The Electric Vehicle Incentive Strategy (EVIS) Program will provide fiscal support to qualified manufacturers of hybrid vehicles, battery-electric passenger cars, commercial electric vehicles, and specialized automotive parts and components.
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has lifted the moratorium on new information technology parks and centers in Metro Manila, opening another channel for technology investments as his administration advances the proposed Pax Silica industrial hub in New Clark City.
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. placed the proposed Pax Silica Industrial Hub at the center of his technology and industrial agenda during his 5th State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 27, as the government appeared bent on signing a framework agreement with the United States in November despite opposition from some political and civil society groups.
The Private Sector Advisory Council’s Digital Infrastructure Sector has urged Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to adopt a “One Canal Policy” that would require telecommunications and utility providers to share standardized infrastructure for fiber deployment.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) eGovPH Hackathon 2026 showcased nine government application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers, but complaints from participants over registration problems, delays, and the judging process have overshadowed the two-day event.
Digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys has called on Dermalog to turn over the source code and other technical components of the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), saying recurring outages showed the need for the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to gain full operational control of the platform.
Lawyer Russell Stanley Geronimo cautioned, however, that while the order institutionalizes local data-storage requirements, it does not necessarily insulate government information held by US cloud service providers from lawful disclosure demands issued by foreign authorities.
Supreme Court senior associate justice Marvic Leonen told court personnel that artificial intelligence may be used to assist judicial work, but must never be allowed to decide cases, as he defended the SC’s new governance framework for AI in the judiciary.
Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. met with executives of cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Malacañang on Wednesday, July 8, to discuss the company’s proposed investment in the Philippines, including the possible establishment of an AWS Region in the country.
