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October 2, 2024

2025 DICT budget tackled: Sen. Win Gatchalian presides over the Finance Subcommittee E hearing on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, on the proposed 2025 budget of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and its attached agencies. Under the 2025 National Expenditure Program, the DICT was allotted P10.04 billion; the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center was allotted P487 million; National Privacy Commission, P371.8 million; and, National Telecommunication Commission, P578 million. “We’re very interested on how the country is moving into the digital space as well as addressing the digital divide in our country. The DICT was specially made to make sure that digitalization and the digital needs of our country is being addressed especially by our constituents,” Gatchalian said in his opening statement. (Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau)

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