TECH4GOOD Digitalization is fast becoming a keystone of economic growth in the modern world. And the Philippines today is among the leading countries in the region that is riding the crest of this transformation and taking advantage of the opportunities brought by the shift to a digital economy. It...
TECH4GOOD I have talked about this many times before – society that we know today is going to continue changing even at a faster pace than how it was five years ago. Things that we use to see as just sci-fi are now becoming to be reality. Disruptions caused by the exponential rate at which...
TECH4GOOD The very popular AI-tool, ChatGPT, has recently announced its initial support for plugins. This announcement has opened a wide door for third-party innovators to ride on the power and popularity of the tool. It just unlocked so much potential for so many things. To many people, including...
TECH4GOOD Micro-credentials have been creating a buzz lately as a potential path to helping solve the age-old job – skills mismatch issue. Europe recently adopted the Council Recommendation on a European Approach to Micro-credentials for Lifelong Learning and Employability. OECD, meanwhile,...
TECH4GOOD Digital innovations today are coming out at lightning speeds and cyberspace is fast becoming to be a rich goldmine for digital kidnappers. Data has become one of the most valuable assets for both legitimate organizations and crime groups. That is why data has become a favorite target of...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim Despite the proactive efforts of the National Privacy Commission to make everyone aware of the importance of safeguarding personal data, we still see a lot of cases where personal data are either needlessly collected or carelessly handled. Privacy is considered to be a...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim The Global Innovation Sustainability Index 2023 was recently announced by Tholons. It is so refreshing to see that the Philippines ranked 15th among the Top 50 Global Digital Nations in the report. In fact, the country is bunched with Sweden and South Korea as among the...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim Baby boomers like me should consider themselves lucky for having had the opportunity to see and experience how communications have evolved in the last 50 years. It is fascinating to think of the communication technologies and facilities available to Filipinos during the...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim My first Tech4GOOD column this year featured an article that was fully generated by an AI tool called ChatGPT. I just wanted to show everyone how powerful AI systems today are, specifically generative AI such as ChatGPT. Fast forward to today, ChatGPT seems to be on the...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim With the rapid pace of technological change, the increasing complexity of the global economy, and calamities like the pandemic, there is now a need for organizations and workers alike to adapt to the unending changes in the workplace. Organizations will have to constantly...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim In the last three decades, we have seen game-changing technology breakthroughs happening one after the other. The internet has ushered us into the Third Industrial Revolution (IR) and continues to be the basic platform for almost everything that we do today as we enter...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim The rapid digitalization of everything we do today is fast changing the country's financial inclusion landscape. Although the share of the unbanked population in the country is still one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region according to Statista research, the...
