{"id":89379,"date":"2019-04-09T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dti-ph-can-become-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse"},"modified":"2019-04-09T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T04:22:24","slug":"dti-ph-can-become-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dti-ph-can-become-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse","title":{"rendered":"DTI: PH can become artificial intelligence powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dti-ph-can-become-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said the DTI would soon launch an initiative to train the country\u2019s IT and engineering graduates to create AI solutions for the global marketplace.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Instead of fearing artificial intelligence (AI), a supposed threat to the country\u2019s thriving business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the Philippines can position itself as a global AI hub, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent chance interview, Lopez said the Department of Trade and Industry would soon launch an initiative to train the country\u2019s IT and engineering graduates to create AI solutions for the global marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said the government could team up with successful Filipino technopreneur Dado Banatao to upgrade the skills of the country\u2019s IT, science and engineering graduates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.inquirer.net\/268370\/dti-ph-can-become-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said the DTI would soon launch an initiative to train the country\u2019s IT and engineering graduates to create AI solutions for the global marketplace. Instead of fearing artificial intelligence (AI), a supposed threat to the country\u2019s thriving business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the Philippines can position itself as a global AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}