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The Department of Trade and Industry conducted the 1st Negros Island Region (NIR) Review and Planning Workshop on March 10-11 this year in Dumaguete City. This two-day workshop enabled DTI Ne-gros Oriental and Negros Occidental to share best practices in budgeting and planning of programs, activities and pro-jects. The workshop was facilitated by Ms. Miriam Bacalso and participated by all provincial officers and staff. Provincial office staff also shared their 2015 accomplishments as well as their targets for the current year and 2017. Included in the discussion were updates on provincial developments and events. The NIR organizational structure, action plan and resources were drafted to ena-ble DTI – NIR to achieve the goals of the department



Activities in Photos

25-27 February 2016, Robinsons Mall Atriun, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental

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Focus

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) disclosed it will soon craft a program designed to connect with social entrepreneurs to help them gain wider market access. “The government should be visible in these types of enterprises and help them grow so they can contribute in attaining inclusive growth,” said Asteria Caberte, DTI 7 director, in an interview. Social enterprises are wealth-creating and mission-driven organizations that engage in economic activities with the primary objective of reducing poverty. They are enterprises that are owned, managed and participated in by the poor and practice equitable wealth distribution or plow-back of profits to their communities. Caberte said that DTI has a lot of support programs that can be used by social entrepreneurs, including assis-tance in organizational set-up, market linkage, product design, marketing assessment, and support in interna-tional trade fairs. She also underscored that financing isn’t the problem anymore for most entrepreneurs but the right market access. “Microfinancing is already present. The challenge now could be more on the quality of the products we show-case to the world or the right market access,” she said. In Cebu, DTI isn’t alone in helping social entrepreneurs find the right platform to market their produce. Home-grown brands like Bo’s Coffee have started to offer their

outlets as the launching pad of many social enterprise products across the country. The social enterprise (SE) sector in the Philippines is urg-ing the government to push social entrepreneurship in the rural areas to create business and employment opportuni-ties. “Social enterprises can do more to contribute to pov-erty-reduction efforts in the countryside if we shape an environment conducive to its growth. The rural poor are engaged as workers, suppliers, clients or owners of SEs. More than providing jobs, SEs share the wealth they cre-ate with members and communities,” said Jay Bertram Lacsamana, Present Coalition co-convener and executive director of the Foundation for a Sustainable Society Inc. (FSSI), in a statement. Lacsamana added the government should go beyond providing livelihood programs to communities and look at social entrepreneurship as a “sustainable means” for pov-erty reduction. The organization is also pushing for the passage of a bill that seeks to mainstream social entrepreneurship in eco-nomic planning, provide tax incentives and exemptions, guarantee funds, non-collaterized loans, and an insurance system for social enterprises. The provisions seek to pro-mote adequate social services and employment and to raise the standard of living of millions of poor Filipinos. The bill is awaiting its second reading in both houses of Congress, after being filed by Reps. Cresente Paez, Ted-dy Baguilat and Anthony Bravo in the Lower House and Sen. Bam Aquino in the senate. (Sun Star Cebu)

(Left photo) Turn over of DTI-CARP BUB checks to Mayor

Alfredo Maranon III of Sagay City, Negros Occi-dental

By Katlene Cacho (Sun Star Cebu) | May 02, 2015




(Photos above) Negosyo Center launched BOSS Caravan with participating agencies: BIPC/Bohol Provincial Govern-ment, DTI, SSS, PAG-IBIG & PHILHEALTH, SEC & DILG in Tubigon, Bohol on January 22, 2016.

(Photos directly below) LEIPO National Summit Learning Visit at Negosyo Center Negros Occidental & PEDIC in February 2016

(Photo below) Negros Occ. Gov. Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr., Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, DTI R7 & R18 Interm RD Asteria C. Caberte among others, at the first Negros Island-RDC Executive Committee Meeting held in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental (January 15, 2016), presided by National Economic and Development Authority Regional Director Efren B. Carreon, Acting Chairperson of the NI-RDC ExCom (NegOcc Capitol photo)




(Photos above) Believing that a better quality of life begins with a stable and rewarding livelihood, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) recently participated in DTI’s financing forum at the Bogo City Negosyo Center on February 23, 2016. At least 39 micro-entrepreneurs from the City of Bogo, San Remigio, and Tabogon were taught how to nurture fi-nancial independence and entrepreneurship. The program is the first financing forum conducted at the center for this year. Launched on August 2015, the Negosyo Center offers three core services: business registration assistance; busi-ness advisory in the areas of product development, market access, financing, and investment promotions; and business information and advocacy.

