Recognizing the opportunities and challenges that technology, especially artificial intelligence, brings to the education sector, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 21, proposed three critical actions that must be taken to ensure educators and learners harness...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, September 18 said the Executive department’s multiple attempts to explain the controversial confidential funds that were transferred from the Office of the President (OP) to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) last year are raising more questions about its...
Clarita Carlos (Facebook) Former national security adviser Clarita Carlos has floated the possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to help government in its anti-poverty or poverty-alleviation efforts. "Can AI sift thru ALL our attempts to solve...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, September 14, shot back against Vice President Sara Duterte saying she doesn’t need her respect, only her response to questions on her office’s use of confidential funds in 2022. Hontiveros made this response after the vice president singled...
P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon (X) P3PWD Party-list nominee and proud kakampink Rowena Guanzon says she doesn't have intelligence funds, only sheer intelligence. This was Guanzon's tongue-in-cheek pronouncement in an X post Wednesday, Sept....
Opposition senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, September 11 shot back at Vice President Sara Duterte for bragging that critics were unable to support their “dirty imagination” when they questioned the confidential expenses in 2022 of the Office of the Vice President which was not provided under...
The rapid progression in the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) can no longer be denied or ignored, and Philippine corporations will have to grab this by the horns and turn it into an opportunity or be left behind. Dr. Sanjay Sarma is CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia...
The Senate will push for a higher intelligence funds for all government agencies that are mandated to defend the country’s sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea, Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said. Zubiri said this includes the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Saturday, Sept. 9, that the Senate Oversight Committee on confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) is planning to review the memorandum circular on CIFs to come up with a more clean-cut set of guidelines on its utilization. Zubiri was referring to the...
The Senate Committee on Finance has approved the proposed budgets of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and the National Security Agency for next year. NICA has a proposed budget of P1.432-billion under the National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024, higher than its...
The Senate on Wednesday, September 6 convened the select oversight hearing on the confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), programs and activities in a bid to address questions and criticisms regarding the huge amount of CIF allocations given to key government agencies under the proposed...
Baguio lone district Rep. Mark Go (Facebook) Educator-turned-Baguio Congressman Mark Go couldn't hide his excitement over the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) intention to develop the Philippines' own version of the popular artificial...
