The Private Sector Advisory Council’s Digital Infrastructure Sector has urged Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to adopt a “One Canal Policy” that would require telecommunications and utility providers to share standardized infrastructure for fiber deployment.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) eGovPH Hackathon 2026 showcased nine government application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers, but complaints from participants over registration problems, delays, and the judging process have overshadowed the two-day event.
Digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys has called on Dermalog to turn over the source code and other technical components of the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), saying recurring outages showed the need for the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to gain full operational control of the platform.
Lawyer Russell Stanley Geronimo cautioned, however, that while the order institutionalizes local data-storage requirements, it does not necessarily insulate government information held by US cloud service providers from lawful disclosure demands issued by foreign authorities.
Supreme Court senior associate justice Marvic Leonen told court personnel that artificial intelligence may be used to assist judicial work, but must never be allowed to decide cases, as he defended the SC’s new governance framework for AI in the judiciary.
Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. met with executives of cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Malacañang on Wednesday, July 8, to discuss the company’s proposed investment in the Philippines, including the possible establishment of an AWS Region in the country.
Online tax filing is helping more Filipinos formalize their income, but many of those using digital tax tools are still dealing with financial pressure, according to Taxumo’s 2026 State of Online Taxation report.
The measure comes as lawmakers cite growing concerns over cyberbullying, online exploitation, addictive platform designs, misinformation, and the mental health effects of excessive social media use among children.
The Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) also noted that gaming in the country is no longer an activity dominated by children, citing industry data showing that about 62.4 million Filipinos play video games and that more than 80% of gamers are adults, with an average age of 36.
Users of digital banking services are expected to receive stronger protection against fraud and unauthorized account access as banks and e-wallet operators implement enhanced authentication measures required by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