(Photos directly above and below) DTI Negros Oriental Provincial Office con-ducted an inspection and inventory of import-ed cement on March 01, 2016



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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) conducted a Forum on the Regionalization of Philippine Export Development Plan 2015-2017 at Hotel Elizabeth in Ce-bu City on March 31 this year. During the forum, exporters from regions 7 (Central Visayas), 8 (Eastern Visayas), 6 (Western Visayas) and 18 (Negros Island) were apprised on government strat-egies to transform the Philippines into a competitive and innovative exporting nation and to make exports a primary platform to achieve inclusive growth. Facilitated by DTI’s Export Marketing Bureau, the forum also discussed the implementation of trade mapping and solicited commitments from stakeholders in the implementation of various programs under the plan. It may be recalled that the Philippine Export Develop-ment Plan (PEDP) 2015-2017 was recently approved by President Benigno Aquino III in a Memorandum Cir-cular.

An important element of the International Trade Strate-gy, the PEDP lays out a three-year plan of providing a business environment supportive of trade, growth and innovation that would enable domestic industries to es-tablish their niches in regional and global markets, in turn, raising the status of the Philippines in the global value chain. The Export Marketing Bureau (EMB) is the export trade promotion agency of the DTI Trade and Investment Promotions Group (DTI-TIPG). The agency provides frontline assistance, information, specialized consultan-cy services, business matching and other export devel-opment and promotion services to all exporters -both potential and established - and the general public. As the lead agency tasked to develop, promote, and ex-pand export trade, the EMB seeks to enable Philippine exporters to compete with world-class products and services.

Enacting an effective strategic trade law will provide greater opportunities for the Philippines to increase investments in the manufacture, assembly, and export of strategic goods,” said the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary, and Board of Investments (BOI) Managing Head, Ceferino S. Rodolfo.

The Strategic Trade Management Act (STMA), also known as Republic Act 10697, was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III in November last year. Among its key provisions is the creation of a Strategic Trade Management Office (STMO), an office under the administrative supervision of the DTI, which will be in charge of the registration of persons who intend to engage in trade of strategic goods as well as the issuance of licenses for the export, import, transit, transshipment re-export or reassignment of strategic goods. Rodolfo said that the strategic trade legislation will provide manufacturers from electronics, chemical, and aerospace in-dustries in the country vast opportunities to increase their pro-duction and exports of high-value strategic goods, either by expanding their operations or attracting new investors. Strategic goods refer to products that, for security reasons or due to international agreements, require regulation and control. These include accelerometers that are components used in cell phones; carbon fiber used as a material in sporting goods; nitric acid, a chemical that is used in fertilizers; and triethanola-mine, a chemical used in cosmetics.

The adoption and implementation of a STM Law complies with the Philippines’ foreign policy, national security interests, and commitment under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540. The resolution obliges all members to de-velop and enforce appropriate legal and regulatory measures against the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and their means of delivery to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. “Facilitating secure and safe trade in strategic goods will also contribute n domestic efforts to counter terrorism, control crime, safeguard public safety, and increase revenue collec-tion as smuggling and trade diversion will be substantially minimized,” said Rodolfo. The DTI, together with the Anti-Terrorism Council and other relevant agencies, are currently crafting the law’s implement-ing rules and regulations (IRRs) which will be released by 1st semester of this year. “We are certain that there will also be an increase in demand for highly skilled workers such as engineers and scientists,” added Rodolfo. He said that the manufacture of strategic goods require people possessing technological knowhow and expertise




(Photos above) DTI Cebu organized a Value Chain Analysis (VCA) Workshop for the DTI staff on March 14 &15, 2016.

