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Assessment of ICT Competency Schemes in the Philippines: Challenges of ASEAN

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Ravenal A. De Jesus
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.sa1.140

Abstract

Information (Computing) Technology and Communications Technology have been converged that formed digital convergence. Since the year 1994 when the Philippines was connected to the internet for the first time[1], digital convergence in the Philippines encountered a number of challenges that include the following but not limited to: availability of computer hardware, availability of computer software, reliability and stability of internet services, and digital literacy of the people. Surprisingly, the number of Filipino engineering practitioners (Professional Engineers, Registered Engineers, and Technicians) registered in the ASEAN Engineering Registry (AER) is actually 2800 compared with 9530 over-all registrants as of year 2022. Divided equally by ten (representing the ten ASEAN Member States), the equal number distribution is 953 which was lower than the number of Filipino registrants. It seemed that the number of Filipino engineering practitioners registered in AER is actually higher than the average number of registered practitioners per ASEAN Member States. On the other hand, not all ICT practitioners were engineers thus ICT Sector (ICT-S) and ICT Enabled Sector (ICT-ES) were emphasized in this paper to delineate the ICT scenario in the Philippines.

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