The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has thrown its support behind Senate Bill No. 2103 which aims to impose neutrality standard on the Internet industry, alongside prescribed norms for a standardized reliability and affordability of telecommunication services.
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former DICT assistant secretary Ivin Ronald Alzona as the new executive director of the National Privacy Commission (NPC).
The National Computer Emergency Response Team (N-CERT) and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky have recommended ways on how to prevent becoming a victim of the malicious tagging in Facebook.
DICT director George Tardio said the government should implement mechanisms to support the upskilling of online and platform workers and institutionalize social protection mechanisms for them.
The initiative aims to fast-track the digital connectivity of all public schools and DepEd offices nationwide and allow learners to have wider access to DepEd TV, DepEd Commons, and other learning platforms.
Based on the information posted on the DICT website, Manuel Anthony S. Tan has been appointed as undersecretary while Kristoffer L. Tiansay was named assistant secretary for regional operations and countryside ICT development.
The DICT VAS or D-VAS is part of the Vaccine Information Management System (VIMS) developed by the agency in support of the national immunization program of the government.
Under the bill, telcos and ISPs must “on a pro-rated basis, provide a refund credit to a customer, or adjust a customer’s bill, who has experienced a service outage or disruption for an aggregate period of 24 hours or more within a month.”
The government and MultiSys signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Monday, March 29, that will give the DILG complete responsibility and controllership over StaySafe.PH and all sensitive personal data that are collected with the use of the application.
