The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is soliciting the support of lawmakers after its proposed budget for National Broadband Program was trimmed from P18 billion to P902 million.
Under the program, Alibaba Business School’s Global Digital Talent (GDT) team will train the professors of iAcademy with its e-commerce courseware that will be incorporated in iAcademy’s business course subjects.
Nine student groups with mostly tech projects bagged research grants up to P800,000 each as the Department of Science and Technology announced its winners of the Young Innovators’ Program.
Technology giant Accenture has announced the formation of a new business unit called “Accenture Cloud First” with a $3-billion investment over the next three years.
With the increase of time being spent online and the diverse activities being posted on different social media platforms, security firm Kaspersky is reminding parents about the risks of oversharing online.
There are now more than 40 million unique YouTube viewers in the Philippines each month, as more Filipinos tucked into their homes watching videos on how to be a better plantito or plantita, among other growing niche passions.
In a letter addressed to Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) secretary Gregorio Honasan II and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) secretary Eduardo Año, PLDT-Smart identified areas currently inaccessible due to Covid-19 community quarantine measures.
Without a vaccine for Covid-19, BSP assistant governor Iluminada Sicat said the increasing trend in digital transactions is expected to continue “even as lockdown measures are eased”.
Under Bayanihan 2, the P4 billion allocation aims to assist DepEd in putting up ICT and digital infrastructure, the implementation of digital education, and the use of alternative learning modalities, including the printing and delivery of self-learning modules.
