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As Philippine cities implement smart city initiatives, data security and privacy issues have become major challenges that require effective countermea..

Technologies and systems should be interoperable to enable Philippine cities to implement smart city initiatives

"It is high time for Philippine cities to evolve as smart cities," Cauayan City Mayor Bernard Faustino Dy said

The Philippines needs to identify and develop key areas in its services sector to succeed in trade negotiations

The Philippines' services trade negotiations should be consolidated in one agency to ensure coherence and consistency in formulating its negotiating p..

There is a need to improve the country's governance structure for services trade negotiations

The level of fiscal readiness and financial capacity of local government units (LGUs) should be strengthened to achieve administrative and political a..

Let local government units (LGUs) achieve fiscal and local autonomy and give them their just share to ensure fiscal viability, LPP executive director ..

Digital adoption, particularly the use of financial technology (FinTech), has played a key role in the provision of financial services in the Philippi..

“Technology, for all its promise, is useless if no one can use and adopt it properly.”This was emphasized by Fintech Philippines Associati..

Startups in the Philippines [should] “unlock money from more international investors” for a significant pre-seed funding. This was ac..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA..

There should be a more inclusive response to the needs of the country’s senior citizens.This was emphasized by Maricel Deloria, assistant bureau..

There should be a reliable database of senior citizens to improve service delivery to the elderly. This was one of the key points raised by Natio..

The government’s social pension program (SocPen) provides significant improvements in the lives of pensioners, especially if the coverage is inc..