Over 10,000 public officials and students across the Philippines participated in Microsoft Philippines’ largest-ever public sector cloud summit to date, “Asenso Pilipinas: Building Digital Resilience”.
Today’s gathering aimed to enable stakeholders across the Philippine government and broader public sector to accelerate digital transformation on a national scale. These support the Philippine government’s ambitions to reignite economic growth in 2021 and beyond and return the Philippines to the ranks of high growth developing economies.
Today’s summit forms a core service offering from Microsoft Philippines’ “Para sa Bayan” initiative. “Para sa Bayan” is a nationwide, holistic series of programs, technology interventions, and skilling efforts to empower stakeholders across the Philippine government, public and private sectors.
Four core strategies drive the Para sa Bayan program: stimulate digital transformation; build coalitions for responsible innovation; close the skills gap to enhance employability; and create societal impact sustainability. The program was built to support and empower the different national digital initiatives of the government and strengthen the Philippines as a digital nation–ready to meet the challenges and capitalize upon the opportunities that will become available for post Covid-19 pandemic governance.