(Video below) This video ( https://www.facebook.com/dtidumaguete/videos/224277301259129/ ) is on the 1st Negros Island Region (NIR) Review and Planning Workshop conducted last March 10-11 at One Bethany Place, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

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(Photos above) Negosyo Center launched BOSS Caravan in Ubay, Bohol on February 2, 2016 .

(Photos directly below) Negosyo Center launched BOSS Caravan with participating agencies: BIPC/Bohol Provincial Government, DTI, SSS, PAG-IBIG & PHILHEALTH, SEC & DILG in Ubay, Bohol on February 2, 2016 .

(Photos below) Knowledge Forum on LED held in Talisay City, Negros Occidentall in February 2016.



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The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI), the indus-try development and investments promotion arm of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), recently gathered representatives from various government agencies to generate their insights and recommenda-tions on the proposal to integrate inclusive business (IB) in government policies. IBs are innovative models where companies engage the poor and low-income communities as partners, customers, suppliers, and employees in their supply chains not out of charity, but because it makes good business sense. The integration of these communities into global value chains improves their quality of lives and makes for better business with diversified supply and distribution systems. Recognizing the power of IBs in achieving inclusive growth, government is promoting these models and encouraging more companies to adopt IB models or develop IB solutions. One such effort is the inclusion of IB policy in BOI’s 2014-2016 Investment Priorities

Plan where registered enterprises are encouraged to adopt IB strategy that provides goods and services and income and decent work opportunities for the low-income segment of the society within the enterprise’s supply or value chain, directly contributing to the improvement of living standards and poverty reduction. Such insights and recommenda-tions are important to craft policies that will further enable local industries and sectors to be globally competitive while at the same time ensure that they also strike a balance between being profitable and taking into account social good by involving the host communities of their businesses in their value chains. IB models help address different challenges in developing countries such as the Philippines, where poverty remains a problem. In the Asia-Pacific region, more than 700 million people live below the US$1.25 per day poverty line, a group collectively called the base of the pyramid. IB mod-els transform the base of the pyramid into a new market for goods and services, as well as a resource pool of talent, skilled labor, and entrepreneurs. This relationship strength-ens value chains and ensures the sustainability of busi-nesses and their host communities.

For the past years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has been providing MSMEs across the country ac-cess to better technology and more sophisticated equip-ment through shared services facility (SSF) that could boost productivity and improve efficiency. The SSF pro-gram addresses both the gaps and bottle necks in the val-ue chain of priority industry clusters, while increasing agri-culture and rural based MSMEs’ reach and profit. In the Philippines, one of the main challenges in develop-ing the Bamboo Industry is the lack of land planted with it. There are about 8,500 hectares devoted to Bamboo culti-vation, with four economically viable species – the Ka-wayan Tinik, Giant Bamboo, Buho, and Bolo. According to the DTI, while 8,500 hectares is a significant number, the huge demand for bamboo requires more cov-erage. The Bamboo industry could also use incentives and develop and exhaustive data base of the industry to encourage more investors in plantation development and processing plants. “With stronger convergence programs as well as partner-ships between the government and other stakeholders,

policies supporting the Bamboo Industry can be for-mulated and implemented,” he said. The DTI and the Board of Investments (BOI) launched the Industry Roadmap Project in 2012 to map out the directions, goals and strategies for industries as well as interventions required from the government and private sector to facilitate the growth and enhance the competitiveness of industries. At the launching of the Bamboo Showcase of the Phil-ippine Bamboo Industry Council, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Adrian S. Cristobal Jr. said that the bamboo’s potential can be fully har-nessed through continued collaboration between gov-ernment and the private sector in addressing the bind-ing constraints to the industry’s growth and develop-ment. For more information on the services of the DTI, log-on to http://www.dti.gov.ph

