Through a host of projects ? both completed and still underway -- the government has embarked on an ambitious journey to automate various healthcare processes in an attempt to bring universal healthcare to the people, especially those in remote areas.
Following reports of unhampered proliferation of child cybersex operations in the country, Sen. Nancy Binay said she will file a resolution that would look into the integrity of the country's information security infrastructure.
An activist organization of IT professionals has cautioned the public against hastily equating the government?s Open Data initiative as a foolproof representation of the current administration?s transparency.
Analyst firm IDC the Philippines is looking at a healthy ICT spending performance in 2014 due to the rosy outlook in the country?s economic indicators, as well as the vibrant spending from the consumer sector.
The government, through the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), is now in the final stages of setting up a 154-kilometer fiber-optic network that runs on the infrastructure of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Metro Rail Transit (MRT).
As a way of creating an army of ?e-civil servants?, Department of Budget and Management undersecretary Richard Moya also said the government is planning to buy 95,000 laptops for public sector employees using the government?s ?Digital Empowerment Fund?.
Riding on the growth momentum from 2013, the Philippines is set to record 11-percent growth in total IT spending by end of 2014, according to research firm IDC.
Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes said the destruction of the court records in the typhoon-hit areas, particularly in Tacloban City where paper-based court records in the Hall of Justice were wiped out, has provided the justification for the judiciary to accelerate its migration online.
Believe it or not, an online or Internet version of a legislation or government order is not -- at least not yet -- recognized as an official form of publication required by law and therefore has no legal effect.
