{"id":25588,"date":"2014-09-11T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25588"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T03:02:58","slug":"digital-technology-empowers-over-half-a-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/11\/digital-technology-empowers-over-half-a-million-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital technology empowers over half a million people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digital-gadgets-technology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10890\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digital-gadgets-technology-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digital-gadgets-technology-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digital-gadgets-technology.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) as it celebrated its 10th year yesterday with over half a million people empowered digitally.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines, which has over\u00a0 a thousand digital users, and 13 other countries, including Australia, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam joined the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>ADOC project has been working on disadvantaged groups including street children, visually impaired, women and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice G. Quimson, deputy executive director for e-Society of the Department of Science and Technolgy-Information and Communications Technology (DOST-ICTO) said the Philippines was able to establish over 400 digital opportunity centers through ADOC.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment was done in partnership with the Telecenter.org and the DOST-ICTO.<\/p>\n<p>Quimson also said that they are planning to put up more centers around 1,000 more in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>She also noted the importance of ADOC adding that the agency works to empower its target beneficiaries and provide employment for Filipinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) as it celebrated its 10th year yesterday with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7790],"class_list":["post-25588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-digital-technology","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}