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Digital Governance Awardees for 2020
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), through its ICT Industry Development Bureau (IIDB), in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) implemented the Digital Governance Awards (DGA) 2020. The DGA is an annual search for best practices of Local Government Units (LGUs) in […]
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Ubiquity Reaches 7 in Bacolod City
One of my happy moments as a a digital jobs advocate for the countryside was the coming of Ubiquity Global Services (UGS), is a multinational services organization offering customer management solutions, risk management operations and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions based in New York City. Founded in 2012, Ubiquity provides outsourcing services including call centers, digital correspondence services, knowledge process […]
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VISAYAS REGIONS LEVERAGE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AS THE PHILIPPINES’ GROWTH CENTERS
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 9TH VISAYAS ICT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Digital leaders in the Visayas came together last month from all three regions, Western Visayas (Region VI), Central Visayas (Region VII) and Eastern Visayas (Region VIII), to reinforce collaboration and commitment to generate thousands more of jobs and opportunities enabled by information and communications technology (ICT). In […]
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Two Philippine teams are finalists in NASA global space data competition for COVID-19
Two teams from the Philippines, GiveSight and World MAQI, are selected by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as global finalists for the all-virtual Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon held last June 23-29. With 4,300+ participants from 132 countries and territories, […]
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Team Pilipinas: 19 Filipinos to Compete in 11 Sports Discipline in the Tokyo Olympics
The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the Olympiad, was the first international Olympic games held in Athens, Greece from April 6 to 15, 1896. The Philippines first competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1924 in Paris as the first country to compete in Southeast Asia. The Philippines first participated at the Winter […]
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Lessons I learned from my Coleos
It takes a lot of patience to care for plants, just like for people. But if you love doing it, then you will enjoy every minute. In life, when our work and our responsibilities become part of our passion and mission, they become bearable, and at best, they breathe more life to what would seemingly be […]
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9 Digital cities launch 5-year roadmaps
Nine of thirty one cities ascribed as “digital cities” June of last year in 25 different locations successfully launched their five-year roadmaps last Monday, June 28. In a virtual ceremony organized by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the ICT stakeholders of Balanga, Batangas, General Santos, Iligan, Legazpi, Puerto Proncesa, Taytay Rizal, Tuguegarao, […]
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THE BATTLE OF MACTAN 500 YEARS AGO
Written below is an excerpt from the historical account written by Antonio Pigafetta about the Battle of Mactan, Philippines on April 26 and 27, 1521. Source: The First Voyage Round the World by Antonio Pigafetta, translated by Lord Stanley of Alderley Friday, the 26th of April, Zula, who was one of the principal men or […]