Y4iT 2008

By: Prof. Oliver Malabanan

IT Department, De La Salle University

Trivia: Top ten sites visited by Filipinos are: Yahoo, Friendster, Google, Youtube, Multiply, Wikipedia, Blogger, Imeem, Photobucket, and Msn.

Next top sites are: 11-15, Would You Believe, Youporn!, Rapidshare, Y8, nba.com, Microsoft.

The youth today learn more about the world via the net than teachers. It should be studied. There’s a lot of trash out there.

A mosaic of the connective intelligence is: people on the net create, share, re-create, extend content because of similar interests.

Wisdom of the Crowd: Given a popular idea, the majority rules. Popular idea rules, common idea rules, common idea is the one who rules.

Blogs are connective inteligence; wikis in a way are also collective intelligence, more wisdom of the crowd.

New formed idea is crowd sourcing or the collaboration of the abilities of the crowd.

Collective intelligence is better in smaller groups, not the whole world.

By: Mr. John Ruero

Country IT Manager, Misys International Banking Systems

Based on 2007 data, most hack attacks happen on a Wednesday, at 6 in the evening. By 2008, it happens almost everyday, and every hour.

Honeypot: resource setup for hacking to test security

Honeyney: advanced honeypot, network of honeypots

Honeymonkey: aggressive honeypot, invites hacking

By: Mr. Noel Feria

Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Michael Casey introduced the concept of Library 2.0 in September 2005. Mr. Feria said that the Libraries of today must operate according to the expectations of its users. And in an increasingly technology literate population, libraries must integrate Web 2.0 into its offerings. From the old days of static Web 1.0, we now have the collaborative, dynamic technology that is Web 2.0.

Social Cataloging websites for instance, have gone into the realm of books. These websites include the like of Shelfari and LibraryThing, which allows users to “share” their books virtually. Mr. Feria also introduced to the delegates in the UP Film Institute the up-and-coming Web 3.0 technologies and new concerns for libraries in lieu of fast-changing technology: Participation, User-oriented services, Privacy, Personalization and Globalization.

By: Dr. Giovanni Tapang

AGHAM / Computer Professionals Union / National Institute of Physics, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman

“No Computer is secure” Dr. Tapang warns the delegates to the Y4IT 2008. Since many people today keep their data in digital form in mediums, such as, hard drives, flash disks and the likes, people are more vulnerable to attacks on data and privacy, since information is stored on how devices are used. Computer Forensics is the discovery, preservation and analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. It is similar to data recovery, but has more legal implications. In computer forensics, we look for files, folders, applications, log files and file system artifacts in hard drives, removable media, network, memory, network hardware and archival media and recovering them. We use techniques in computer forensics in order to protect our information.

By: Ms. Ma. Corazon Akol

President, PhilNITS Foundation

Companies from all around the world are now looking for new, competent professionals to develop new technologies in a new and increasingly global supply chain. PhilNITS help potential IT professionals with this by offering two certifications: Fundamental IT Engineer Exam (a generic certification that evaluates knowledge and competence on the fundamentals of computer science and information technology) and Software Design and Development Exam.

The PhilNITS Certification is accepted in Japan, which means that holders of these certification will get preferential treatment in job applications in Japanese companies and priority in availing training scholarships. In the next few years, Japan will need 60,000 new IT professionals, worth some JPY 257 million. A PhilNITS Certification will open doors for information technology professionals to career development.

By: Mr. Jerome Gotangco

Platform and Infrastructures Manager, Morph Labs

Ruby is a general purpose object-oriented language originated by Japan in the 1990s. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL. Ruby on Rails, in the meantime is a full-stack framework to develop database-backed web applications. It has a “model-view-controller” architecture, and has an encoded web server, “WEBrick”. The Rails has been shipped with OS X Leopard, and is very-well supported across platforms.

The Morph Application Platform makes working with Ruby much simpler. It allows you to make applications for the web, Facebook, and even hybrid programs for the iPhone. It allows developers to make web apps like scrapbooking, social networking and online GTDs among others.

By: Mr. Jonathan de Luzuriaga

Industry Affairs Director, Business Processing Association, Philippines

Business Process Outsourcing is one of the fastest growing industries in the country. From revenue of US$ 1.5 billion in 2004, it has reached US$5 billion in 2007 and is already providing jobs to almost 300,000 Filipinos. The Philippines has kept its competitive edge due to its high English proficiency and cultural affinity to the US. Among the processes done in the Philippines include Contact Centers, Medical and Legal Transcription (with one of the highest accuracy rates in the world with 98-99%), Back office and Engineering design (with 38 engineering design companies with over 8,000 employees). Another, and rather popular process is Animation outsourcing; the speaker also

The IT BPO Industry in the Philippines in 2008 is growing from the year 2007. There is an increase in hardware and software production, and other skills in IT. There are 120 IT outsourcing companies and 29, 188 IT professionals in the country; thus making the Phils. to have US$423 million revenues in 2007 (an increase of 57% from a year ago). The speaker also enumerated some animated cartoons outsourced to the Philippines: Tom and jerry, The Jetsons, Addams Family, Scooby Doo, The Mask, Dragonball Z, Lilo and Stitch, One Piece, etc. There are 38 engineering-design.

Mr. Tim Vergel de Dios

Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Philippines

Mr. Tim Vergel de Dios, Academic Developer Evangelist of Microsoft Philippines, introduced Microsoft’s latest offerings for students and teachers.

Microsoft OneNote is a part of Microsoft’s popular Office productivity suite. OneNote is a virtual notebook that allows users to drag and drop content across Office and other applications. It also features an automatic citation generator for content pasted onto the application. Silverlight, in the meantime, is Microsoft’s next generation internet plug-in. Similar to the venerable Adobe Flash, Silverlight allows developers to develop rich multimedia applications for the internet. He also introduced Expression, a brand new suite of design tools for video and the internet. It allows users to make vector graphics, edit video and much, much more.

Aside from the latest applications, de Dios also introduced the delegates to the company’s online and student services, like Windows Live, Faculty Resource Center; which allows faculty from all over the world to share educational materials and courseware, Channel8; a collection of videoblogs, MSDN Ramp Up; which helps developers to brush up for their certification exams, and MSDNAA, which even allows users to get free, legitimate software from Microsoft. Also featured are MS’s Student2Business and the Imagine Cup 2009 in Cairo, Egypt, with the theme, “Solve the World’s Toughest Problems”.

Also, do not miss the chance to get free, full-version copies of Microsoft software from their booth over at the Bahay ng Alumni.