Tech news from The Philippines in April 2023 covered items spanning the government’s use of artificial intelligence to create policy drafts, automated toll-road payments using fintech integration, reports on various aspects of the Philippines’ sovereignty over much of the South China Sea, and more.
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RAND Corp: Political Geography of the South China Sea disputes
- Philippines: Advance gains $16M pre-A with salary-on-demand platform, and steps into Vietnam market with acquisition of BravoHR, diversifying beyond core employee focus
- Philippines: Limitless Lab launches GreatGov GPT, an AI tool to help officials ‘generate policy drafts and ideas…memoranda, bills, ordinances, guidelines, and terms of references’
- Philippines: IdeaSpace Foundation accelerator venture capital arm, IdeaSpace Investments, appointed as a Co-Investment Partner of Philippine gov’t Startup Venture Fund
The Escalating Global Risk Environment for Submarine Cables
- Philippines: Metro Pacific Tollways partners Brankas fintech to provide automated toll road e-wallet reloading via bank account integration
- Philippines: BayaniPay fintech launches new feature allowing overseas Filipino workers to directly pay real estate developers for property investments
- Philippines: Scale launches to support 15 selected startups, a program from Management Ass’n in partnership with PwC, QBO Innovation Hub and others
CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative – South China Sea and beyond
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