BPO firm Teleperformance (TP) has partnered with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to implement the agency’s Special Register Anywhere Program (SRAP), hosting an on-site voter registration drive at TP Aura that processed applications from employees and their family members.
The ICT agency, however, has not yet released any statement on the reported issue with the installed software in the automated counting machines (ACMs), which was different from the software that had undergone independent review.
Grab Philippines and local motorcycle taxi platform Move It have partnered with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to launch #RIDETOVOTE — a two-phase voter...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), through the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind 24/7 Threat Monitoring Center.
The agreement signed last Jan. 24 by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines and the Commission on Elections is said to be the first in the Philippines — and may be even in Asia-Pacific -- in the area of intellectual property protection during the election season.
Based on Comelec Resolution 11064 promulgated in September 2024, cheapfakes refer "to forms of visual disinformation for which authentic images or videos are re-contextualized to deliberately alter their meaning.”
Content connectivity solutions firm SES and satellite communications provider We Are IT (WIT) have signed a partnership to deliver connectivity services via the SES-9 satellite to 43 offices of the Comelec.
Purported “tech expert” and Manila Bulletin section editor Art Samaniego was the subject of criticisms from local netizens this week after claiming in an online interview that the right to free speech of controversial pastor Apolonio Quiboloy was violated when YouTube terminated the channels of entities owned by or affiliated with him.
Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia in a statement released on Wednesday, May 17, said there is no need for a new law to authorize Internet voting for registered overseas absentee voters, since the poll body "promulgate rules and regulations and consequently, implement other means of overseas voting that are more reliable, secure, and efficient."
