Philippine Startup Week 2025 Returns: Scaling Filipino Startups to Global Heights

Get ready for Philippine Startup Week 2025 happening this November 10 to 14 with the theme “Start Local, Go Global!”

Discover how Filipino startups are scaling up for global success and what’s in store at the country’s biggest innovation event.

📍 At the new Philippine Innovation Hub in Marikina. Don’t miss it.

Globe Backs DICT’s Digital Bayanihan in Tawi-Tawi with Stronger Connectivity and Inclusion Efforts

Globe is bringing stronger connectivity and digital opportunities to Tawi-Tawi as it joins the DICT’s Digital Bayanihan led by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. With new cell sites, expanded fiber coverage, and programs that empower communities, Globe is making sure no Filipino is left behind in the digital age.

PSA, DICT, and GCash pilot National ID eVerify integration

GCash partners with PSA and DICT to pilot the National ID eVerify platform, making identity verification faster and more secure.

This collaboration aims to streamline the identity verification process, allowing for faster and more secure customer authentication, and ultimately simplifying the account opening experience for Filipinos.

Data privacy and cybersecurity groups urge DICT, NPC to prepare Filipino consumers, institutions on potential impact of PhilHealth Data Breach

Two advocacy groups on data privacy urge the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the National Privacy Commission (NPC) to warn and prepare Filipino consumers, and institutions that have received PhilHealth member information to deliver their services, on the potential impact of the PhilHealth data breach through a Medusa malware attack discovered last September 22.

DIGeCONOMY 2022 pushes customer-first agenda to bolster PH digital economic growth

Despite operational challenges, strict lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened the Philippines’ digital economy performance in the past year. According to the e-Conomy SEA 2021 Report, the country is expected to have a 93% year-on-year surge in gross merchandise volume (GMV). 

Microsoft joins DICT in Empowering the Filipino Through Digital Transformation at National ICT Summit 2018 in Davao City

National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Summit was recently held in Davao City. The summit's 2018 theme “Empowering the Filipino through Digital Transformation” is a culminating event of a month-long celebration of ICT in the Philippines.