Domini Torevillas gets to know Dumaguete's OTOP

In town to attend her alma mater’s (Silliman University) 105th founder’s day celebration, Ms. Domini Torevillas, a noted columnist of the Philippine Daily Star, gets steered away from the portals of SU for a while as she gets oriented by DTI on Dumaguete’s main product (its OTOP) – that is education as a support to IT.

Last August 29, Ms. Torevillas spent most of the day getting oriented by no less than the president of the Negros Oriental State University, Dr. Henry Sojor; St. Paul University’s Sr. Nilda Masirag; Colegio de Sta. Catalina de Alejandria’s Fr. Enrique Balongag; and Foundation University’s VP for Academic Affairs, Dr. Eva Melon. The school heads gave overviews of their respective school’s program highlights and the important things that they’re known for. The idea was to promote what the City of Dumaguete offers and the human resources that we produce, resulting from the main business of this “unitown” environment, Education.

DTI Provincial Director Jong Fortunato, TIDD Chief Aracelia Maypa and CARP staff Tammy Sevilla also brought Ms. Torevillas to the province’s first BPO locator, SPi, where she was also given a tour and a powerpoint presentation of their services.

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