The Philippines’ technology news in December: The ‘digital peso’ CBDC project; China’s Huawei launches public cloud in The Philippines; the AgriConnect app’s bid to alert farmers to crop issues; YUME music tech startup’s support for Filipino artists; and more.
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- Philippines: What is Project Agila, the Philippines central bank digital peso pilot project? Here’s an explainer from Rappler / full item
- Philippines: Central bank and partners have completed the testing phase for Project Agila, looking at wholesale central bank digital currency in large-value payments / full item
- Philippines: Department of Science & Tech launches Program PROPEL to provide a range of support and development services to Filipino innovators from startup to scaling-up / full item
- Philippines: Huawei Cloud launches its first public cloud availability zones in the country, offering over 100 cloud computing services / full item
- Philippines: An intro to AgriConnect, national winner of the Red Bull Basement competition, AI-driven app that alerts farmers to crop threats to help manage risks / full item
- Meet YUME, music-tech startup providing musicians with royalties management, publishing, streaming and more, with listeners rewarded for support / full item
- Australia: Austrade opens EOIs for firms in AI, cybersec and blockchain for upcoming visit to the Philippines in February 2025, looking to boost collaboration and business growth / full item
- Dubai’s Damac Group unveils plan to invest $3BN to build data centers across Southeast Asia, seeing the region as a future hub for AI and cloud services / full item
- ADB and Mastercard Impact Fund ink MOU to provide financing for women-led or -owned MSMEs in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam / full item
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- Taiwan is in talks with Amazon around use of Project Kuiper satellite system for emergency communications; and potentially other providers as additional redundancy…
- Australia: James Cook University instals Starlink on several remote sites, and student accommodation, in Queensland, providing reliable internet for education access…
- UN Agency for Digital Tech is partnering Int’l Telecommunication Union and Int’l Cable Protection Committee to create Int’l Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience…
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