Digital careers, digital entrepreneurs and a digital workforce – those are the new faces of the workingmen and workingwomen running global commerce and industry today. As economies around the world recover, the digital working landscape has become more exacting in its demand for better digital skills. It is heartening to know that many Filipinos have done well in keeping pace with the required digital skills especially during the pandemic when digital transformation in businesses was fast-tracked because of demand. During the pandemic, the local workforce displayed extraordinary initiative and innovativeness to keep pace with the digital face of business. The major digital careers and business that grew then were the freelancing service – among them artists, writers, craftsmen, food entrepreneurs, and delivery service providers. But the number of digitally skilled workforce in the Philippines is not high. Learning digital skills needs digital infrastructure, and gadgets are expensive to most of the learning population. Poverty incidence has increased in 2021, with 19.9 million Filipinos living below the subsistence level, according to Preliminary Results of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). The Philippines is only no. 61 out of 64 in the Global Finance ranking of the world’s most technologically advanced countries in 2022. It is ahead only of Colombia, Mongolia, and Venezuela. In the 2021 International Institute of Management Development (IMD) Digital Competitiveness Ranking, the Philippines placed at No. 58, out of 64 countries. In 2020, the country was No. 57. Lawmakers, who are very much aware of the need to be competitive in the global work force, have moved fast to draft a law that will improve the digital competence of its workforce. The Philippine Workforce Competitive Act (RA 119271), which lapsed into law last July 30, “shall enhance the skills and competitiveness of the Philippine workforce in human and digital technology and innovations.” To ensure this aim, the law states that the “State shall ensure that all Filipinos have access to and are provided with digital skills and competences that are at par with global standards, and shall encourage digital innovations and entrepreneurship.” The government can also enter into public-private partnerships with digital industry experts to roll out training and skills development programs for digital careers, it said. The law, whose principal author is Sen. Joel Villanueva, mandates the creation of the Inter-Agency Council for Development and Competitiveness of Philippine Digital Workforce. Headed by the National Economic Development Council (NEDA), the council will be the primary planning and implementing body to promote and develop a national roadmap to develop digital skills. Skills programs and other requirements for the enhancement of the digital workforce will be coordinated with the members of the council: the Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Communication and Information Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. The law has been received well by government and private companies. The Commission on Human Rights lauded the law saying it will ensure adequate protection for the digital workforce and ensure that their skills are constantly in line with global standards. As the digital skills required by the global workforce is rapidly advancing, we have to move fast to keep pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.