March 31, 2017 Signing Memorandum of Cooperation in Field of ICT between MIC and Department of Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines

 Sanae Takaichi, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, and Rodolfo A. Salalima, Secretary for Information and Communications Technology of the Government of the Philippines, who was invited to Japan by MIC, signed today a memorandum of cooperation in the field of ICT.
Jiro Akama, State Minister for Information and Communications, talked with Secretary Salalima on March 30. They confirmed that MIC and Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) would further promote the cooperation between both countries in the field of ICT.
The memorandum will facilitate cooperation on a wide range of ICT areas including digital terrestrial television broadcasting, broadband infrastructure, disaster management and cybersecurity (See the attachment for the outline of the memorandum PDF).

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