PLDT and Smart, together with the group’s corporate arm, PLDT Enterprise, are hosting the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) Command Center at their facility in Sampaloc, Manila to bolster the integrity of the upcoming 2025 national and local elections.
“PLDT and Smart’s alliance with the PPCRV is built on a shared and unwavering commitment to safeguarding the integrity of Philippine elections. Equipped with servers, network infrastructure, internet connectivity, mobile devices, and other communication tools, the Command Center enables PPCRV to coordinate the work of over 450,000 volunteers across the country,” said Blums Pineda, senior vice president and head of enterprise business group at PLDT and Smart.
The site serves as the nerve center of PPCRV’s election operations enabling the civic society organization to gather data in real-time and process transmission audits as part of its advocacy for a clean, honest, accurate, meaningful, peaceful (CHAMP) polls. The facility also boosts the poll watchdog’s unofficial parallel count.
