Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, April 25, welcomed the decision of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to extend the period for registering Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for 90 days. The deadline for SIM card registration is tomorrow, April 26. Poe, head of the...
Will the SIM registration period be extended or not? The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Monday, April 24, said they are considering the possible extension of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration period. SIM card (Unsplash) Two days before the...
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Renato Solidum, Jr. believes the Copernicus Capacity Support Action programme for the Philippines (CopPhil) will strengthen the nation’s resilience to disasters and climate change. In his keynote address during CopPhil's launch, he said that...
The mandatory Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) registration will still end on April 26, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Wednesday morning, April 19. In a statement, the DICT acknowledged the appeals of public telecommunication entities (PTEs) to extend the...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) launched the Broadband ng Masa program in Davao City in line with its goal to eradicate digital divide across the archipelago. (Department of Information and Communications Technology) The program was formally activated at the...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) bared that the latest SIM Registration tally has breached 69 million, but this is only equivalent to about 41.32 percent of the existing cards across the archipelago. Data issued by the DICT showed that a total of 69,828,115 users...
Sprout Solutions, one of the Philippines’ most trusted HR technology platforms, announced it has secured $10.7 million in Series B funding from seven prominent global venture capital firms. In a statement Friday, April 14, Sprout said that the round was led by Cercano Management, with...
Waste management experts from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) provided a two-day training workshop for six Pangasinan Local Government Units (LGUs) to provide communities with science-based knowledge on proper waste management. According to DOST, DOST Regional Office 1 (DOST-I),...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has activated another free Wi-Fi site in Central Luzon, but this time it was located in the municipality of Bulakan in the province of Bulacan. “The DICT Region 3, with the support of local government units (LGUs), has installed...
Only 65,154,570 subscribers have so far registered their units, said the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) 15 days before the mandatory measure ends. In its latest bulletin, DICT said a total of 65,154,570 Filipinos have registered their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)...
Life, as they say, is full of surprises. Sometimes the surprise is a pleasant diversion. Other times, it leads to a completely different career path uncovering technical skills. Two people who made choices that were out of the ordinary and uncharacteristic of what they had planned are Kathleen...
The Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) confirmed on Saturday, April 8, that its official Facebook page has been hacked. In a statement, DOST-PCIEERD, an attached agency of DOST and one of...
