In fiscal year 2021, only 5 percent of LGUs made efforts to accept electronic payments through the Electronic Payment and Collection System, according to the Department of Finance.
It may be recalled that the cost per unit of the laptops procured by the Department of Education through the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) was P58,300, revealing that the purchased laptops were more than P30,000 above the discovered original price.
A lawyer working as a partner in the law office founded by First Lady Louise “Liza” Araneta-Marcos has been named deputy commissioner at the National Privacy Commission (NPC), a reliable source told Newsbytes.PH.
A new study has revealed the countries with the most and least Internet restrictions in the world and Philippines ranked among the top 10 least restricted countries, with an Internet restriction score of 5.13/10.
Supreme Court chief justice Alexander G. Gesmundo noted that online legal advice and dispute resolution, much like those provided by consumer-based Internet companies, have apparently reduced legal services to a mere commodity in the virtual marketplace.
After initially being excluded in the list of bypassed Cabinet members who were reappointed by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) secretary Ivan John Uy has been formally reappointed and took his oath of office on Thursday, Oct. 6, in Malacanang.
Ivan John Uy, the secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), was not among the bypassed Cabinet members who were reappointed by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Malacañang.
From last year’s 51st rank, the Philippines slumped to 59th place in the newly released 2022 Global Innovation Index (GII) which studied 132 economies worldwide.
