PLDT Joins Pro-Poor Digital Alliance

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On its 11th year of partnership, PLDT and Go Negosyo will now work on building a nation of digital entrepreneurs who will have access to a wider market through stronger connectivity as PLDT joins the Angat Lahat sa Digital Alliance, an initiative of Go Negosyo together with different digital platforms which will help promote digitalization of micro and small entrepreneurs.


Last June 10, 2019, Go Negosyo reinforces its long-time partnership with PLDT, one of the staunch supporters in the entrepreneurship advocacy. Since 2008, PLDT and Go Negosyo have been providing mentorship, entrepreneurship programs, and business solutions for micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs.


Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder Joey Concepcion shares, “Go Negosyo is fortunate to have PLDT as one of our greatest supporters in the entrepreneurship advocacy. Ever since our early years, we have partnered with PLDT in providing our micro and small entrepreneurs mentorship, and now in this digital age, PLDT equips our MSMEs with better connectivity and business solutions that will enable them to reach wider market. We encourage all MSMEs to maximize digitalization which democratizes the ecosystem for all products and services, making it more inclusive for everyone.”

PLDT Chairman and CEO Manny Pangilinan also express support to the alliance and this partnership that will create a more inclusive digital environment for micro and small entrepreneurs.

Also during the same engagement, Concepcion and Pangilinan met with the members of the Angat Lahat sa Digital Alliance and business organizations. This opened up a discussion on how to empower more entrepreneurs in the digital space. PLDT ensures to support initiatives of Go Negosyo in helping MSMEs adapt to the transformation in the digital space.

This meeting is part of a series of meetings of the digital alliance in order to create programs for MSMEs.

The Complete Guide To Purchasing Rental Car Insurance

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Car rental agency is also known as car hire or hire car agency. They are agencies that allow individuals or corporate bodies to rent automobiles for a short while, usually a few hours, days or even weeks. Basically, they render assistance to people that do not have a vehicle, or for whatever reason have a need for a car to carry out an assignment. 

Car insurance, on the other hand, is a platform that offers financial protection on the event bodily injuries or physical damages caused by a traffic accident, alongside other financial responsibilities that may result from such collision. Sponsored post.

In a case where you do not have your own personal auto insurance policy, you may need to opt or apply for rental car insurance. When dealing with a car rental insurance process there is a need for you to carry out proper research to avoid car hire excess insurance. Rental insurance claim covers events like:

Bodily injury

Smoke damage

Fire and lighting

Explosion

Theft

Damage caused by electrical appliances

Weight from falling objects

Damage caused by other vehicles

Wild windstorm damage etc.

A number of insurance policies have a reasonable level of liability coverage; therefore you tend to get a level of refunds in an event of getting sued for damages on the vehicle or bodily injury. They also make payments for the benefactor on legal expenses as well as a court judgment, to the extent to which the insurance policy covers.

Events That Are Not Covered By Rental Insurance Policies

It is very vital that you know that your rental insurance policy may not cover you on a number of events. Some of such uncommon events are an earthquake, flooding, tornadoes, hurricane, and other natural disasters that are quite unavoidable.

Why Do You Need Rental Car Insurance?

Rental car insurance can be a little bit costly. However, not having it can be more costly. Here are some reasons why you may need rental car insurance:

Most states compulsorily require that you have a car insurance policy, whether rental or not.

If you, unfortunately, get involved in a car accident, it could totally distort all of your current financial standings.

The rental agency will also want you to have an insurance policy to cover some level of risk on contingency.

Major Coverage Area of a Car Rental Insurance Policy

There are usually four major types of insurance coverage available when a car is being rented:

Loss damage waiver (LDW): this is also popularly known as collision damage waiver (CDW), which covers the beneficiary from damages that occurs during the period of renting the car. If you are to use your own personal policy, it might not cover up to the full value of the vehicle you have rented. Therefore you may need a loss-damage waiver to remain secured. LDW/CDW covers you a whole lot if your rented car gets stolen, crushed or damaged.

Supplemental liability insurance (SLI): this aspect of the rental insurance policy covers damage on other vehicles, properties, and medical bills while driving a rental car. This can be evaded if your umbrella policy is intact and is not lesser than the rental coverage limit.

Personal accident insurance: PAI makes provision for coverage on medical expenses for you and everyone in the car when there is an accident.

Personal effects coverage (PEC): this is an internal provision that is made to cover items that are stolen or damaged from the rental car. Even when you have active auto insurance, it will not cover for items that are inside the car. Therefore you need an extra rental insurance policy to cover for such incidence.

Things to Consider Before Purchasing Car Rental Insurance

The process of purchasing rental car insurance to protect your rental car might be very tedious and confusing, so you do not what to make silly mistakes. Here are some things to check for while booking for your next exquisite road trip.

Be sure of everything that your rental car insurance covers you for, know the things that are excluded. The major things that are usually excluded from the rental car insurance are damage to wheels, engine, roof, tyre, mirrors, and windows.

Ensure to use a separate standard insurance agency to evade car hire excess insurance. 

Certify whether there is Roadside assistance in your policy.

Be ready for a credit card deposit.

Take the company’s contact in case of an emergency.

