THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) will allocate P72.08 billion in next year’s national budget to accelerate digital transformation across various government agencies and improve bureaucratic efficiency. This, as the agency also gave the cybersecurity budget a whopping 315- percent increase to P1.
THE Department of Budget and Management will allocate P72.08 billion in next year’s national budget to accelerate digital transformation across various government agencies and improve bureaucratic efficiency.
This allocation is 11.6-percent higher than the P64.6 billion set aside in the national budget this year. Another initiative to improve project oversight and ensure the use of public funds is the revival of Project DIME , which uses technologies such as satellites, drones and geotagging to monitor the status of government projects and compare fund utilization with actual project completion.
The DBM also increased the budget for cybersecurity to P1.36 billion in 2025, up by 315 percent from the current year’s P330 million to ensure the safe and seamless implementation of the government’s digitalization efforts.
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