During the plenary deliberations of the proposed 2020 DICT budget, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, the agency budget sponsor, told Sen. Grace Poe that not one cell site has been completed by D
The DTI is pushing a P300-million budget for the implementation next year of a new law providing incentives to registered startup companies, as it hopes to release its IRR within this month.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has set the wheels in motion for the crafting of the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector roadmap to position the Philippines as an AI powerhouse in the Asean region.
The Vitro Clark Data Center is a massive 7,000-square meter facility, which is also reportedly the first stand-alone disaster recovery (DR) facility in North Luzon.
Deployed into the 600-km Sun-Synchronous Orbit on October 29, 2018, Diwata-2 is the country’s third satellite sent to space, following the 50-kg micro-satellite Diwata-1 (deployed to space April 27, 2016) and the 1-kg nano-satellite Maya-1 (deployed on June 29, 2018).
The Better Broadband Alliance said it is particularly alarmed that the decline in the country's competitiveness is mainly caused by its poor ranking in "ICT adoption". The main culprit, it said, is the government’s use of analog policy in the digital age.
DTI secretary Ramon M. Lopez said that if the Philippines wants to achieve its goal of barging into top 40% of the rankings, it needs to implement more electronic systems in the government.
