness to how ICT has grown by leaps and bounds and is seen to help the country’s economy in the midst of these challenging times.

In his talk “The Next Generation Infra: Solutions that Fit”, Globe Business Head Gil B. Genio said Cebu has indeed become an emerging center of innovation with ICT propelling its growth to become a global player and a vibrant center for O&O.

“The Cebu business community’s longstanding and decidedly long-term focus on ICT has underlined the importance of ICT as an enabling tool and an empowering force to progress,” he said. “And with the establishment of the ICT component of the Cebu Business Month, the lockstep relationship between the progress of Cebu and the development of ICT has been defined.”

Genio said Filipino businessmen today have the power to become truly global players even if they stay right where they are in the country. Citing Cebu’s experience wherein ICT has led it to become a technologically-enabled business hub, ICT breaks all boundaries and has removed geographical centers for business.

By making communication technology and connectivity more accessible, growth and progress are no longer centered on one city or province. This is especially true with the coming of the O&O industry.

Globe Business does its part in contributing to the continuous growth of Cebu’s O&O field by persistently upgrading itself and providing the best solutions there are in the market. Whether a business requires reliable connectivity, mobility, IT integration, cost efficiency and security solutions to address whatever they need and demand, Globe Business delivers them the solutions that fit.

Genio named some of Globe Business’ capabilities and offerings for Cebu businesses especially the stakeholders in Cebu’s very progressive O&O sector. Globe Business has installed IP Converge Optical Network (ICON), its multi-service IP MPLS network which is the first and only pure IP MPLS network in the country.