Working with fellow governments, an official from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) recently sat down with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium in relation to the country's plans for digital cooperation. Department of Information and Communications Technology...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is exploring digital cooperation with Belgium in the areas of cybersecurity, digital ID, and satellites. Belgium has an eID, an electronic proof of identity that citizens use for electronic transactions, such as signing electronic...
The Philippines and China are strengthening their digital cooperation, a move that will accelerate the country's own digitalization, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John E. Uy said Friday, Jan. 6. The DICT Secretary signed a memorandum of understanding...
JobStreet, the leading online job platform in Southeast Asia, has identified six skills that employers will be looking for in candidates and ensure job seekers become ready in the competitive job market this year. In a statement, JobStreet by SEEK said these skills are digital literacy,...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim By the time this article gets published, 2023 would have started. Happy New Year everyone! Several weeks back, I had written about an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that has become a viral sensation and is continuing to hug the limelight in the tech space, ChatGPT....
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim Many have written about the current technology divide in our society; the “digital immigrants” and the “digital natives.” The difference mainly lies in the year people were born relative to the time digital technology became a way of life. While digital natives...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched a management portal system that will connect its electronic data-based documents to its counterparts in the Southeast Asia region. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the project is the Philippine government's commitment to have interconnectivity of...
The Philippines' digital transformation must go side-by-side with its continued infrastructure development. (Sam Albury/ Unsplash) Thus, reckoned Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, who learned from Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy...
A total of 53 teaching and non-teaching staff from Surigao City and Butuan City have benefitted from the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) free 36-hour digital technical training. TRAINING COMPLETE. Over 50 teaching and non-teaching personnel in Caraga have...
FROM THE MARGINS Some good news! Our employment and unemployment rates have returned to pre-pandemic levels based on recent PSA data. The country’s employment rate reached 95.5 percent in October with 47.11 million employed Filipinos, a significant jump from the 43.82 million employed in October...
Through its “Sasakyan ng Karunungan” initiative, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Caraga conducted a digital literacy training for the Higaonon tribe in Las Nieves, Agusan Del Norte. The act, according to the department, was launched through the joint...
PLDT Inc. announced Friday, Dec. 16, that subsidiaries, Smart Communications, Inc. and Digitel Mobile Phils., Inc., have signed the P9.2 billion sale of 650 telecommunications towers to Unity Digital Infrastructure Inc. The price reflects the value of the towers located in the Visayas and Mindanao,...
