IRR readied for broad-based tech projects
By MELODY AGUIBA
August 22, 2009, 3:31pm
A set of implementing rules and regulation (IRR) is being fast-tracked by government for a cooperation with the Silicon Valley-based Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) which can bring in multi-million dollar investments in broad-based technology innovation.
The IRR follows a memorandum of agreement (MoA) signed by several agencies of the government with STAC during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s visit a few weeks ago to the United States.
“We should come up with the IRR soon. It should be finalized at the soonest time possible so we can start implementing it within the year,” Dr. Jaime C. Montoya, Philippine Council on Health Research and Development (PCHRD) executive director and member of the Presidential Coordinating Committee on R&D, told reporters at a local BioCamp.
The MoA with STAC has seven objectives which includes commercializing research; promoting Philippines self-sufficiency and economic growth; validating market opportunity; providing health access and risk capital (financing and marketing); providing investment banking expertise or access to relevant capital market; and promoting the Philippines as investment hub for R&D.
Montoya said the R&D networking-collaboration program is being supported by many STAC-affiliated institutions and professionals and will have all-encompassing applications in different industries.
“That’s across industries microelectronics, life sciences, IT (information technology),” he said.
Among the MoA participants on the part of the government are the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Trade and Industry, and Department of Science and Technology.
From an original concept of collaboration between the Philippines and Silicon Valley-based Filipino technocrats brought up in 1988 by the Department of Foreign Affairs through then Undersecretary Federico Macaranas, the STAC had its first organizational meeting in the San Francisco Bay area in 1990.
http://mb.com.ph/node/217101/irr-readied-broadba
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Filipino mobile software developer sets up RP office
Wrote about Arnel Guiang who plans to set up a PHilippine office for his mobile software development. Here is the link to the Manila Bulletin story,
www.mb.com.ph/articles/205521/californiabased-filipino-mobile-software-provider-plans-rp-office, but I wonder why my company's website is always down. Here's the story too.
California-based Filipino mobile software provider to set up RP office
melody m. aguiba/5-28-09
A Califoria-based Filipino-American mobile applications provider is setting up a Philippine office to tap globally-competitive talents for mobile software development that will have a huge market in light of expansive internet presence on cellular phones by 2015.
Guiang Corp. is putting up a local office for its development of mTools which are mobile programs with a wide consumer application.
"I've had contractors from the US before, but I want to follow up (partnerships) here (with companies) like those with the Ayala Technohub," said Guiang Corp.Chief Executive Officer Arnel Guiang in an interview at Ayala Foundation Innovation Forum.
The mTools are targeted by Guiang to be suited for large institutional markets like original electronic manufacturers (OEMs), telecommunications companies like Globe or Smart, or those engaged in mobile manufacturing or mobile phone management.
The need to develop more software for mobile applications is becoming more pertinent as practically all mobile phones would have internet access by 2015 as foreseen by experts.
Guiang said mobile software will have a big market as there are now 250 million subscribers in the United States alone.
"The market is huge. The market in the world is everybody that has a cellphone," he said.
Guiang has established a leadership in start-up operations and is also presently working with Mesh.com which is a Microsoft operation. This is particularly on making available a system for automatic updating of files between mobile and desktop PC systems.
The company foresees a large market for the software for leaders of mobile internet phone, specifically iPhones and Blackberry as the two alone take up 35 to 40 percent of the market.
The specific tools of Guiang are mHome used for uploaing files, contacts, appointments, and tasks online; mShare usd for transfering files from one mobile phone to another; mSync for backing up files and accessing mobile file online throughweb interface between mobile and desktop computers; global SMS Blast for sending text message for free; VingTalkfor converging messages for voice and text; and mFax, a mobile fax.
Guiang has also been partnering with a local venture capitalist, ICCP Ventures, and and many Silicon Valley and Southern California based venture capital groups.
It intends to employ initially five to 10 software developers that can easily launch a product three months from inception. This is for the development of Android, Java,Windows, Symbian, and PHP applications.
www.mb.com.ph/articles/205521/californiabased-filipino-mobile-software-provider-plans-rp-office, but I wonder why my company's website is always down. Here's the story too.
California-based Filipino mobile software provider to set up RP office
melody m. aguiba/5-28-09
A Califoria-based Filipino-American mobile applications provider is setting up a Philippine office to tap globally-competitive talents for mobile software development that will have a huge market in light of expansive internet presence on cellular phones by 2015.
Guiang Corp. is putting up a local office for its development of mTools which are mobile programs with a wide consumer application.
"I've had contractors from the US before, but I want to follow up (partnerships) here (with companies) like those with the Ayala Technohub," said Guiang Corp.Chief Executive Officer Arnel Guiang in an interview at Ayala Foundation Innovation Forum.
The mTools are targeted by Guiang to be suited for large institutional markets like original electronic manufacturers (OEMs), telecommunications companies like Globe or Smart, or those engaged in mobile manufacturing or mobile phone management.
The need to develop more software for mobile applications is becoming more pertinent as practically all mobile phones would have internet access by 2015 as foreseen by experts.
Guiang said mobile software will have a big market as there are now 250 million subscribers in the United States alone.
"The market is huge. The market in the world is everybody that has a cellphone," he said.
Guiang has established a leadership in start-up operations and is also presently working with Mesh.com which is a Microsoft operation. This is particularly on making available a system for automatic updating of files between mobile and desktop PC systems.
The company foresees a large market for the software for leaders of mobile internet phone, specifically iPhones and Blackberry as the two alone take up 35 to 40 percent of the market.
The specific tools of Guiang are mHome used for uploaing files, contacts, appointments, and tasks online; mShare usd for transfering files from one mobile phone to another; mSync for backing up files and accessing mobile file online throughweb interface between mobile and desktop computers; global SMS Blast for sending text message for free; VingTalkfor converging messages for voice and text; and mFax, a mobile fax.
Guiang has also been partnering with a local venture capitalist, ICCP Ventures, and and many Silicon Valley and Southern California based venture capital groups.
It intends to employ initially five to 10 software developers that can easily launch a product three months from inception. This is for the development of Android, Java,Windows, Symbian, and PHP applications.
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