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PH to lead global healthcare outsourcing in 2012—ICTO
By Anna Valmero
QUEZON CITY, METROMANILA—After surpassing India as the global outsourcing leader in voice-based services, the Philippines is poised again this year to become a top service provider in the healthcare information management space.
The availability of licensed healthcare professionals such as nurses in the country ensures the steady supply of agents to fill in the seats for healthcare outsourcing, said Alejandro Melchor, Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) deputy executive director.
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Iloilo Ranked #92 in 2012 Tholons Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations
Iloilo inched 6 points from #98 last year to #92 in 2012 Tholons Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations. According to Tholons, Iloilo experience a significant rise as aggressive development in infrastructure and capabilities development are pursued.
Read more: Iloilo Ranked #92 in 2012 Tholons Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations
STAC Silicon Valley Hosts Philippine Congressional Delegation
Narrows List of 2012 ON3 Locations and remains encouraged by Philippine Government’s Interest
to Support Science & Technology Cross Border Initiatives
Read more: STAC Silicon Valley Hosts Philippine Congressional Delegation
November 17, 2011 – Palo Alto, CA – The Science and Technology Advisory Council, Silicon Valley (“STAC-SV” or “STAC”) recently hosted a ten member Philippine Congressional delegation. Members of Congress including the Honorable Sigfrido R. Tinga, Joel R. Duavit, Vincent Crisologo, Maria Rachel Arenas, Rene L. Relampagos, Ben P. Evardone, Joseph Augustus A. Abaya, Arnel Cerafica, George A. Elias and Ronette O. Franco participated in a three day Silicon Valley road show from November 7 to 9 organized by STAC SV’s board and working group members.
Philippine Sees Outsourcing Boom
The Philippines outsourcing industry will grow strongly over the next five years despite global economic concerns and threats to its call centre sector, industry officials said Tuesday.
The industry is expecting to continue its rise from nothing 10 years ago to currently the world's number-two player behind India with 600,000 workers, said Business Processing Association of the Philippines chief Alfredo Ayala.
"It may slow down, but it's still going to be double-digit growth," Ayala told reporters at an outsourcing conference in Manila.
Blessed with an English-speaking work force, the industry expects outsourcing revenues to rise at least 15 percent each year to $20 billion by 2016, when it would employ 900,000 workers, Ayala said.
He said the Philippines now accounted for 6-7 percent of the global market for all outsourced business services, second only to India's 51 percent share.
Business outsourcing covers a wide range of services, from call centres to accounting, legal work, health care and information technology.
In the call sector centre alone, the Philippines last year overtook India to have the world's biggest industry in terms of revenues and workers, largely on the back of catering to the United States and other English-speaking countries.
Foreign experts told the conference call-centre jobs would eventually decline with computer software replacing humans in such things as attending to customer complaints over merchandise.
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where -- exceptionally in scientific publishing -- both gamers and researchers are honoured as co-authors.
Their target was a monomeric protease enzyme, a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV.
Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them.
But a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that "unfolds" the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs.
This is where Foldit comes in.
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools.
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