Philippines
The Philippine Department of Budget and Management (DBM) launched this week a website that seeks to support the government's drive for transparent and accountable government through participatory budgeting.
Philippine President Simeon Benigno Aquino III announced during the launch of the country's new K-12 basic education program recently that the government is eyeing the use of PC tablets in public schools in lieu of traditional textbooks.
The Medical City is the first tertiary care hospital in the Philippines to use a cloud-based enterprise productivity tool for its operations.
The Philippine Senate has approved on third and final reading the much-awaited Data Privacy Act, which mandates public and private entities to comply with international data security standards and institute measures protect and preserve the integrity, security and confidentiality of personal data they collect.
Huwaei has established its first cloud computing laboratory in the Philippines through a partnership with the Asia Pacific College (APC).
The Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is set to bid out next month a new Information and Communications Technology solution for the country’s land transportation system.
The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Science and Technology Information Institute (STTI) has launched a science and technology search engine and a website that will serve as a one-stop shop for science information in the country.
The Philippine Senate has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to establish the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), a government agency that will focus on the growth and development of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in the country.
When the Philippine Department of Education decided to embark on a computerization project to introduce the concept of an e-Classroom in selected public schools, it voted for a desktop virtualization technology that allows shared computing to cut down hardware costs.
A Philippine website, jointly managed by the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Ateneo School of Government, is making available to the public information on funding for public school facilities.
