The pandemic has forced us to take the digital leap. I have to say that we Filipinos, resilient as we are, have embraced technology, innovation, and digitalization. The numbers bear this out. In the financial sector, over four million digital accounts were opened at the onset of the community quarantine to facilitate digital payments and e-commerce transactions.
More than two years since the onset of the pandemic, remote work and school arrangements, contactless payments, online marketplace, and blockchain, have become commonplace. Further into the future, we can expect a drastic change in our digital ecosystem with the recent developments on an old concept—the metaverse.