In order to exercise its power to regulate the telecommunications industry and consequently speed up the ?slow and expensive? Internet connection in the country, the government is proposing to reclassify Internet broadband as a basic service rather than a mere value-added service.
The agency announced the vacancies to further implement and complete the eGovernment Masterplan (eGMP) and the Medium Term ICT Harmonization Initiative (Mithi). Among the essential e-government projects to be implemented by the project managers are those under the Integrated Government Philippines (iGovPhil) project, which aims to interconnect government agencies and automate processes for faster and more efficient public service.
The University of the Philippines in Manila developed a digital library of the country?s traditional practices on health and healing to prevent them from being patented by private companies.
Being locally hosted affords clients minimal latency and that local attack traffic is mitigated in-country, addressing data sovereignty concerns. Customers are guaranteed less or zero work distractions since they won?t notice that they are being protected as the solution works quietly in the background.
Online gambling in the Philippines is going to overtake local casinos sooner than later. That?s the fearless forecast of Dennis Valdez, president of PhilWeb, the only authorized online gambling operator in the Philippines.
As addresses using IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) begin to run out, technology investors and stakeholders in the Philippines and Asia Pacific are being urged to transition to IPv6 in order to maintain a scalable Internet for the region.
Although the Philippines topped the SEA region in having APT activities, it only ranked fifth among the ten APJ countries included in the report. Unlike other cyberattacks, APT bypass traditional defenses like firewalls, next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and security gateways.
What started as light-hearted social media posts about the lack of “Chicken Joy” in the menu of Jollibee stores has exploded into a full-blown crisis for a French-owned systems integrator that is implementing the fast-food giant’s “IT systems upgrade”.
The Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICT Office) and the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) have launched the first Philippine Start-up Challenge (PSC) to promote ITpreneurship among Filipino students.
Saying that Internet data that travel outside of the country are vulnerable to security risks and contribute to the slowdown in Internet speed, a major cloud computing firm has thrown its full support behind the IP (Internet protocol) peering initiative of the government via the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
