The digital gap in the region, also considered as the inequality of income, education and knowledge, has been widened as a result of uneven technological development, said UN officials.
The mobile ATM is co-located in the PLDT office in the downtown area of the city. The fast deployment and activation was made possible through the cooperation of Landbank, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), PLDT, Smart and the Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation's HelpPH, the global campaign for donations via text.
Analyst firm IDC expects the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) Big Data technology and services market to grow at a 34.1-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $548.4 million in 2012 to $2.38 billion in 2017.
