The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is calling for entries to this year’s Digital Governance Awards (DGA). Photo from DICT's Facebook page The DGA is an annual search for best practices in local government units in utilizing information and communications technology...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) deployed free Internet access, through its Free Wi-Fi for All program, to evacuees in Nasugbu, Batangas affected by the Taal Volcano unrest. Photo from Department of Information and Communications Technology - Luzon Cluster 2...
The rollout of additional open access fiber optic cables in the Philippines will lower internet rates and improve access by yearend. Already, Philippines Fiber Optic Cable Network (PFOCN), the local subsidiary of Singapore-based HyalRoute Group, invested US$3 billion for a 60,000-kilometer fiber...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the University of the Philippines (UP) entered into an agreement for the implementation of the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) Development Program. Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) The...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) have joined forces to strengthen vessel monitoring capability in Sipaca Point, Misamis Oriental. In a statement on Tuesday, June 29, the DICT Region 10 has offered its facility tower and...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has warned anew against persons representing themselves as DICT officials and personnel to ask for donations from private companies. “We have received several reports that certain individuals representing themselves as officials...
Internet connectivity in the country may soon improve as internet service providers (ISPs) are expected to ramp up their services, an official of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said Monday, June 21. Department of Information and Communications Technology DICT...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has expressed confidence that Internet speeds in the country will further improve. Department of Information and Communications Technology DICT Undersecretary Emmanuel Rey Caintic said Monday, June 21, that Filipinos will have much...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has partnered with the Microsoft Corporation for the conduct of a nationwide upskilling initiative to empower government employees. Department of Information and Communications Technology The DICT said the initiative “provides an...
The Philippines’ average Internet speed continues to improve as the country further climbed the global internet speed rankings, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). DICT Based on the latest report of global Internet speed monitoring firm Ookla...
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, June 11, appealed to telecommunication companies, local government units, as well as homeowners associations to speed up the construction of necessary infrastructure to provide internet access, especially in areas with weak or without signals. Senator Grace Poe (Senate...
A vaccine passport may just be the Filipinos' ticket to a return to normal life. Workers wait for their vaccination inside SM Manila cinema that has been converted into a COVID-19 vaccination site on June 8, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/ Manila Bulletin) The government has started working on the issuance of...
