The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said it is set to launch a mobile version of the PhilID as a digital alternative to the physical PhilID card to maximize the use of the PhilSys in digital transactions.
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said it will launch on April 21 the National Innovation Agenda and the AmBisyon e-Village, an online innovation platform.
NEDA director-general Karl Chua said there had been some improvements in the country's broadband performance, but the Philippines can do better as it currently ranks 63 out of 178 countries in terms of broadband speed.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the digitalization of the civil registry system through tablet-based mode data collection has resulted in a 100-percent accuracy of data collection and timely release of survey results as it eliminated the manual data encoding.
Socio-economic Planning secretary Karl Chua cited the importance of easing the restrictions on foreign ownerships, especially telecom and transport, that would help the Philippines attract more investments and create more and better jobs that are crucial to accelerating the country’s economic recovery.
The WTO said that the Trade4MSMEs website is a tool aimed at helping Philippine micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) find trade-related information that improves their ability to trade internationally.
The manufacture of computer, electronic, and optical products continued its downtrend in the third quarter of 2021 with an annual decline of -16.4 percent, the highest drop among the nine industries that recorded declines in annual growth rates.
However, most of the imported goods in August 2021 were also electronic products with an import value of $2.80 billion which accounted for 27.9 percent to the total imports.
The NEDA said its prioritization of technology, innovation, use of data science, digital information, innovative business processes, knowledge management, and human resource have profoundly transformed the agency.
