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Due to improved government presence on the Web and a pool of English speaking human capital, the country was ranked fourth in the region, next to South Korea, Singapore and Japan, in the South and Eastern Asia region, the report showed.

Angelo Timoteo Diaz de Rivera, commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology and director general of the National Computer Center, said the results of the UN study "is really favorable to the Philippines, as we have gained stature in terms of providing government content online."