REUTERS CYBERSECURITY is increasingly being viewed by C-level executives as a means of ensuring business continuity during the pandemic, after the initial rush to ensure that systems were robust enough to accommodate work-from-home (WFH) arrangements, Unisys Corp. said. “While there is a need to quickly adapt to a work-from-home strategy, there is this need to […]
THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said it hopes to work more closely with stakeholders in achieving the Philippines’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It said in a statement Thursday that it organized a chamber for both government and non-government SDG stakeholders to more efficiently deploy resources. “This chamber will serve as a platform for […]
PHILSTAR THE National Privacy Commission (NPC) said in a statement that contact-tracing organizations must not collect unnecessary information in their forms, such as signatures. In a statement Thursday, an NPC lawyer, Stephen John Duma of the commission’s Compliance and Monitoring office, said: “In every aspect of the data processing cycle, activities must observe the basic […]
PIA.GOV.PH THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it approved Thursday a $500-million (P24.3 billion) standby line providing the Philippines quick access to emergency funds in the event of calamities. The bank said access to the funds under the Disaster Resilience Improvement Program is triggered by a state of calamity. The ADB said the Philippines is […]
Workers sort fish on a boat in Tan Quang harbor in Quang Nam province, Vietnam, on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Fishermen are on the front lines of Asia’s most complex territorial dispute, which involves six claimants and outside powers like the U.S. with an interest in protecting a waterway that carries more than $3 trillion […]
SMOKE from California wildfires hangs over the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco, California, US, on Sept. 9. Powerful, dry winds are sweeping across Northern California for a third day, driving up the risk of wildfires in a region that’s been battered by heat waves, freak lightning storms and dangerously poor air […]
SEOUL — A South Korean company has invented a battery-powered filtered face mask designed to reduce annoying problems associated with conventional designs, such as breathing difficulties and fogged-up glasses. LG Electronics’ PuriCare Wearable, which comes in one size and weighs as much as a pair of ski goggles, features two fans and high-efficiency particle air […]
By Diwa C. Guinigundo Bangko Sentral Governor Ben Diokno announced that starting Sept. 18, the BSP will offer P20 billion ($411 million) worth of 28-day bills to the market. This is a milestone. We presume that the BSP and the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) coordinated closely to assiduously define the parameters of […]
By Luis V. Teodoro As if to mock not only the country and the people Ferdinand Marcos and his civilian and military thugs pillaged and victimized but also the very same government of which they’re supposed to be a part, the House of Representatives passed a bill declaring Sept. 11, 2020 as “President […]
By Kristine Romano and Oleg Timchenko IN THESE uncertain times, COVID-19 has fueled an urgency for leaders to rapidly adopt data analytics to protect their people and keep pace with changing consumer demands. Geospatial data, which focuses on location intelligence, is quickly emerging as an important tool. By layering in data with components […]