Makati City representative Luis Campos Jr. has called on online shopping platforms to ask their merchants and logistics partners to reduce their use of bubble wraps, and to consider alternative packaging materials that are either reusable or easier to recycle.
NextPay, launched in 2020 amid the pandemic, is a platform that provides underserved customers democratized access to easy and affordable financial services such as digital invoicing, cash management, and batch payments to any bank or e-wallet in the Philippines.
Smart Communications, together with the Agricultural Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture, has introduced a capacity-building initiative that aims to enable smallholder farmers to use the Internet and different mobile technologies to improve their livelihood.
More than half of Filipino workers are using mostly general skills that are not attuned to the modern technology-driven world, according to a recent study of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement, which will take effect early this year, is the first free trade agreement (FTA) of the Philippines with comprehensive provisions on e-commerce.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said it has a total of 49 projects in the first phase of its 10-year Digital Transformation (DX) Roadmap, of which 14 have already been launched or implemented as of the last quarter of 2021.
