The Philippines has earned a voting seat in the five-member executive committee of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC), a worldwide conference of 119 independent regulators from all over the globe.
The LTO said it is preparing for the implementation of online payment of initial registration fees for three years of new motor vehicles and motorcycles in Luzon next month and to the rest of the country by the end of the year.
DOST secretary Fortunato De la Pena said that under the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP), 45,000 MSMEs have been provided with technological assistance with an average productivity improvement of 38 percent that created 227,000 jobs.
Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, a lawyer who has made a name for herself as a fierce advocate of ICT for countryside development, made a surprise announcement on Tuesday, October 16, that she is running as a mayoralty candidate in Bacolod City.
Individuals, doctors, and insurance companies may soon be able to access and track their and their patients' medical histories in an app via a single, consolidated, and secure blockchain technology-based system.
Industry players admitted that the logistics sector is currently undergoing an upheaval due to disruptive technologies such as drones, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI).
A House bill is seeking to increase the mandated additional pay for work done in graveyard shifts from 10 percent to 25 percent of the regular rate per hour.
The Open Access Bill, or House Bill No. 6557, passed on third reading by the House of Representatives and was transmitted to the Senate late in 2017. Its counterpart bill in the upper chamber, Senate Bill No. 1763, remains pending on second reading.
