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Electronic products continued to be the Philippines’ top export in 2022 valued at $45.66 billion, accounting for 57.8 percent of the total exports.

Of the creative industries, symbols and images and other related activities had the highest share of 32.9 percent or P528.35 billion to the total creative economy in 2022.

Starting Feb. 23, Filipinos who wish to register to PhilSys can head to any registration center and would no longer need to pre-register through online Step 1 website.

The number of establishments under the information economy which owned and used computers and communication equipment in their business operations increased by 52.2 percent to 5,533 in 2019 compared to 3,637 in 2017.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said it has delivered more than 30.5 million PhilIDs, also known as national IDs, after printing a combined total of 50.26 million PhilIDs and ePhilIDs as of Jan. 31, 2023.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has unveiled the PhilSysQR Code Verification System that would authenticate the embedded QR code in the Philippine ID system.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said it is set to launch a mobile version of the PhilID as a digital alternative to the physical PhilID card to maximize the use of the PhilSys in digital transactions.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the digitalization of the civil registry system through tablet-based mode data collection has resulted in a 100-percent accuracy of data collection and timely release of survey results as it eliminated the manual data encoding.

Electronic products had total earnings of $3.71 billion, which accounted for 59.2 percent of the total exports during the period.

The government has succeeded in selling the idea of a secure, comprehensive ID system that is supposedly long overdue and only has good things to bring to this country. On that premise, the people must hold it to its word and, if necessary, take it to task.