I-Café Pilipinas To Launch A Marketing Cooperative

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 A and B of the Philippine Trade Training Center, CCP Complex, Buendia Ave Corner Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.

The theme of the launching will be “Walk the Talk: Putting Advocacies to Work in Providing ICT Opportunities at the Community Level”

The Pilipinas I-Cafe Marketing Cooperative is the result of advocacy and planning work by the people behind I-Cafe Pilipinas in its quest to bring about substantial changes in the internet cafe industry in the country. The organization believes that a vital component of empowerment of its stakeholders would be providing the means in which they would have direct access to vital ICT products, technologies and services that they would need in order to improve their business conditions. A sense of ownership through a cooperative movement is the vehicle for vision to take shape.

At the outset, Pilipinas I-Café Marketing Cooperative has been granted a non-exclusive distributorship status by Redfox Technologies Inc.. The cooperative’s core activity will be the development and management of sales channels for Redfox products using the internet cafes and other community based networks as its main access centers.  It hopes to provide income opportunities to ICT practitioners at the community level by providing them access to computer hardware, software, trainings and business solutions.