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Senator Christopher "Bong" Go (File photo) MANILA - Senator Christopher "Bong" Go pushed for the passage of the E-Governance Bill, saying digitalization of government services has become essential. This, as the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) study showed that losses in Filipino workers' wages and productivity because of Covid-19 have been estimated to reach as much as PHP2.3 trillion during their lifetime. "I have a pending bill in the Senate, the proposed E-Governance Act that I filed on my first year as a Senator. It can serve partly as a blueprint and model on how we transform many processes into digitalized form," Go said in a news release on Friday. The bill seeks to establish an integrated, interconnected, and interoperable information and resource-sharing communications network in government for the speedy delivery of public services. Apart from the government network, the bill likewise provides for the establishment of an i