Culture as an Economic Resource
THE SENATE’S Finance Committee recently had a hearing on the 2021 budgets of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and its...
The 2020 Human Capital Index Report
PEOPLE are a nation’s key resource. The healthier, better-educated and empowered a population is, the more likely a nation will be prosperous and developed. This...
Bridging the digital skills divide
OUR UNDERSTANDING of the digital world defines how we access it. The less we understand how it works and what’s possible within it, the...
Digital payment: safety, efficiency in the next normal
A RECENT article in The Economist focused on one of the game-changing effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic — the need to digitize government...
Bayanihan 2 — keeping the economy going
THE COVID-19 pandemic, undoubtedly, is a historical and global turning point. The term “new normal,” in fact, is a telling indicator of just how...
Bayanihan 2: Strengthening our health response against COVID-19
AS THIS goes to print, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the country is most likely to have breached the 200,000 mark already —...
Leaving big cities — part of the new normal?
A YOUNG couple in London was interviewed in a recent CNN Business article about their decision to move out of the city — something...
Designing apps to fight COVID-19
WITH ALL that has been happening here in our country, it easy to overlook good news. Amid the pandemic, it would be far from...
What must be done about PhilHealth
IT WAS only last year that the fraudulent claims of WellMed Dialysis & Laboratory Center Corp. came to a head with the National Bureau...
Encouraging digital careers
THE COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our society, especially our employment and economic realities. As of the April 2020 Labor Force Survey...