The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a proposed legislation on Internet equity by removing taxes on the use of Wi-Fi frequencies by local telcos.
The House of Representatives announced Thursday that its IT team has successfully blocked a staggering 541.66 million attacks on its website on Wednesday, March 13, indicating what industry experts call a Distributed Denial-of-Service or DDoS attack.
House Bill 9726 would facilitate the establishment of at least two Philippine Science High School campuses per region, but only one campus per province.
A senior citizen party-list group in Congress has called on online shopping sites to make the availment of senior and PWDs discount be user-friendly and obvious on their online portals and apps.
Congress TV is a dedicated free-to-air digital channel that will broadcast daily the sessions and regular legislative work of the House of Representatives. It will also stream the session through its social media platforms.
The bill seeks to establish a “Digital Prison Records System” designed to store, manage and share information related to persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), their cases, relevant court orders, and other related matters.
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved on third and final reading a bill that would institutionalize a mechanism to refund customers in case of outages and disruptions with their Internet or telecommunications services.
The eCongress website, an integrated digital legislative management system, will allow the two chambers of the legislature to strengthen coordination and make the inter-chamber processes much better and faster.
House Bill 7327 mandates the creation of the Philippine Infostructure Corp. to manage government ICT assets, including infrastructure, platform, and software. The corporation shall have an authorized capital of P5 billion.
