Acting DICT secretary Eliso M. Rio Jr. said Duterte?s support goes beyond the recently-concluded new major player awarding, which had another petition filed before the Supreme Court seeking to nullify the entire selection process.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPOPHL) should have the power to disable access to websites that are being used to infringe on copyrights or facilitate copyright infringement, according to Kabayan party-list representative Ron P. Salo, who is pushing for the passage of House Bill 8001.
The bill provides for the establishment of the Philippine Space Development and Utilization Policy (PSDUP) that shall serve as the country?s primary strategic roadmap for space development and shall embody the country?s central goal of becoming a space-capable and space-faring nation within the next decade.
Recognizing the different efforts of the DOST, DTI, and DICT to nurture technology business incubators (TBIs) in the country, the MOU binds the three departments to harness their programs and projects in putting up a conducive business ecosystem for startups.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to promulgate rules and regulations for telco entities to mandatory unlock phones and devices after its lock-in period.
The consolidated measure seeks to mandate all telecommunications company to transfer their cell towers to real estate investment trust (REIT) corporations.
After seeing a few years of decline, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is expected to come back with a vengeance in 2019, so much so that it is expected to become a major driving force in office take-up next year, according to Leechiu Property Consultant (LPC).
