Digital transformation is now a public sector imperative.

Digital transformation is a priority for the Marcos administration as he called on the public sector to participate in the new "digital world."

"We cannot allow the Philippines to get left behind," President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in his speech at the Union Bank Innovation Campus inaugurated in San Pedro City, Laguna.

"We, in government, have gone a step further than that. Not only is it a viable way of doing business, but it is also the only way that we will be doing business in the coming years," he added.

The Chief Executive called on the private and public sectors to leverage the "silver lining" brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, accelerating technology adoption to enhance the digital way of doing business.

"We found avenues that brought us closer together, and despite the lockdown and the distance between us. We learned to hold meetings, even court trials, online," the President said.

"Initiatives like what we inaugurated are precisely the kind of innovations, the kind of forward-thinking, operations, and actions that we will need, not only in the private sector but also in the public sector, so that we, in government, can be participants in the new digital world," Marcos added.