Usapang I-Café

For the first time a representative of the internet cafe industry joins the national forum of the network of civil society that is pushing for reforms in education in the Philippines. “The Education for All Challenge 2015 – Dialogue on the Millennium Development Goals and Education for All” organized by the UNESCO Commission in the Philippines [...]

I-Café Pilipinas represented by its Chairman Edgardo C. Zafra and PRO Arthur Gimena met with the new Chairman of Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) , Atty. Ivan John Uy . The courtesy call happened during the break in the Strategic Communication Planning Workshop for Philippine Community eCenter Program attended by the I-Café Pilipinas representatives last on August 11, 2010 [...]

I-Café Pilipinas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PayMyCafe during the soft launching of Pilipinas I-Café Consumer Cooperative last July 28, 2010 at Philippine Trade Training Center in Pasay City. The MoU provides for the collaboration in the roll-out and implementation of the business model of PayMyCafe through road shows and events to be organized by I-Café Pilipinas. [...]

Almost exactly a month of the new administration and with much speculations in recent days regarding the fate of the government’s Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) , a new Chairman is named in the person of Ivan Uy, a lawyer and former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Supreme Court. The news was confirmed to I-Café Pilipinas [...]

Microsoft Philippines continues its program offering affordable Windows 7 operating system and Office 2010 productivity software to i-café owners whose shops still use pirated software. The promo, now on its second wave, allows qualified i-cafés to avail of Windows 7 Professional Edition for only PhP3,299.00 per license while MS Office 2010 license can be bought for [...]

I-Café Pilipinas , as the national network of internet café owners, operators and associations in the Philippines, strives to empower the stakeholders in the conduct of their business and the formation of Pilipinas I-Café Marketing Cooperative is one initiative that the organization will launch on July 28, 2010 from 9 am to 6 pm at the Seminar Room [...]

The 2010 Yahoo-Nielsen Net Index showed that seventy-six (76%) of Filipinos going online do “Search”. The same survey showed that majority of those who uses the search engines to find what they need are students based on the ages of respondents. With the evolution of Internet search, students now have access to unlimited information and practically on [...]

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) , the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 to assume a number of Internet-related tasks including  managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses, conditionally approved dot-xxx (.xxx), to be the top level domains (TLDs) for the adult entertainment industry late last month. The dot-xxx domains [...]

A photo showing Mr. John J. Macasio of ON E-citizen doing a presentation about open-platform applications software that micro, small and medium entrepreneurs can use for free in the conduct of their businesses. The presentation is one of the topics discussed in the “eNabling the eNtrepreneurs”: An SMB ICT Forum held at Ballroom B, Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila, [...]

In support of the celebration of the National Information and Communications Technology Month (NICTM) this month, Microsoft Philippines is offering free PC use and Internet access in outlets of participating members of the Microsoft iCafe Program during “ ICT Hour ” on June 30, 2010 from 4:00PM to 5:00PM . The free “ICT Hour” is a wrap-up of this year’s NICTM celebration [...]

We often read in forums frequented by i-café owners questions about how much to sell their computer units that had turned obsolete and unusable for the kind of services that they offer to customers. More often than not, the i-café owners get frustrated upon knowing how small will be the amount they would get for their [...]

The Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 9775 otherwise known as the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 was formally signed by the members of the Inter-Agency Council Against Chid Pornography (IACACP) in a ceremony held at the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Auditorium, IBP Road, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Constitution Hills, Quezon City last June [...]

As part of the celebration of the National ICT Month and coinciding with the launch of Get ONLINE, Philippines! campaign of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), I-Café Pilipinas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government agency in a ceremony held at the CICT-NCC Building in Diliman, Quezon City last June 18, 2010. The MoU [...]

Intel Philippines is cordially inviting internet cafe owners to attend an ICT Forum for Small and Medium Enterprise entitled “eNabling the eNtrepreneurs”. This forum will be held on July 2, 2010 from 9am to 4pm at the Ballroom B of Crown Plaza Galleria Manila. The forum showcases latest technology solutions for entrepreneurs including iCafe owners and community [...]