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The Board of Investments and retirement industry stakeholders envision the Philippines as a viable re-tirement destination for foreign and Filipino retirees. DTI Undersecretary and BOI Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo described the Philippines as an “emerging” retirement destination. “With our com-passionate and competent pool of healthcare profes-sionals and world class wellness facilities, the Philip-pines is fast becoming an attractive country for for-eign and Filipino retirees from around the world,” he said. The Board of Investments said that the Retirement Industry Roadmap will be finalized within the first half of 2016. The roadmap was crafted by stakeholders in the retirement industry in collaboration with BOI and other government agencies. The Retirement Industry Roadmap outlines the course of action needed for the industry to be global-ly-competitive. The Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA), current chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) for the Retirement Sector’s Roadmapping Activity, is currently reviewing the draft roadmap. In the Annual Global Retirement Index 2016, the In-ternational Living Magazine ranked the Philippines as 17th out of the 23 best countries to retire in. The An-nual Global Retirement Index bases its rating on a number of composite factors, namely, real estate costs, special benefits for retirees, cost of living, lei-sure amenities, healthcare services, infrastructure, and climate. The retirement industry has made considerable con-tributions to the economy, reflected largely in reve-

nues from visa deposits of Special Resident Retiree’s Visa (SRRV) holders. Introduced by PRA in 1987 to en-tice foreign nationals and former Filipino citizens to retire in the country, retirees can either apply for multiple entry privileges and rights to stay permanently or indefinitely in the country by way of visa deposits ranging from US$10,000.00 to US$50,000.00 and US$1,500.00 for former diplomatic corps workers. In 2014, PRA en-rolled 4,781 new retirees. Total visa deposits of SRRV holders as of December 31, 2014 amounted to US$452 million or about PhP19 billion. Although not yet comprehensively documented, signifi-cant economic contributions are known to also come from local retirees and pensioners from the Government Service Insurance System and Social Security System (of about 1.3 million individuals combined), Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO), and the Retirement and Separation Benefits System (AFP-RSBS) for the uni-formed services. Meanwhile, Retirement & Healthcare Coalition, Interna-tional, a non-profit, non-stock private organization affili-ated with the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines, is doing its share in making the country more viable as a retirement destination. The organization recently con-ducted a certification and training program for a Quality Management System based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 to participating nursing homes under the Public Private Partnership Project “Human Touch.” The activities under the program were tailor-made for the institutional frame-work of the Philippines. For more information on the services of the DTI, log-on to http://www.dti.gov.ph

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(Photo above) During the Round Table Discussion with DTI Cebu Provincial Director Maria Elena Arbon and BOC Collector Atty. Rico Rey Francis Holganza.

(Photo below left) During the 2nd Negros Island Regional Development Council (NI-RDC) Meeting. The Negros Island Regional Development Council (NIRDC) has approved an initial annual budget of P12.6 billion for 2017, on top of the P9-billion proposed infrastructure development projects for the newly-created region next year. The 12.6 billion is intended as budget for the maintenance and operations, capital outlay requirement, and programs and projects of 17 government agencies and four state colleges and universities (SUCs). It was endorsed by the re-spective regional directors of the agencies and school presidents during the NIRDC first quarter meeting held in Dumaguete City on March 11.

The RDC-NIR also finalized the region’s vision during the meeting. The NIR vision states, “By 2040, a globally-competitive diversified economy for a healthy, empowered, and God-centered Negrense in an ecologically-balanced, peaceful and resilient community with a dynamic, responsive, and accountable governance resulting to an enhanced quality of life for all.” (Photo below right) DTI Negros Oriental’s “Go Rehistro” team at the Manjuyod Satellite Public Market.

