PLDT and wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. team up with the National Council on Disability Affairs to launch InnoGen 4.0, with the theme “Innovation for All.” The program calls on the tech-savvy youth to pitch their technology-enabled solution that empowers persons with disabilities.

PLDT and Smart affirm their commitment to help find solutions to the challenges facing the production and social sectors of the country, through technology and innovation.

Persons with disabilities in San Miguel, Bulacan, reap the benefits of PLDT and Smart’s digital training, expanding their livelihood opportunities.

Over 200 senior citizens from Carcar City, Cebu, participated in a mental health awareness and digital literacy training session conducted by PLDT and Smart in partnership with the Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs and Passerelles Numériques Philippines.

PLDT and wireless unit Smart together with the Quezon City Persons with Disability Affairs Office and NORFIL Foundation help persons with visual impairment learn digital life skills to help them accomplish daily tasks.

PLDT and Smart, in partnership with ATRIEV, NORFIL Foundation, Voice Philippines, and the municipality of San Mateo, Rizal, conducted a free Digital Business Basics Training for 25 participants who are persons with disability or carers of persons with disability.

PLDT and Smart continue to foster inclusion and provide opportunities to persons with disabilities across the country by expanding the reach of their digital trainings, as part of their IDEATe program or Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy through Technology.

PLDT Group’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy through Technology (IDEATe) program has been shortlisted at the 2024 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards.

Further promoting digital inclusion nationwide, PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. enable Filipino entrepreneurs with disabilities towards productivity through digital technology.

PLDT and wireless unit Smart have ramped up digital inclusion efforts in the Visayas region, empowering senior citizens and visually impaired persons through digital training under the group's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy through Technology or IDEATe program.