Manila held its First International ICT Awards to promote the Philippines as the World's BPO Destination of Choice for Multinational Companies and highlight the BPO opportunity to Filipinos and why they need to prepare themselves and their country for what might be the greatest opportunity they will see in their entire careers. Robert Jover - Software Development/Head of Leverage Systems Technologies receives the trophy from Norm Lo - VP Asia-Pacific of Research in Motion (RIM)

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in partnership with the Business Processing Association of the Philippines presented:

• Accenture: BPO Company of the Year
• Dell Philippines: Best New BPO Locator of the Year
• Leverage Systems Technologies: Best Mid-sized BPO Company of the Year
• Convergys Philippines: BPO Employer of the Year Teletech: Fastest Growing BPO Company of the Year
• Transprocure Corp.: Most Innovative BPO Company of the Year