The Philippine government said it is firm on facing the digital economy head-on as allocations have been included for this under the proposed 2021 national budget, DBM secretary Wendel Avisado said.
Aiming to reduce its customers’ costs when running mission-critical applications, software titan Oracle has announced that it will be taking its Autonomous Database and...
Sen. Manuel "Lito" Lapid has filed a bill that provides for the criminalization of the repeated unjustified cancellation of confirmed orders from delivery apps.
IBM Watson Assistant, a conversational AI solution designed and trained to understand natural language and interact with users to provide responses to Covid-19 questions, has been deployed on the interactive dashboard of UN SDSN Youth Philippines.
Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara is calling for the creation of a national database of all members of the informal economy to provide protection to the informal workers and to ensure they receive aid from the government in times of emergencies.
In its latest bulletin, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) reminded businesses, particularly restaurants, salons and barber shops, to collect only what is necessary.
In an earlier hearing conducted by the Senate public services committee, Sen. Grace Poe asked for the submission of several reports to find out the progress of government and telcos' initiatives in a bid to expedite the needed infrastructure to boost connectivity.
At an online hearing, House ICT committee chair Victor Yap said there is also a need to specify a neutral agency that would determine the measurement of Internet speed in the country.
The DICT announced on Tuesday, July 7, the activation of a microsite under the Gov.PH domain (wfh.gov.ph) to provide government employees a host of remote work tools, tips, and other learning materials for their telecommuting needs.
A waste and pollution watchdog has urged the Philippine government to ban the importation of electronic waste as it noted that 53.6 million tons were generated of e-waste in 2019, according to a newly-released UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020.
