Sen. Jinggoy Estrada is seeking a Senate investigation into the Department of Education (DepEd)’s computer procurement program to determine if it has resorted to the practice of "splitting of contracts" to be able to grant multi-billion peso deals to only a few "favored" suppliers of the agency.
The US Agency for International Development's Better Access and Connectivity project (USAID-BEACON) held a webinar last Sept. 7 to discuss how the Indo-Pacific can improve its ICT infrastructure’s security, resilience, and disaster preparedness.
In a virtual roundtable last Aug. 31, tech giant Google laid out the tools, services, and programs it provides to news publishers in the Asia Pacific so these institutions can adapt to the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
House ICT committee chair and Navotas City representative Tobias Reynald Tiangco said the country's large number of prepaid mobile subscriptions provides opportunities for nefarious individuals, as well as criminal acts for terrorists and insurgents.
The Batangas Container Terminal (BCT) officially became the first port in the Philippines to transition to an automated gate system (AGS) backed by machine learning.
Department of Finance (DOF) secretary Benjamin Diokno identified digitalization as the key to transforming the system and eradicating corruption within the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs.
Sen. Grace Poe highlighted the need to also dig deeper on how the telcos guarantee that their respective database is shielded from breaches and leakages.
Last Monday, the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology approved the SIM card registration bill as a rush of "personalized" text scams sent to mobile subscribers made it to the headlines.
