A digital and globally competitive nation by 2040? Information and Communications Technology Anna Mae Lamentillo said the DICT is working hand in hand with other government agencies to attain a shared goal: to make the Philippines a “prosperous middle class and globally competitive society” by...
Filipinos, like the rest of Asians, now switch downtime pursuits into ‘up-time’ opportunities, turning to their mobile phones to relax. This was according to the third and final installment of Telenor Asia's study into people’s Digital Lives released Tuesday, January 31. At present, people in...
Starting next week, enforcers of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country will no longer issue a hard copy of traffic violation tickets as part of the digital shift of the agency. Instead, LTO chief Jose Arturo “Jay Art” Tugade said its officers will be using a Law Enforcement...
With just a P1000 loan, Tala helped Aimee achieve her dreams of starting her own business, allowing her and her family access to more opportunities. Digital alternative finance channels are giving millennial micro-small-and-medium-enterprise (MSME) owners more capital to fund their businesses,...
In line with the administration’s goal to make the country more competitive and “truly digital,” the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) explored another digital cooperation – this time with Denmark. In a statement issued on Monday, Jan. 23, DICT Undersecretary...
Local banks are in the sights of global fintech platforms provider, Intellect Design Arena, which targets the Philippines as a lucrative "strategic market". Over the short term, in just in a couple of years, the company expects to haul in $10 million revenues per annum, around P546 million, from...
The national government continues to extend its efforts towards digitizing government services in the country to make it more accessible to the public. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Undersecretary Anna Mae Lamentillo said the DICT is “really aiming to digitalize the whole...
In hopes of advancing digital cooperation with foreign territories, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) inked another memorandum of understanding, this time with Singapore. DICT Undersecretary for Public Affairs and Foreign Relations Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo with...
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...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. wants to fast track the digitalization of the National Identification (ID) system that could be used for public and private transactions. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Malacañang said Marcos made the directive...
Mobile wallet GCash has partnered with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the local government of Tagbilaran City for this week's rollout of the Paleng-QR Ph program. The Paleng-QR Ph program of the BSP and DILG seeks to build the...
USAID, the principal US government agency to extend assistance to countries, launched a P1 billion digitalization program that aims to digitally transform 30,000 small micro and medium enterprises (MSMEs) over a five-year period. US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson announced the $18...
