If you have a million-dollar idea
for a software company, now is the time to get it started, according to
the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA).
There are 300 software startups in the country at the moment, yet the
public and private funds available to be used for these are so much
more, said Joey Gurango, PSIA President, during a media briefing at the
SOFTCON.PH conference, Thursday.
The Philippines is still the leader in the voice
business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, according to Gurango, but is
only close second or third next to India when it comes to export
revenues from software engineering services from the IT-BPO industry.
There are 14 product teams already on board, and PSIA aims to
increase this number to 20 by the end of the year. All these teams
presented their software products in an exhibit during SOFTCON.PH.
One of them is Tom Taps, a mobile app that contains activities and
tools that aid and help encourage learning for children with special
needs.
It contains a communication tool where a
child can choose picture cards that say what he or she means to say. It
also has a scheduler board, a theraputic tool, and a set of learning
games.
Another is WaitLifter, a virtual queueing
system that allows people to be wherever they want while waiting for
their turn instead of staying in long queues.
Right now, the product is being tested in doctors' private clinics in a
town near Gen. Santos City and in Makati Med in Metro Manila, said
software developer Benjamin Jiao.
"Our main goal
for this phase is just to get as much feedback as we can from the
doctors as well as the patients and refine the app before we sell it,"
he said.
The hospital secretary only needs to
enter the patient's name and mobile number into the system. The system
then sends an automated SMS notification to the customer as his turn
nears.
The system is also capable of estimating how long a certain appointment lasts based on its historical data.
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