The House Committee on Information and Communications Technology has started the deliberations on a bill which seeks to provide free wireless Internet accessibility in government offices and other public places.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said it is now laying the groundwork for the formulation of a ?2020 E-Commerce Roadmap? that will serve as the industry?s blueprint for growth.
Speaking at a recent event organized by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in Makati City, former WB lead economist Marito Garcia noted that the escalating cost of tertiary education can deprive poor people from getting high-quality education, and later on, quality high-paying jobs.
The local ICT industry is projected to be in a continued upswing in 2015. With the country's gross domestic product (GDP) predicted to grow at 6.3 percent in 2015, the ICT industry will continue to ride the growth momentum recorded over the recent years.
Similar to the Foreign Trade Service Corps (FTSC) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the science attach? will have the responsibility of promoting the science and technology interest of the Philippines abroad.
In line with an earlier forecast of analyst firm IDC, the IT industry in the Philippines is set to close the year of 2014 with a growth of 11.4 percent as compared to 2013.
The final amount, however, is already is much bigger than the original budget of P300 million, when the ICT Office first proposed the public Wi-Fi program.
The Philippine outsourcing industry is off to a good start this 2015 as the 2015 Tholons International Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations Report showed that the country has added a new city in the poll of the most competitive cities in the world for outsourcing.
Las Pi?as City representative Mark A. Villar has called for an inquiry into the slow Internet connection in the Philippines compared to neighboring countries in Asia.
The local subsidiary of software giant Microsoft has partnered with tech firm HP to launch a productivity application for Filipino nurses dubbed ?Nurse Mobility.?
