Sen. Manuel "Lito" Lapid has filed a bill which seeks to create the Transcendent Unified Government Mobile Application (TUGMA), an online portal of each government agency and instrumentality.
NEDA has urged the government to speed up the implementation of the digital contact tracing system that could help reduce the period from detection of Covid-19 virus to isolation from 7 to 5 days.
Alibaba Cloud said the data center will be constructed in Metro Manila and will bring the company’s total availability zones to 76, spread across 25 regions worldwide.
Sancho Mabborang, the regional director for Cagayan Valley at the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has been named the undersecretary for regional operations at the agency.
Accenture said companies leading in technology investment have seen five times more growth in revenue during the pandemic than businesses lagging behind in this area.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros has called on the DICT to demand 3rd telco Dito Telecommunity to step up its services, after reports of consumer complaints about the telco's "poor services", while Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for the registration of pre-paid SIM cards after a series of incidents involving scams were committed on food delivery riders.
The DOST said the satellite project allows for the identification of ships and the locations they have visited -- information that is useful in guarding the country’s territorial waters against illegal vessels.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was the overarching theme at Google IO, the tech giant’s flagship event which went digital this year with top company officials making their presentations via YouTube livestream.
