ICT

In spite of the current controversy surrounding the LTO and its technology partner, Stradcom, drivers’ licenses continue to be renewed in Land Transportation Offices located in malls and other public places. NBI clearances, prior to the current situation, were also issued in many satellite facilities around the country. Similarly if one needed an authenticated birth…

By the time this article is published, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) is already abolished. It was last June while I was meeting with some heads of business associations and foreign firms in the country when one of the attendees, an official from the Office of the President, disclosed that the CICT…

Downgrading the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) to a mere office could imperil the country’s gains in the IT-business process outsourcing industry, Sen. Edgardo Angara said on Monday. Angara added his voice to the clamor of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) to restore the agency to its former status.

MANILA, Philippines — A group of local technology companies has called on the government to reconsider its plan to abolish the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and transfer its functions to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

(Ric Saludo’s colleague Marishka Noelle M. Cabrera contributed today’s column.) FOR the non-nerd, computer hacking is a nuisance at worst, perpetrated by losers with nothing else to do but wreak havoc in cyberspace just for kicks. But the fun is getting serious now, with hackers engineering security breaches in global corporations and institutions and exposing…

MANILA, Philippines – Crimes and complaints involving the popular social networking site Facebook are rising this year, the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Facebook has figured in crime news lately as some victims reportedly met their assailants on the popular social networking site. But an information technology (IT) expert said Facebook is not the only playground of bad elements. Criminals are everywhere.

MELBOURNE–IT Services spent within the Asia-Pacific region will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% during the next four years to hit US$205 billion by 2015, predicts Ovum.

Higher tablet demand and lower Netbook sales are likely to take a greater bite out of the PC market this year than expected, according to data released today by Gartner.

MANILA, Philippines – We live in a world of rapidly changing media and technology, a world where kids are far more tech-savvy than their parents are and where social media can be equally harmful as it is beneficial. And with sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, it has become even harder for parents to…

MANILA, Philippines – Last month ended with the Philippines as the seventh country with the biggest number of user accounts in the social networking service Facebook, based on data gathered by Socialbakers.com, one of the biggest Facebook statistics portals in the world.

PARIS: Mobile phone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use texting and hands-free devices to reduce exposure, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer experts said.

Takeaway: It’s easy to get caught up in the implementation details of a Web site design project and lose sight of the hands-on user perspective. Calvin Sun airs a few user experience grievances that can alienate site visitors — permanently.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has gone “techie” to facilitate employment and make workers aware of all the programs and services available to them.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign businessmen are urging the Aquino administration to certify the proposed bill on the creation of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies as priority legislative measure this would be the vehicle to generate $23 billion revenues and create 1.5 million jobs by 2016.

Little has been known about the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), created in 2004 by Executive Order No. 269 as the primary policy, planning, coordinating, implementing, regulating and administrative entity of the government’s executive branch for Philippine ICT development.

Do business owners have the right to monitor employee’s internet or phone usage?

AT least 60 percent of working Filipinos do not have valid identification cards (IDs), which hamper their access to social services, a lawmaker said Saturday. Rep. Pedro Romualdo of the Lone District of Camiguin disclosed that Filipinos in the workforce who do not have proper IDs include those who are working in the underground economy,…

With the rapid technological advances seen in recent years, Sen. Edgardo Angara urged the government to integrate computer lessons into the basic curriculum of all public and private schools.

THE COMMITTEES on information and communications technology and government reorganization of the House of Representatives have jointly approved a bill that seeks to form the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), a move business chambers have been pushing to further boost the industry.

MANILA, Philippines – Globe Telecom has expanded its investment in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for education with the creation of the Global Filipino Schools (GFS) program, a competency-building initiative to help students, teachers and school heads in select public high schools nationwide.

SINGAPORE — The Philippine software industry has been ranked third in Southeast Asia in terms of “maturity” although the sector, along with its counterparts in most countries in the region, stood at the bottom of a yearly industry index covering 52 countries.

LAST WEEK, donations in the millions of pesos were announced for a computer and Internet literacy program. It could just be another fund-raising activity if not for the fact that almost half of the donors were local government units — some representing the remotest parts of Mindanao with several topping the pledges made by multinational…

MANILA, Philippines –  The information and communications technology (ICT) industry helps government bring more jobs and opportunities to Filipinos whose lives also improve with more access to technology, President Aquino said at the formal opening of an industry-led ICT exhibition in Pasay City last Thursday.

I DON’T do Facebook. I will not be your “friend,” and I will certainly not sign up for a Facebook account simply “to connect” with anyone. Nor will I put the little “f” logo and a link back to Facebook anywhere on my blog.

MANILA, Philippines – The growth prospects for the Philippines is expected to go on an upward trend with the gradual increase in demand for electronics and engineering products and services for a global market.

As chairman of the Zuellig Family Foundation I hosted the annual Health Outlook Forum last month. One of the facilitators of the break out session on “ICT in Health” was Dr. Emmanuel C. Lallana, CEO of ideacorp. Secretary Ona considered this topic one of the most significant items he would focus on during his incumbency.…

MANILA, Philippines—Filipinos spend more than an hour each day on their social networks, talking to “friends” they are not even close to and reading updates that they don’t consider all that important or relevant.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is fine-tuning its code of conduct for state workers, including setting guidelines for social networking. Malacañang’s announcement came after the disparaging tweets by Assistant Secretary Mai Mislang about the wine served for President Aquino’s toast with Vietnamese President Nguyen Ming Triet. Mislang had also posted her unflattering opinion of Vietnamese…

Half a billion people can’t be wrong. It is mind-boggling that after a mere six years of launching the social networking site, Facebook has over 500 million users. For many, it is a useful tool for keeping in touch with friends all over the globe, perhaps even making new ones, and is another instance of…