GeoSpatial Solutions - Featured in JETRO Magazine (Sept 2007)
(Excerpt from : www.jetro.go.jp)
GSI, established in 1999, is a 100% Filipino owned IT solution provider specializing in Geographical Information System (GIS) and e-Government Portal Development. GSI is ISO9001:2000 certified and currently working on CMMI Level 3. As of August, 2007, no. of employees at GSI is 40. Mr. Efren E. S. Ricalde, president and CEO of the company, is a long time Japanophile ever since he heard about Japan, from his father who made a business trip to Japan in 1970’s, as a country where people value honesty and hard work. Even today, “honesty” and “hard work” are the cores of his management philosophy.
In 2005, GSI worked on a JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) sponsored project in which GSI created the latest map for Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), covering the entire 13,000 square kilometers of ARMM area. In this project, GSI created electronic map based on the image data taken from satellite and updated the existing 1:50,000 topographic maps from NAMRIA (National Mapping and Resource Information Authority). The ARMM maps developed by this project are going to be utilized in the various development projects of the region in the future.
Mr.Efren E.S. Ricalde, President and CEO and Ms. Gemma Pelagio, Vice President and COO of GSI holding one of the 68 pages of ARMM maps they created in one of the JICA sponsored project they participated.
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Another JICA project they recently delivered is Road Slope Management System (RSMS). This system centrally manages the read data and pictures gathered by road slope field surveys conducted all over the Philippines by DPWH (Department of Public Works and Highways) regional offices in order to utilize such data and information for risk analysis and pro-active disaster prevention measures. GSI also developed eMindanao Portal website and web application for World Bank-funded projects. This site serves as a portal for World Bank Manila Office to centrally manage various data on all the World Bank supported development projects for Mindanao. The system can provide project progress/status and generates reports on projects. On the online map where development project locations are graphically indicated on the map, not only the World Bank projects but also other projects supported by other international development aid organizations such as Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), etc. can also be found on the web site of e-Mindanao Portal. GSI, as an IBM’s premium business partner, built this portal on the IBM technology platform such as WebSphere Portal and DB2. GSI is keenly interested in the Japanese market as their area for future expansion. They have initiated in-house Japanese language lessons where 20 students including are currently learning Nihongo. Meanwhile, Ms. Gemma Pelagio, COO of the company joined the 3 month project management training by Japan’s CICC (Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization) held in Japan last year and she passed level 4 of Japanese Language Proficiency Test. She is now aiming for higher level of proficiency. |
Sample screen shot of Online Map on eMindanao Portal developed by GSI. Of the entire Mindanao map (upper left), selected area (inside red border) is zoomed up on the right side. Plotted on the zoomed up map are national road improvement projects and social fund projects supported by World Bank as selected on the lower left side.
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