MANILA, Philippines — Undersecretary Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) tackled the digital gender gap as she kicked off the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) International Women Committee's (IWC) Keynote Speaker Series for this year. Lamentillo, who serves as DICT's Undersecretary for Public Affairs and Foreign Relations, highlighted that 32 countries, including the Philippines, have missed out on USD 1 trillion in GDP due to the exclusion of women from the digital world.

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