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Monday, May 01, 2006
IT group accepts 17 new members
THE Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-IT) welcomed 17 new members during its annual general membership meeting at the Cebu City Marriott Hotel last week.
Cedf-IT president Sabino Dapat said membership recruitment and retention is important for the organization.
A non-stock, non-profit IT organization composed of stakeholders from industry, the academe and the government, Cedf-IT grew as an organization from 64 last year to 92 as of March this year, Dapat said.
“Our membership profile presently includes 41 from the academe, 36 from the industry, five from non-government organizations and 10 from the government,” he said in his speech.
He added that Cedf-it affiliates also grew in number with 13 members from Manila, three from Oriental Negros, five from Bohol, and one each from Ormoc, Cagayan de Oro and Bacolod.
But Cedf-IT didn’t meet its target of 105 members last year.
“But we are taking that direction now,” he said.
“For our organization to move forward, we need constant growth of revenues to fund our operation,” he said.
Challenge
With 92 members, only one third of Cedf-it’s yearly budget has sure funding.
“The challenge is to find funding for the rest of our budget. We experienced some shortage of funding last year and it threatened our operation,” he said.
Most of Cedf-it’s funding comes from international funding agencies, he said.
Another challenge, Dapat said, was acquiring “solid manpower” and a management team. Research and development activities should be improved also, he added.
Bonifacio Belen, executive director of Cedf-IT, recalled that four years ago, there were some 2,200 graduates IT graduates, but only 100 to 300 of them were appropriately employed.
Cedf-IT saw the need to find ways to intervene, to increase employment in the sector. (ALC)
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