Tech outsourcing firm Accenture said it has not taken away jobs since it mounted a massive year-round training program to upskill its employees for more challenging and meaningful tasks harnessing automation and artificial intelligence (AI).
The ePayment Portal requires passport applicants to prepay the processing fees through selected payment centers and, eventually, through debit and credit cards and through over-the-counter cash transactions in select banks.
The project is being implemented by the PHL-Microsat Program of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman in cooperation with the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) of the DOST and the Kyushu Institute of Technology.
The partnership deal came after Rio criticized earlier this year the NGCP after it came up with a "open letter" to Pres. Rodrigo Duterte wherein it blamed the DICT for the delay in the rollout of the broadband project of the national government.
The ICT committee has issued a statement in response to the comment of Globe senior exec Gil Genio made in a story published by Newsbytes.PH on June 5.
Following the appointment of Eliseo M. Rio Jr. as acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Malacanang has promoted assistant secretary John Henry Naga as the agency's newest undersecretary.
Cellphone users can soon keep their numbers even when switching providers as the House of Representatives gets ready to tackle the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) bill in plenary.
The House of Representatives has approved on second reading House Bill 7402, which seeks to give employees in the private sector the option to work outside the office through telecommuting.
