Jocelle Batapa Sigue

July 4, 2018

Blockchain to Boost Bacolod’s BPO Services

Industry practitioners sees blockchain as a new technology that will enhance Bacolod City’s current lead as as a center for excellence in information technology and business process management amidst the threats of new disruptive technologies. Randy Knutson, head of DynaQuest Technology Services, a Manila-based firm says “blockchain technology will help the Philippine BPO industry migrate […]
July 4, 2018

Bacolod Aims To Be GameDev Hub

Information and communications technology (ICT) stakeholders in Bacolod aims to position the city as a hub for the game development industry in the Philippines. In 2013, the Bacolod – Negros Occidental Federation for ICT (BNEFIT) officially launched the advocacy to step up in three areas, namely healthcare information management (HIM), software development and creative processes, […]
July 4, 2018

BILIRAN CREATES ICT COUNCIL

Officers of the Provincial Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Council of Biliran took their oath office last May 18, 2018 for the promotion, application and improvement of ICT for community development in the province. Leading the oath is Biliran Vice Governor Eriberto Tubis, Jr. in the Municipality of Naval in Biliran and witnessed by Department […]
July 4, 2018

Stronger ICT Councils for A Smarter Philippines (3rd NICP Summit)

SPEECH OF ATTY. JOCELLE BATAPA-SIGUE as CHAIR, NATIONAL ICT CONFEDERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (NICP) During the Opening of the 3rd NICP Summit in Bacolod on November 25, 2010 To use the term “leaders” to describe the composition of our congregation today is an understatement. Most of those outside of this room would probably be content, […]
July 4, 2018

Negros First CyberCentre Briefing Document Delivered On April 30, 2015

Your Excellency – President Benigno S. Aquino III, Secretary Gregory Domingo, Governor Alfredo Maranon, Jr. Ladies and gentlemen – Good Morning. The Negros First CyberCenter is the first information technology multi-complex stand-alone building in Western Visayas with the Province of Negros Occidental as registered owner and developer. It is 25th special economic zone for information […]
July 4, 2018

Sigue Shares ICT Council Model to Guatemalan Cities

The steady creation of huge employment enabled by information and communications technology (ICT) in cities outside of Metro Manila has caught international attention recently as Philippine industry leaders where invited to speak in Guatemala. Co – founder and former president of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines Jocelle Batapa-Sigue was invited as main speaker […]
July 4, 2018

Lessons At 45

(Lessons you will not usually know until you’re “fortyish” and had enough) It is better to be disliked for being genuine than to be liked for being fake. Let your work speak for itself, but when others destroy your work for the wrong reasons, speak. You cannot push yourself up by pulling other people down. […]
July 2, 2018

SITIO Iligan Launched

Private and public stakeholders of Iligan City launched yesterday, June 27, the initiative to create more digital jobs and opportunities under a concrete business framework named as SITIO (Social Innovation Through Impact Outsourcing). Heading the launch were acting Iligan mayor Jemar Vera Cruz, city councilors Jesse Ray Balanay and Belinda Lim, lawyer Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, the […]
June 29, 2018

2017 eGOV LGU Awardees

Sixteen local government units (LGU) projects earned the spotlight during the 6th Awards for Excellence in ICT for Good Governance for Local Government Units or eGOV Awards last November 17 for their outstanding information and communication technology (ICT) systems. The awarding ceremony is part of the 9th National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) ICT […]
June 17, 2018

Bacolod @ 80: Building Intelligent Data Towards An Intelligent City

Intelligent cities are founded on intelligent data. And definitely so is a nation. The Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 goes beyond automation, which already occurred in the Third Industrial Revolution. But much ado is given to automation when the real spirit of this era is data. Data are fed to machines to make them […]