The local team behind the Project Aedes developed a forecasting model of dengue cases using climate and digital data, and pinpointing possible hotspots from satellite data.
Currently, the transport sector is the biggest contributor to the country's total energy consumption at 35 percent, 88 percent of which is for road transport.
Smart Padala by PayMaya, which is touted as the country’s largest mobile domestic remittance network, is intensifying its push to provide more digital financial services to the countryside as it launches its flagship stores that act as “digital hubs” across the country.
Although the Covid-19 outbreak has had only a minimal impact on the video surveillance market so far, the industry still faces a risk from falling demand and a potential production bottleneck spurred by labor and component shortages in China, according to research firm Omdia.
From its 11th ranking last 2018, the Philippines climbed to fourth place in Kaspersky’s worldwide ranking of countries with the highest Web threat detections from January to December 2019.
The government said the National Business One-Stop Shop (NBOSS) and the Central Business Portal that was developed by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will improve the processing of business permits from 13 steps in 33 days to nine steps in seven days.
A new survey has found that while capital requirements remain the top concern of local startup founders, the main challenge has shifted from funding to sustaining a viable business model.