Check for the authenticity of the insurance company. You may also check CarJunkYardsNearMe.com for your non-working cars needs. 

StackTrek to Hold Coding eSports Competition this August

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It is without any doubt that majority of our workforce are not euipped with the fitting skills and talent to their chosen careers. A great number fall to call center or BPO employment since it is the primary leading work opportunity, while a few would work overseas to get more financially-motivating opportunities.

It is noble for companies like StackTrek that aims to attract employers towards our country by either giving potentially promising coders or developers the proper skills to enhance their capabilities competitive enough to the global standards through their StackEd and StackLab. StackED is providing tech platform for education, bias-free skills assessment, and talent improvement to universities and schools. StackLab is providing a space for the best tech talent to be hired by global tech companies.

and to look for already capables through their StackLeague. StackLeague is the first, free, and largest coding Esports competition to be held on August 3-4, 2019 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas).  It aims to create and provide equal opportunities for developers to showcase their skills.

With the objective of changing the education to employment landscape, StackTrek aims to transform a nation’s education and economic future. True enough, I believe in this principle since making the people more capable would attract more employers to look into the Philippines, not only Metro Manila, but even looking into the workforce based in the provinces that benefitted from the learning opportunities given by StackTrek.

The analytics than can be derived could help employers identify their needs. It would be a valuable tool to address employment requirements that would greatly benefit companies.

To learn more, please watch the videos of our interview and discussion during the presentation and Q&A at the media launch held a few days ago at the Trader's Lounge at Tektite Building

Florian Groebel, General Manager, and Nigel Villanueva, League Director,  John Gonzales, Business Development Officer, and Bill Yuen, CEO and Founder of StackTrek, all provided significant information to us during the event.

Similar to what they did in Iloilo, StackTrek will soon hold a Coding eSports competition on August 3 & 4 at the former Trading Hall of Tektite, and hopefully to create an equally successful output.

Below are the official press releases from the media launch:

StackTrek: Bringing Equality in Programming Education and Employment

The Philippines is the world’s number two IT outsourcing destination, yet a majority of programming students are not “hireable” in tech jobs. Serial entrepreneur Billy Yuen saw this gap and formulated a solution: a way to bring equal opportunities in tech education and employment, and a bridge for Filipinos from poverty to middle-class jobs.

StackTrek is a venture-backed global people analytics company, with offices in Hong Kong and APAC headquarters in the Philippines. The company boasts of deep expertise and propriety technologies in assessing, analyzing, and improving programmer capability – enabling the Filipino graduate to be competitive in the 4th industrial revolution.

StackTrek has an ambitious agenda: that every student should graduate armed with career-ready IT knowledge. After all, no other subject can open doors in the 21st century like programming.The company has plans touching on tech education, economic development, equality, and inclusiveness. Currently, StackTrek is working with the government to bring universal programming education to the entire nation.

StackTrek, a People Analytics Company, is umbrella to three brands:

StackED is providing tech platform for education, bias-free skills assessment, and talent improvement to universities and schools.

StackLab is providing a space for the best tech talent to be hired by global tech companies.

Putting employment at its center by bringing these companies to the employees.

StackLeague is the first, free, and largest coding Esports competition to be held on August 3-4, 2019 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas).  It aims to create and provide equal opportunities for developers to showcase their skills. In this competition, there is no such thing as race, gender and social background – only developers.  StackLeague is pure skills. No Gender. No Race. Only Talent.  Interested parties may check out stackleague.com. StackLeague is also open to partners and sponsors. For more details email growth@stacktrek.com.


A Business with A Purpose
According to StackTrek CEO and Founder Billy Yuen, “StackTrek is not a non-profit. We are simply a business, but with a sense of purpose. We are doing something really, really important — something deep, transformative, which requires a broad worldview and an open mind to understand the true impact that we are bringing upon the world.”

By changing the education to employment landscape StackTrek will transform a nation’s education and economic future.

For more information about StackTrek, visit https://stacktrek.com.

StackLeague: The Biggest Coding eSport Event Happening in August 2019

StackLeague: Code. Compete. Connect will be the first, free and largest Esports coding event from August 3-4 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas)

Code
We care about how great you are at coding and we want to provide equal opportunities to get recognized by global tech companies. There’s no race, no gender, no social background - only developers.


Compete
StackLeague is a coding competition where you can showcase your skills against other coders. Databases and web technologies may change, frameworks may change, game engines may change, methodologies and tooling may change, but coding fundamentals, and logical thinking skills, and debugging techniques have remained constant.


Connect
StackLeague’s purpose is to connect coders not only with like-minded individuals but with global tech companies as well.

Interested parties may check out stackleague.com. StackLeague is also open to partners and sponsors. For more details email growth@stacktrek.com.


StackLeague is a project of StackTrek, a venture-backed global people analytics company, with offices in Hong Kong and APAC headquarters in the Philippines. The company boasts of deep expertise and propriety technologies in assessing, analyzing, and improving programmer capability – enabling the Filipino graduate to be competitive in the 4thindustrial revolution.

By changing the education to employment landscape StackTrek will transform a nation’s education and economic future.
For more information about StackTrek, visit https://stacktrek.com.