Tech giant Microsoft said Tuesday it will train 100,000 Philippine women on artificial intelligence technology and cybersecurity.
The joint initiative could help address the Philippines’s problem with disinformation, Microsoft official Mary Snapp said. Meanwhile, Speaker Martin Romualdez on Tuesday lauded the announcement of over $1 billion in investments from high-level US trade andinvestment mission firms, including Microsoft, as a significant vote of confidence in the Philippine economy.
“Under the President’s guidance, the Philippines has embarked on a series of diplomatic and business-oriented initiatives, including his strategic foreign trips and the introduction of the Maharlika Investment Fund, aimed at attracting global investors and cementing our nation’s status as a prime investment destination,” he added.
A 2022 World Bank study revealed that nine out of every 10 students aged 10 in the Philippines struggle to read simple texts. “The shipments are equipped with the documents stating that no particular materials used in the manufacture of apparels has ever used Chinese cotton, specifically the kind sourced from the controversial Uyghur in the Xinjiang region,” BOI officials clarified at the sidelines of the US Trade and Investment Mission at the Fairmont Hotel Tuesday.