DICT TARGETS NATIONAL DIGITAL ID RELEASE BY YEAR END, SEEKS ADD’L BUDGET TO GO AFTER CYBER SCAMMERS
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) targets to deploy national digital identifications (IDs) by the end of the year following President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s instruction to fast track its issuance after several delays. In a press briefing in Malacañang on Wednesday, DICT Secretary Ivan Uy said that, like the rest of the…