Lipa City named next wave city for BPO for third time

For the third time, the city of Lipa in the province of Batangas has been included in the ‘next wave cities’ list for the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. The Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) and the Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) named eight cities in Luzon, including Lipa City, in the list of the Next Wave Cities for the growth of the country’s information technology and BPO sector. Lipa City, which is located 78 kilometers from Manila, is home to Alorica Philippines, the largest BPO site in the country of US-based Alorica. Lipa was also named in the next wave cities list in 2009 and 2012.