To create a safer online environment for Filipinos, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) are intensifying their campaign against the sale of illegal products on online platforms and social media. This initiative, led by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s directive to ensure cyberspace safety, is a top priority for the DICT. According to DICT Secretary Henry Aguda, this effort requires a “digital bayanihan” or community…
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The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will be reevaluating the agency’s Free Wi-Fi Program, this was announced on DICT website and social media channels. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), they are overhauling its Free Wi-Fi Program to improve efficiency and sustainability, driven by President Marcos’s directives, basically to cut the current program’s ₱6.5 billion annual cost for 7,000 locations with 16,251 Free Wi-Fi Sites. One of the option that the…
DICT's official statement!
PhilHealth issue another “Urgent Notice to the Public” in connection to the Cyberattack last Sept 22.
This is an "Urgent Notice to the Public!"
DICT has spoken!
There are now 44,298,445 subscribers registered as per DICT.
DICT Welcomes Starlink To PH
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is set to launch the sixth (6th) Philippine Startup Challenge 2021 (PSC 2021) this September. The event is an annual startup competition started in 2016 which aims to encourage and support Filipinos to create innovative and relevant ICT products and services that may develop into viable business ventures and potentially solve social problems. “Through this initiative, we hope to promote the entrepreneurial spirit among Filipinos that will…
Prepaid load will now have a one year validity from the date it was loaded to your mobile phone, this was announced by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in a Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) amends the previous version of NTC’s Memorandum Circular No. 03-07-2009 Guidelines on Prepaid Loads. The JMC states that prepaid loads,…