Elabram Systems Group and ASEAN integration

ASEAN Integration will open a lot of possibilities to the Philippines knowing that the main objective is to create a single market and production base by ensuring a free flow of goods, services, investment, capital and skilled labor. The benefits will be overflowing though competition will be bigger too since we are opening our door to the other ASEAN countries to produce quality products and services for the global consumption. 

 

Elabram Systems Group, the manpower behind global telecommunications companies since 1999 have a footprint in the Philippines and getting bigger in terms of Talent Acquisition and Deployment (TAD) giving quality backbones for the different organizations not just locally but globally since the main headquarter is based in Malaysia with offices in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. 

One of the sunrise industry according to a credible economist in the Philippines is Telecommunications and since obviously, more and more Filipinos are using mobile phones and surfing the internet, all 50 Million users locally and the statistic is getting bigger each day thus Elabram Systems Group plays a vital role in giving out good signals around the Philippines with the Network Planning & Optimization Business (NPO). 

The role of Elabram Systems Group in the infrastructure for Telecommunication is very important since investors will make sure that they will have a good communication infrastructure from the Philippines to the global market. Transaction must be smooth and right message must be delivered.

According to University of the Philippines, “The blueprint for realizing an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 was adopted and signed by ASEAN Leaders in November 2007 in Singapore during their annual Summit Meeting The Philippines is one of the signatories in the AEC Blueprint, which means the country, along with other ASEAN Member States (AMS), should be open to zero import duties for ASEAN products and services by 2015.  AMS nationals, meanwhile, should be able to work anywhere in the region without a work permit. The Integration is expected to boost investments, job creation, and incomes in the region while the ASEAN Integration is expected to level the playing field among industries in the region, it is also expected that Philippine firms should brace for an intense competition with their ASEAN counterparts.  An intense competition will therefore raise the bar for innovation, quality and productivity, which will enable businesses to compete head on with other players.”

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The ASEAN integration. What it means to you?

We all heard the Initiatives of ASEAN Integration (IAI) for years and expected something in January 2015 which is now, where the Integration is expected to boost investments, job creation, and incomes in the region.  

The Asean Integration aims to develop an Asean Economic Community, same what the European Economic Community have which later evolved into the European Union. "The aim is to establish a single market and probably a single trading currency in the region by 2020."

Focus 

1. The integration is focused on seven components to ensures ‘free trade’ and the promotion of a single market (ASEAN as a whole) and production base. It consists of the following:

1. free flow of goods

2. free flow of services

3. free flow of investment

4. free flow of capital

5.. free flow of skilled labour

6. development of priority integration sectors

7. competitiveness of food, agriculture, and forestry sectors

From those focus, it means to say that in Philippines, if investors from the rest of the ASEAN countries will look outside their homeland, it means;

1. More land space for offices,

2. More manpower or labor force, 

3. More tourists in the Philippines,

4. More food consumption,

5. More businesses in the Philippines, 

6. Higher competition in the existing businesses in the Philippines,

7. More innovation in our part. 

The Philippines is one of the signatories in the AEC Blueprint, which means the country, along with other ASEAN Member States (AMS), should be open to zero import duties for ASEAN products and services by 2015.  AMS nationals, meanwhile, should be able to work anywhere in the region without a work permit.

The ASEAN Heads of State at their Summit in 2000 launched the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) with the objectives of Narrowing the Development Gap (NDG) and accelerating economic integration of the newer members of ASEAN, namely Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (CLMV).

The IAI main objective is to become competitive too in international market joining forces with the other ASEAN members. What's in it for Filipinos? Must be more projects because of the new investors, more work in different industries and must be decrease in unemployment. 

 The ASEAN integration. What it means to you? by Annie Bahwani