A resolution inquiring from the President the status of the move for the inclusion of Bacolod City and the Western Visayas region under the coverage of "cyberservices corridor project" was passed by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod recently.

The resolution, coursed through the Office of the Executive Secretary and the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, is inquiring about the status of Bacolod and Western Visayas under the project especially in the efforts to improve the educational system and increase the human resource capital for the ICT sector in Western Visayas.

It said the CyberServices Corridor project is an ICT channel running over 600 miles across the country, from Baguio City in north and Zamboanga down south of the archipelago.

The resolution said the CyberServices Corridor is the brainchild of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and that from the onset of her Presidency, the ICT and ICT-enabled business and industries have increasingly grown and supported the growth of other sectors in the economy. The resolution also said that because of the increasing demand for knowledge workers, the CICT affirmed the need to increase the capability and capacity of the education system.

The Cyber Corridor will also focus on the implementation of the National Distance Learning Program to be implemented by the DepEd, and Training for Work Scholarship Project implemented by TESDA, to be able to produce graduates for the knowledge economy, it said.

The resolution was proposed by Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue and amended by Councilors Dindo Ramos and Alex Paglumotan.*CGS

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