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Focus

What is social entrepreneurship? We asked Rico Gonzalez, for-mer director for the Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the founder and managing director of xchange, an incubator for social enterprises. Social entrepreneurship is, in a nutshell, “development work with a business model.” It functions as a for-profit business with the goal of earning revenue, but this is meant to subsidize the social work. It is often seen as a novel approach for ensuring a more sustainable means of achieving the social agenda. Each social enterprise has its own unique set of objectives, but the common denominator, explains Gonzalez, is that the objective “is not the maximization of financial gain.” Social entrepreneurship, as a discipline, is still quite young in the Philippines. At present, many local social entrepreneurs are of a younger demographic (mostly in their 20s and 30s). According to Gonzalez, we are seeing a paradigm shift in the way millennials view their career paths. Most do not aspire to climb the corporate ladder one step at a time; instead, they focus on choosing a job that makes them happy and gives them mean-ing. Thus, many are drawn to the social enterprise model. How-ever, given their young age, extensive business experience or training is often lacking, and so investors and mentors are crucial to their business development process. In fact, there is a growing class of investors called impact investors, who aim to work with such social entrepreneurs. As the name suggests, this type of investor looks not only to earn, but to also accomplish quantifia-ble social change. He/she evaluates the success or failure of the investment through the financial return and the social impact of the company. Gonzalez set up xchange with similar goals in mind. His group aims to provide assistance and capital investment to grow and scale social enterprises in the Philippines. As virtuous as social entrepreneurship sounds, it is not without its challenges. One of

the main questions social entrepreneurs often ask themselves is, how do we balance profit and social impact? There is no one answer to this complex question. Gonzalez reminds us that as much as it is important not to lose sight of the company’s social agenda, it is just as important to focus on the finan-cial sustainability of the business. That said, focus-ing on financial viability also should not take away from the social objectives of the business. For what sets social entrepreneurs apart from commercial entrepreneurs with a corporate social responsibility is that making a social impact is at the core of the company’s vision, mission, and operations. Social enterprises can arise in any industry. We interviewed a few notable, local, social entrepre-neurs who are making an impact in varied fields as food, education, and health.

Community shared agriculture

Charlene Tan, founder of GoodFood, wanted to start a business that emphasized community

shared agriculture (CSA).

Through her company, consumers receive fresh, organic pro-duce from local small-holder farmers, and also experience the abundance and scarcity of harvests along with the farmers. With a technical partner, SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolo-hiya), GoodFood currently works with three communities and approximately 50 farmers.

The company is particular about staying true to the definition of organic farming, which is more than just the removal of chemi-cals from the process; it is about taking care of the soil that nourishes the plants, and creating an ecosystem wherein all the different elements in the garden contribute to their suste-nance. GoodFood aims to create a nurturing, interdependent community where consumers and farmers care for each other.

Similarly, Zhihan Lee, a Singaporean national and engineer, founded Bagosphere, a vocational training program that ad-heres to the co-sharing model.

Founded as an LGU project in 2008, the Bagosphere program provides out-of-school youth with an intensive two-month course in English communication, I.T., financial literacy, and customer service. After training, the students are referred to call center partners in nearby Bacolod City and are guided through their recruitment process and professional growth.

As a business, Bagosphere operates using a model that em-phasizes self-sustainability. The company teaches its students hard work, discipline, and a spirit of paying it forward.

The company partners with microfinance institutions and non-profit lending groups to initially finance the students’ tuitions. Employed graduates are then required to pay their tuition back, and this income sustains the training of the incoming batch of students.

The company aims to train 10,000 graduates by 2020 and has currently graduated close to 400 students, with an 80 percent hire rate and 70 percent retention rate. Additionally, Ba-

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gosphere helps students develop self-confidence by showing them they can accomplish things they previously thought im-possible.

Sustainable startup

Another noteworthy social enterprise is Four Eyes, a company that sells prescription eyeglasses online at a significantly lower price. For every pair of eyeglasses purchased, the company donates a pair to someone in need.

In 2012, the founders, Pavan Challa and Jiten Lalwani, created Four Eyes as a response to the commercial need for afforda-ble eyewear, and to the social need of providing eyeglasses to the 10 million Filipinos who needed-but could not afford-one.

The company targets to donate at least 10,000 pairs of eye-glasses per year. According to the founders, their goal is to grow as “a sustainable startup that is able to generate a profit, but has the social aspect built into its roots.”

As businesswomen and entrepreneurs ourselves, we won-dered about the challenges and supports that social entrepre-neurs have.

Gonzalez validated that social enterprises sometimes face challenges that are more difficult than those faced by commer-cial businesses. Thus, we were glad to learn there are organi-zations that can provide support specifically for startup social entrepreneurs, such as Ashoka and Co.Lab.

