CCCI goes digital with donated tablets

• Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2016/06/20/ccci-goes-digital-donated-tablets-480622
• Tuesday, June 21, 2016

By Katlene O. Cacho

THE Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) is now going paperless, after Samsung agreed to donate some 30 Samsung tablets to help the chamber become more efficient in its management and operation.

CCCI president Melanie Ng said they will distribute the tablets to members of the board for their use in all CCCI meetings and other in-house functions. She added the chamber will slowly migrate to storing documents on the cloud.

Ng said the partnership with Samsung is timely, now that the CCCI is celebrating Cebu Business Month (CBM), which bears the theme “Digital Cebu.”

In earlier interviews, Ng stressed that one way for the chamber to remain relevant to its community and members is to become digitally-equipped.

“Technology plays an important part in bringing our businesses to the next level,” she said.

This initiative, Ng added, makes the CCCI the first business chamber in the country to implement full digital management.

Samsung will donate 30 tablets of which 28 units will be distributed to the members of the CCCI board while the two units will be raffled off during the culmination of the CBM at the end of this month.

The Samsung tablets will become property of the chamber, which the current set of officers will pass on the next after the end of their terms.

Under Ng’s leadership, members of CCCI’s board, including the past presidents, were introduced to more tools in digital communication. She said they will exploit the available digital tools and services to stay connected with the chamber’s operation while managing their own respective businesses.

“This way the organization can respond immediately to issues that need prompt and on-time solutions,” Ng said.