After President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. pushed for the livestreaming of the budget hearings at the bicameral level, the secretary at the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) now wants to take budget transparency a step further and keep the recordings using blockchain technology. This way, said DICT chief Henry Aguda, any amendments on the proposed 2026 national budget would be stored in a decentralized “immutable” ledger to be made available to the public. “It’s not enough that we livecast (the hearings) on Facebook or (other platforms). What we need to do is to put them on a blockchain,” Aguda […]... Keep on reading: DICT wants livestream of budget hearings secured via blockchain