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Microsoft Admires Filipino Talents
« on: October 01, 2012, 12:39:10 PM »
by pna

Filipinos are very talented when it comes to information technology (IT) that they are accomplishing things for multi-national companies without knowing it, a Microsoft executive said.

Alvin Gendrano, director of Microsoft Philippines’ developer and platform group and a board director of the Philippine Software Industry Association, noted that social gaming service Zynga has outsourced some of its development to the Philippines.

“That would give you a sense of what our talent here does. There is a demand for Filipino development,” he said.

Gendrano said software development in the country currently is services-based, where services are exported to other countries.

He hopes that by encouraging the young talents, they will be inspired to shift from providing software services to actually creating software products.

”It is in software products where there is the most potential for growth and profitability,” he said, adding that services required more people to run it, whereas a good product can be sold many times over.

He cited as an example a Manila-based team of three that developed a web-based point-of-sale system and charged a minimum fee for its use.

Gendrano said about 30,000 small and medium enterprises use their system while they currently have just a few employees the founder, someone to answer calls and part time marketing staff.

Exist Software chief executive officer Jerry Rapes said Filipinos can be known as creator of technology rather than just being among the top users of social media.

He lamented that students these days are educated to become employees and are “blinded” by the vision into joining big companies.

He said there is nothing wrong with this, but hopes that students will also be taught to envision the possibility of creating something on their own.

Genrado hopes that the industry can help take away the bias toward employment and also see potential in creating their own products.

Rapes said startup companies need to be supported and to shown what could happen if they keep at it.

Both also cited the need for the industry and the academe to come together and collaborate.

Rapes said with both sectors now talking through the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedfit), it is a good start. “It’s difficult to change a curriculum overnight.”

He said is easier done here than in Manila because of the compact nature of Cebu.

Gendrano also noted that out of some 50,000 IT graduates each year, only between eight and 10 percent are employable according to industry standards.

“They are not taught the right things. Educational institutions need to impart the skills needed by the industry,” he said.

He worries that many students take up IT course because it is popular these days but some programs offer no substance” and they will have wasted four years and their parents’ money.

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