THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two other government agencies to prepare the country’s labor sector for future production requirements in the manufacturing industry in light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).

In a statement on Monday, the DTI said the first MoU signed by DTI, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), formally included the latter two agencies in the expanded MoU between government agencies (i.e., Department of Science and Technology or DoST, National Economic and Development Authority or NEDA, Department of Education or DepEd, Commission on Higher Education or CHED, Department of Information and Communications Technology or DICT, and Department of Agriculture or DA) signed last year.

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