The Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) said the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely impacted the local EV industry with the number of registered EVs in the country dropping by 35% to 1,015 units in 2020 from 1,570 units in 2019.
The 2022 budget for the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP), which aims to provide ICT packages and IT infrastructure in public schools, is approximately double the amount allocated in last year’s General Appropriations Act allocation.
The Department of Education (DepEd) acknowledged that cheating has always presented a challenge to the education system but it became more widespread and problematic during the pandemic.
X-Files and the slogan it helped popularize best explain Zero Trust, an emerging trend in cybersecurity that is here to stay, even after the pandemic is over.
The Philippines showed strong results in Internet quality (20th) and e-security (30th), but lagged behind in Internet affordability (72nd), e-infrastructure (63rd), and e-government (67th).
Due to the pandemic and decreasing budget for research and development (R&D), the Philippines fell by a notch from 50th place last year to the 51st spot in the 2021 Global Innovation Index (GII) report.
Automated parking assist will become a standard feature in the next decade as the technology becomes more widely accepted, analyst firm ABI Research said.
