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  • Philippines to connect over 900 cities with free Wi-Fi

    US$31.6 million to connect 997 cities to free Wi-Fi.

    The Philippines plans to roll out free Wi-Fi to nearly 1000 cities by November, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has said.

    This week it tendered for the PHP 1.408 billion (US$31.6 million) project to set up Wi-Fi hotspots in 997 cities.

  • Philippines to deliver rural e-health services

    The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) is seeking to create an electronic database of patient’s medical records to share with rural health units and some government hospitals in central part of the country.

    Together with the telecom firm, Smart communications, DOH will implement the programme called Secured Health Information Network and Exchange (Shine) to boosts the efficiency of healthcare delivery by cutting down the time spent in repetitive documentation of patient data in Iloilo city.

    The programme will also aid in recording consultations, filling up and sending of referral acknowledgement and feedback forms, searching for health care specialists or facilities.

  • Philippines to launch Community e-Centre roadmap

    The Philippines government has devised a new roadmap for its Community eCentres programme to help bridge the digital divide, focusing on infrastructure and capacity building.

    Discussing progress made in the agency’s goal to bring ICT to communities, Chairman of Philippine Community eCenter (CeC) Network, Dr Angelo Ramos, told delegates at the FutureGov Forum in Manila that there were many obstacles in the rollout.

    “Connectivity is still a challenge for the country especially in providing internet or broadband access to municipalities.”

  • Philippines to modernise revenue administration

    The Bureau of Internal Revenue is embarking on a US $54.3 million Revenue Administration Reform Project (RARP) which aims to increase tax revenues over time and address issues posed by corruption, tax administration inefficiencies and lack of transparency, by introducing state of the art technologies to enhance the country’s overall tax administration system.

    The project is funded by the Millennium Challenge Account – Philippines (MCA-P), an office of the independent US foreign aid agency created to help developing nations in their fight against poverty by way of implementing strategic threshold programmes.

  • Philippines to succeed in E-Learning via effective ICT sector

    Senator Edgardo Angara highlighted the importance of developing a progressive Information and Communication Technology sector in the Philippines seeing it as the key in achieving the promises of distance education or E-Learning.

    "If we are able to connect each person in the archipelago through broadband, for example, we would be able to provide quality education even to those in the most distant barrios," Angara said during his recent keynote address at the 1st International Conference on Open and Distance E-Learning (ICODEL).

  • Philippines urged to adopt int’l telehealth standards

    With the current population increase outgrowing the local healthcare resources, lawmakers and doctors in the Philippines are calling for the immediate adoption of international telehealth standards or E-health -- the practice of applying ICT for healthcare delivery and education for the underserved.

    "We must maximize telehealth potential and adopt international telehealth standards," said Senator Edgardo Angara, in his keynote address read at the first "eHealth & Telemedicine Philippines 2009" conference and exhibition which opened yesterday at the Crowne Plaza Galleria in Quezon City.

  • Philippines using biometrics to provide government pensions

    The Philippines’ Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and Globe Telecom Inc have recently inked a deal which will see more than 350 wireless automated processing system kiosks take root in government offices.

    GSIS administers a pension fund for Filipino government employees that have the following social security benefits: compulsory life insurance, optional life insurance, retirement benefits, and disability benefits for work-related accidents and death benefits. The GSIS also offers government employees financial services such as loans.

  • Philippines: NCC mulls ASP model to help low-tech areas go online

    Third- or fourth-level municipalities in the country may soon be connected to the Internet when the National Computer Center (NCC) implements an applications service provider (ASP) model for these areas.

    The ASP model may allow impoverished municipalities to start their own computerization initiatives without spending much on hardware and software components.

  • Philippines: Plans for e-government data center shelved

    Plans to establish a government-owned and operated Internet data center (IDC) has been shelved for good, an official told INQ7.net Tuesday.

    The IDC hopes to serve as a central repository of digitally encoded information for all government offices.

