In its study ?Human Resources in Science and Technology in the Philippines? (HRST), the DOST-SEI reported that the number of science workers grew by 99.17 percent from 1990 to 2010.
The Aquino administration announced on Saturday, May 2, that the Philippines remains off the US government's list of countries with intellectual property issues.
Under the DOST Smarter Philippines Program, a smarter city means that a city?has put in place enough ICT (information communication technology) infrastructure? that are ?instrumented? through the merging of data, ?interconnected? through networks, and ?intelligent? through data trends.
The company marked its venture into the Philippine market via a launch event themed Next Generation Datacenter Security on Friday, April 24 at the Makati Shangri-La with over 100 guests in attendance.
Telco giant PLDT announced on Thursday, April 23, that it has invested $15 million (about P664 million) in Malaysia-based technology start-up iflix, which plans to be Southeast Asia's leading Internet TV service.
The rapid growth of the IT-BPO (information technology-business process outsourcing) industry and the remittance inflows from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will fuel the Philippine to become a $1-trillion economy by 2029.
Data from the report?s Networked Readiness Index (NRI), which measures 143 economies in terms of their capacity to prepare for, use and leverage ICTs, suggest that the gap between the best and worst performing economies is widening.
Remember Sweetie, the virtual 10-year-old Filipina girl created to catch online sex abusers? Her creator, Dutch children?s rights organization Terre des Hommes, has just launched Sweetie 2.0, which is basically chat robots designed to nab Web predators.
As the government prepares for the full-blown implementation of the P1.4-billion Free Internet Access in Public Places Project, the ICT Office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said the program's pilot roll-out is making strides in providing residents in Tubigon and Talibon, Bohol, the capability to access the Internet.
DigiBayanihan, a digital literacy program principally led by Intel Philippines and the ICT Office of the Department of Science and Technology, is eyeing to provide tech skills to five million Filipinos this year.
