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Published December 21, 2020, 6:47 AM
With the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation has become an urgent solution and necessary in the recovery of a nation. Different challenges arise and weaknesses were pinpointed during these difficult times, and with Cisco’s commitment to build a strong foundation, it enabled solutions that will help in the journey of a nation towards an inclusive digital future by empowering crucial actors with technology and expertise necessary to enact their plans and policies.
Cisco, a worldwide leader in technology, launched UGNAYAN 2030, a collaboration framework with government leaders, industry, and academia aimed at building greater digital resilience by unlocking the value of digitization in the Philippines. UGNAYAN 2030 is part of Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program.
UGNAYAN 2030 is part of Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program.
Karrie Ilagan, Managing Director of Cisco Philippines
Strategically aligned with the national digital agenda of the Philippines, UGNAYAN 2030 will launch key digitization initiatives to boost the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), create jobs, and promote innovation as well as next-generation skills development.
Cisco’s CDA team collaborates with national and state governments worldwide to accelerate their national digitization agendas.
With UGNAYAN 2030, Cisco is creating a platform on which existing, ongoing, and upcoming ICT-related plans can be enacted.
While “There’s a lot of talk about digital transformation this year, there are many missing pieces before we even begin to consider ourselves digitally transformed,” says Karrie Ilagan, Managing Director of Cisco Philippines.
Indonesia has stepped up efforts to accelerate 5G transformation in order to enter the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), marked by automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and processes.
“The key characteristics of the fourth industrial revolution are going to be mobile internet connectivity, sensors, artificial intelligence as well as machine learning. These are the key characteristics that are going to revolutionize the entire industry,” Cisco ASEAN managing director and services provider Dharmesh Malhotra said during a webinar themed 5G and the future of tech in Indonesia hosted by
The Jakarta Post.
“That is going to be generating a significant amount of data as we move forward, and we re all going to actually analyze that data and take the benefit of data in our human lives.