Published July 9, 2021, 11:30 AM Digital cities outside Metro Manila aim to create over a hundred thousand local jobs by 2025. So far, of the 31 cities launched under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)’s Digital Cities Program, nine have completed their five-year roadmaps. 18062 These include Balanga, Batangas, General Santos, Iligan, Legazpi, Puerto Proncesa, Taytay Rizal, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga. The DICT’s Digital Cities Program identified 25 locations and 31 cities as ideal sites for information technology business process management (IT-BPM) companies outside of Metro Manila. The cities were identified based on four major metrics – talent, business enviroment, infrastructure and cost of doing business.