  • Philippines: 100% of M’nao LGU’s now online

    ALL 457 Mindanao local government units (LGUs) are now online and can be accessed with a click of a button. Based on the latest web presence statistics released by the National Computer Center (NCC) through its Field Operations Office, 100% of 25 provinces, 27 cities and 405 municipalities comprising the Mindanao area now have web presence.

  • Philippines: 2 gov't IT projects to receive P248M from eGov fund

    The e-Government Fund technical working group recently approved the disbursement of 248 million pesos for two new information technology-related projects for the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

  • Philippines: 30 projects competing for e-government fund

    MORE than 30 proposals from various government agencies are jostling for the remaining 2-billion-peso e-government fund for information technology projects, a member of the Information Technology and E-commerce Council (ITECC) committee on e-government said Friday.

  • Philippines: 31 municipalities sign e-governance 'covenant'

    Thirty-one municipalities have signed a covenant indicating their commitment to help each other implement e-governance, a representative of a Canadian International Development Agency-funded project said.

    As a result of the "E-governance for Municipal Development (eGov4MD)" project, municipal officials have agreed to share skills and resources in the development of e-governance systems.

    They have also agreed to pool finances to build a community of technical professionals who will assist local government units in implementing e-governance projects.

  • Philippines: 31 municipalities sign e-governance 'covenant'

    Thirty-one municipalities have signed a covenant indicating their commitment to help each other implement e-governance, a representative of a Canadian International Development Agency-funded project said.

    As a result of the "E-governance for Municipal Development (eGov4MD)" project, municipal officials have agreed to share skills and resources in the development of e-governance systems.

  • Philippines: 4 Davao Sur LGUs get free software for permits and licensing system

    Four local government units (LGUs) from the province became recipients of free software package using an open source-based business permit and licensing system through the eGovernance for Municipal Development (eGov4MD) project.

    The package includes various forms of technical assistance, particularly in crafting Information System Strategic Plan and in making electronic business permit and licensing system operational. These components were provided to the municipalities of Sta. Cruz, Bansalan, Hagonoy, and Padada.

  • Philippines: A government roadmap for the information and communications technol

    LIKE most countries in the world, the Philippines aspires to enter more markets in the global network of the information and communications industry. Each day tens of millions of Internet users send each other electronic mail and surf around the net, all from their personal computers. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Internet which has been open for business for decades and the markets for on-line services and information providers have become more populous than many countries in the world.

  • Philippines: Advocacy for 'one-stop-shop' e-business registry in RP

    There is an urgent need for a 'one-stop-shop' e-business registry in the country today to compete in the world investment market.

    "Convergence and convenience in processing business registration and documents such as permits, clearances, and the like," said Minerva Yap, coordinator of the National economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC) of the Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI-7) in Central Visayas.

  • Philippines: Agricultural extension on demand

    In line with the government’s effort towards self-sufficiency, the country has maximized the benefit of modern communications technology. We have been called the "texting capital of the world’’ because of the millions of cellular phone users in the urban areas. The use of cellphones continues to spread in the country, especially among our agricultural producers under the Techno Gabay program of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).

  • Philippines: Agusan Norte launches e-Governance

    To cope with the global challenge, the Province of Agusan del Norte formally launched the computerization program in some of the municipalities.

    In his speech during the launching of e-governance in the municipalities of Jabonga and Tubay, Governor Erlpe John Amante pointed out that since the automation began in January this year, the revenues of the pilot municipalities namely Nasipit, Buenavista, Magallanes, Cabadbaran, Jabonga and Tubay showed a remarkable increase.

  • Philippines: Agusan Norte, municipalities to launch eGovernance

    To keep pace with the changing environment brought about by the Digital Economy and in compliance with RA 8792 or the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000, the province of Agusan del Norte and some of its municipalities is set to launch eGovernance.

    The launching schedules are March 20, 9:00 am for Magallanes and 2:00 pm for Cabadbaran; March 21, 9:00 am for Jabonga and 2:00 pm for Tubay; March 22, 9:00 am for Buenavista and 2:00 pm for Nasipit; and March 26, 8:00 am for Agusan del Norte.

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