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.
The Philippine-California Advanced Research Institute (PCARI) Project was finally launched on Thursday, March 26, at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in Quezon City, more than two years after the Philippine and US governments signed an agreement to collaborate on science and technology (S&T).
Wireless operator Smart Communications, through its value brand Talk ?N Text, has partnered with Facebook to introduce the Internet.org app, which offers a set of basic mobile internet services without data charges.
The Data Privacy Law, which was approved in August 2012 and hailed by the local ICT industry as a landmark legislation, has yet to take effect since the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) has yet to be drafted and issued by the government.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) recently held a soft launch for the country?s first online marketplace for registered intellectual property (IP) assets of Filipino owners.
