The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said it is allocating a total of P24.13 billion for ICT-related expenditures from the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023.
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.
Richard “Bon” Moya, the national technology officer of Microsoft Philippines and former chief information officer of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), has died at relatively young age of 52.
The Philippine government said it is firm on facing the digital economy head-on as allocations have been included for this under the proposed 2021 national budget, DBM secretary Wendel Avisado said.
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) secretary Benjamin Diokno said he is ?pretty optimistic? that the proposed national ID system would be approved and passed into law.