Ashoka, a global pioneer and the largest non-profit organiza-tion for social entrepreneurs, supports more than 3,000 fellows globally. Fellows receive a living stipend for three years to ena-ble them to focus full time on their social-change ideas. Be-yond financial support, Ashoka provides a powerful global net-work of innovators, mentors, and peers that fellows can tap and collaborate with.

Locally, a group that provides a similar supportive network is Co.Lab.

The company provides a shared space for startups to gather, discuss, and grow. It encourages both social and commercial entrepreneurs to join, and invites specialists from different industries to participate, to ensure an expansive exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Talking to the different individuals we featured moved us to reflect on our own role in the realm of social change. Indeed, we all do not aspire to be social entrepreneurs, and we all do not need to be. The common theme we found while interview-ing these individuals is that they are all motivated to simply make a change.

More importantly, the change they often seek is not to re-invent something or to create the yet-unimagined. These indi-viduals seek to simply even the playing field, to make things more just, more fair: for the farmers tilling their modest lands, for the youngsters who do not receive proper education, for the poor who cannot afford eye care.

Ultimately, we realized, it is about us coming together as a society, as one "human" community, to help resolve problems that inadvertently affect us all. The social entrepreneurs take that extra step to actively create solutions to these problems, but we too can be a part of this effort, in our own unique ways. Perhaps by being more conscientious about the way we spend; by making an extra effort to support fair trade; by teaching our children the value of fairness; or, by getting in-volved in a social enterprise. Whichever ways we employ, it seems what is most important is for us to keep in mind that we are all a part of this undertaking, and to fully believe that even as lone, single individuals, we can certainly make a dent in the seemingly overwhelming endeavor of making a differ-ence. (Philippine Star)

(Photo below) Negosyo Center launched BOSS Caravan with participating agencies: BIPC/Bohol Provincial

Government, DTI, SSS, PAG-IBIG & PHILHEALTH, SEC & DILG in Talibon, Bohol on February 17, 2016



OTOP STORE—TINDAHANG PINOY CEBU.

OTOP Store, Cotcot, Lilo-an, Cebu, Philippines.

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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently launched the Philippine E-Commerce Roadmap 2016-2020, as well as the e-commerce.gov.ph website. The roadmap is the Philippines’ first on e-commerce and the DTI expects renewed and reinvigorated collaboration between the government and the private sector to fully accelerate the growth of Philippine e-commerce – one that is globally competitive and integrated. The roadmap’s main objective is to contribute 25% to the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020 (from 10% in 2015 based on estimates made by iMetrics Asia Pacific Corporation). The country’s micro, small, and me-dium enterprises (MSMEs), which make up 99.6% of Phil-ippine enterprises, will largely benefit from this initiative. By participating and engaging in e-commerce programs and projects, Philippine MSMEs can become globally competitive. Keynoting the event were Trade Secretary Adrian S. Cris-tobal, Jr. and Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship Chairman Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV, with trade undersecretaries Prudencio M. Reyes, Jr. and Nora K. Terrado opening and closing the event. Director Maria Lourdes A. Yaptinchay of the DTI’s Sector Planning Bureau/E-Commerce Office introduced the

roadmap AVP and presented the next steps that need to be done until 2020. DigitalFilipino.com site owner and Philippine e-commerce advocate Janette C. Toral moderated the panel discussion, which guested BSP Deputy Governor Nestor A. Espenilla, Jr., DOST-Information and Com-munications Technology Office Deputy Executive Direc-tor Monchito B. Ibrahim, Digital Commerce Association of the Philippines President Bjorn Pardo, and Director Yaptinchay The PECR 2016-2020 presents the Philippines’ strate-gic plans, policies, and other support measures to har-ness the benefits of e-commerce for the country. Its action plan is based on key areas highlighted in the APEC Digital Prosperity Checklist. It is intended to be a living document that will be contin-uously updated through regular stakeholder consulta-tions to draw up strategies befitting current and timely issues and concerns. Ultimately through this roadmap, more home-grown Philippine enterprises can directly access the global market or be integrated in global val-ue chain, enabling further access to larger foreign mar-kets. For information on the services of the DTI, log-on to http://www.dti.gov.ph





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