Speech On Friday

August 23, 2007

Joma Ronquillo
Esperant System Philippines
Batch 2, UP ITTC, Network Systems Track
 
Greetings distinguished guests…
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And to all of you present today, comrades in the Cyber World!!!

(make a ramos like gesture or  punch right fist in the air, comment on the weather)

On behalf of The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UPITTC) we would like to thank you for inviting us here in this IT conference. And to our Vice-President Harada San for allowing me to take the day’s leave making it possible for me to be here.

I am honored to speak right before you today, to talk about two things that meet the objective of this conference. The first is the imperative of getting adequate and competent training in the field of ICT. And second, on an institution that is now carrying out the frontier initiative in educating young Filipinos in the field of ICT.

Why is there a need for an adequate and competent training?
(Spread two hands. try to look dumbfounded)

The ICT job market is clearly one in which demand cannot be met by supply. The small percentage of highly-skilled ICT professionals coming out of the mainstream schools is simply inadequate to fill up the real ICT jobs, the hard-core ones that range from embedded technologies to applications development and networking.

The global demand has further depleted the supply of well-trained ICT professionals. Some of the best and the brightest in the ICT field opt to train and work overseas, sad to say, many for good.
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