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...
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...
TECH4GOOD Monchito B. Ibrahim, former DICT Undersecretary During the last three weeks, a breakthrough innovation suddenly popped out of nowhere to create excitement in the technology space which has been relatively dull since the start of 2022 where mass layoffs, downward spiraling stock prices,...
TECH4GOOD Monchito B. Ibrahim, former DICT Undersecretary Today, wars can be started using a computer mouse instead of bullets. That is the gist of the message of DICT Secretary Ivan John Uy during the recent launch of the Philippine National Cybersecurity Talent Workforce Assessment Report. “It...
TECH4GOOD Monchito B. Ibrahim, former DICT Undersecretary Several months back, I featured in this column the correlation between having the right skills for its workforce and the country’s global competitiveness and how having an effective skills development program will position it to take...
