Years back, telecom giant Globe laid fiber optic cables around Bohol, promising for information communications technology investors a high speed internet.
This should be enough to make Bohol a new hub for a reliable business processing industry.
That was also when we heard Tagbilaran was among the picked new wave cities, some places to watch because there is a programmed call center related courses in its schools, and has a stack of natural wonders as add-ons.
The celebration has hardly dies down when no less than PLDT bigwigs came to a spectacular switching on of the P600 million Domestic Fiber Optic Network in Bohol.
That event, they said, signals another astounding promise for the largely wonder economy called business process outsourcing.
With two options for acclaimed boosted speeds, the largest processors to render a new image of Bohol way up the poverty thresholds has been installed in the province.
In fact, even with single telecom giant globe in 2013, Bohol could have opened its doors for prospectors when it bade to host the national ICT Convention.
Industry workers said tit should be the perfect show window for investors to check the island which also has history and natural beauty as a value-added benefit.
The earthquake though, proved beneficial for Boholanos who seem to shuffle on the move.
The earthquake offered the perfect excuse for Bohol to lay its ICT plans aside for other pressing matters.
After the earthquake, we should now be seeing results.
And indeed, its shows: Our call center training institutions are not churning out quality workers. Other than the signs that also say Bohol is into IT, putting even the heat in it, not much have been cooking.
This is precisely what we meant when we said Bohol was right when it dreamed of developing its IT industry.
But if the development only happens in dreams, murmuring in our sleep won’t get us the investors who would open up call center seats for us.
In fact, lip service in our sleep could get us in trouble, ask those who have secrets to tell.
