Marcos: PH needs better digital links, cybersecurity

By Charles Dantes

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stressed the need to boost the country’s digital connectivity and cybersecurity infrastructure to catch up with its Asian peers.

The President recently held a meeting with executives of satellite operator Kacific Broadband Satellites to discuss the need to enhance the Philippines’ technological capabilities.

During the meeting, the President and Kacific discussed the latter’s forthcoming launching of its satellite project and the ways to use the project in the long run.

“It’s just an improvement on what we have now. Make it more permanent. But this is not, this is on [the] long term. We have to keep up. We are always looking for additional capability when it comes to all these communications, especially with the problems of cyber security,” the President said.

The President also directed the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to work with Kacific to improve digital connectivity in the Philippines.

Mr. Marcos issued the directive to