Novotel Araneta Cubao, Quezon City | 7 November 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Quezon City, Ph -- Following last year’s Stakeholders‘ Discussion forum on the status of the Philippines’ IPv6 adoption efforts, through the lens of the past and present and where we are headed, the DOST Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), together with the Asia Open RAN Academy (AORA), is organizing an IPv6 Conference this year that tackles the Governance of Technology Adoption.

The conference is bold in its statement — IPv6 is 10% technical, 90% political. This sums up DOST-ASTI’s more than two-decade IPv6 advocacy, as the forerunner of IPv6 research in the country.

With digital transformation as one of President Marcos’ priorities, strengthening the country’s digital infrastructure is central to achieving the government’s broader digital transformation goals. IPv6 is key to this. The country’s push toward digital transformation requires a network infrastructure that is resilient, future-ready, and able to support emerging technologies. This is also what the conference underscores— the importance of sustaining a dynamic and cooperative telecommunications ecosystem.

The Conference serves as a convergence point for related efforts that promote wider connectivity and open technology adoption. Complementing these efforts is the recently enacted Konektadong Pinoy Act, a legislative measure aimed at improving data transmission and expanding connectivity through a more open, accessible, and competitive framework. An experts panel examines the impact of the Konektadong Pinoy Act on accelerating IPv6 adoption and deployment of other emerging technologies.

The Conference is part of DOST-ASTI’s Open Network Testbed Laboratory for Internet Technologies Deployment and Experimentation (ON-IDLE) Project, which is funded by a grant from the APNIC Foundation, through the ISIF Asia.

With support from long-standing partners from the local internet community like the Philippine Network Operators Group (PhNOG), Internet Society - Philippine Chapter, and internet advocacy groups, the event serves as a call-to-action to work together to build a resilient, inclusive, and competitive digital infrastructure for the country.

About ON-IDLE

The project, with the Asia Open RAN Academy (AORA) as cooperating partner, leverages PREGINET’s proven capability and experience in IPv6 over a two-decade period, as well as the partnerships and relationships we have built with academe, telecommunication companies, network operators and service providers, Internet development advocates, and training institutions.

ON-IDLE activities are geared towards IPv6 capacity building, advocacy and deployment, strengthening research on advanced network technologies.