TONY MAGHIRANG
Last month, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) celebrated a quarter century of the internet in the country by highlighting significant developments and looking forward to level up the Filipino experience in the next 25 years. Themed “Unlock the Paths of the Future: 25 Years of Internet in the Philippines,” the event gave due recognition to recent government ICT projects like Pipol Konek, National Broadband and GovNet. The talks from public and private resource persons underscored the benefits of a faster Internet access as well as a vision to make the Internet “vanish” to make it blend into the background of everyday life.