No typhoon can prevent the Filipinos from supporting its boxing champ Manny Pacquiao in his fight against Brandon Rios over the weekend. In fact, even online users from the typhoon-hit province of Leyte searched the most for the keyword ?Manny Pacquiao? according to Google Trends.
While local telcos Smart Communications and Globe Telecommunications are still doing their share to reestablish communications in the affected areas, local subsidiaries of multinational IT companies are also providing cash donations and deploying their own technologies to help the survivors.
From its original target of P9 million, the crowd-sourced fund campaign for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda has already collected over P10.3 million since its launch two weeks ago, organizers announced on Friday, Nov. 22.
The digital gap in the region, also considered as the inequality of income, education and knowledge, has been widened as a result of uneven technological development, said UN officials.
Valenzuela City representative Sherwin T. Gatchalian said the government should follow the lead taken by Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei and other countries that have passed similar laws regulating SIM cards.
ICT Ofiice executive director Louis Casambre appealed to hackers, particularly those belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous Philippines, not to stage a hacking spree just to promote their event, dubbed ?Million Mask March? on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Buhay party-list representative Jose ?Lito? Atienza on Thursday, Oct. 31, said he will be filing a measure to amend the Automated Election Law to modify the computerized elections to make voting and canvassing to be done manually while the results transmitted electronically.
Sen. Alan Peter S. Cayetano has bared plans to push for an institutionalized system of enabling Filipinos to send donations for victims of calamities via text messages in the wake of the powerful earthquake that struck the Visayas region last week.
