DESPITE the Philippines being one of the countries with most Facebook users in 2011, a Philippine Statistical Authority (PSA)-National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) executive said that the Philippines still lags behind in terms of information and communications technology (ICT) among its neighboring countries.

In a report, PSA-NSCB Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert said that the country is at the bottom half of the ICT Development Index (IDI) released in 2012, which has “not improved” despite Filipinos’ active social media presence with 93.9 percent penetration rate in Popular social media site Facebook.

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