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  • Philippines: DOST website is Webby awards finalist

    The One Stop Information Shop of Technologies or OSIST, an online public information system of the Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and Development (PCIERD) clicked its way to the list of e-government category finalists in the 11th Philippine Web Awards (PWA), the local version of the prestigious international Webby Awards.

    PWA is a recognition body for the best Philippine websites. Finalists and winners draw approval among their peers, which often becomes web developers' leverage for better information technology career opportunities.

  • Philippines: DOST XI to implement ICT4D

    The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), with support from the International Development Research Center for Canada (IDRC), is implementing a project, "Learning from Information and communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) to enhance policymaking (Philippines)," with the aim of identifying the transformational impact of ICT on the Philippine society.

    The ICT4D project (www.ict4d.ph), in its Grants Program, has supported case study documentation of ICT4D initiatives in the country in the areas of politics/governance empowerment social services (e.g. education, health), economic/livelihood and infrastrucure/access.

  • Philippines: DOST’s Osist vying for World Summit award

    The Department of Science and Technology’s Internet portal called One Stop Information Shop of Technologies (Osist) was chosen over five others as national finalist for the World Summit Awards (WSA) e-Science and Technology category in an online content-related contest.

    The team behind Osist earned tickets to Monterey, Mexico, on June 12 as among the 40 winning teams in eight categories to be honored in the WSA gala night. The teams will receive certificates and trophies from government and industry leaders, and the United Nations.

  • Philippines: DOTC renews call for broadband network project

    The Philippines needs to implement the national broadband network (NBN) project now to be able to compete with its neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which are already establishing their own broadband networks to modernize government services, according to the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).

    In a briefing on Tuesday, DOTC Assistant Secretary Lorenzo Formoso III said that for all the criticism of the NBN project, its modernizing impact on the bureaucracy would put the country in a better position to compete with other ASEAN economies like those of Malaysia and Vietnam.

  • Philippines: DTI, DILG push nationwide streamlining of business permits and licensing systems

    The Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Interior and Local Government launched on August 6 the Nationwide Streamlining of Business Permits and Licensing Systems.

    DTI Secretary Gregory L. Domingo and DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo signed the (1) BPLS Standards, (2) a joint department Administrative Order on the roles of the two government agencies in the implementation if the BPLS project, and (3) a memorandum of agreement to formalize and provide a mechanism to susain joint efforts of DTI and DILG to address constraints to local investment generation.

  • Philippines: E-center sprouts in quiet Mindanao town

    The Matium CEC is a joint venture of the Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCO), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Sarangani provincial government.

    The new CEC is dubbed the "Last Mile Initiative through the Maitum Community E-Center" and aims to provide basic communications access to several Sarangi towns.

    In a statement, MEDCO Chairperson Jesus Dureza said the project would provide a cost-effective Internet facility in Maitum and other nearby towns that have third-class agricultural operations.

  • Philippines: E-government initiatives should start small--CICT chair

    The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) believes that the success of e-government initiatives in the country can start from smaller projects.

    “While the e-government initiatives of national government agencies are more prominent, the Philippine government and the CICT both believe that the success of e-government in the country has to start from the smallest unit of government in order for a greater number of people to reap its benefits,” CICT chair Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua said in a speech during a recent forum of government chief information officers (CIO).

  • Philippines: e-Government vs e-Governance

    E-Government and e-governance have been used interchangeably by many quarters. But is there really a difference? My proposition is that there is a world of difference between the two terms.

    For one thing, e-governance does not only apply to government, but also to any entity or institution, even a family. It is the ability and the responsibility of leaders to "govern" their institutions.

  • Philippines: E-library launched at Capitol

    The Provincial Library Service Division of the Office of the Governor, with the National Library of the Philippines, launched Friday the Philippine E-Lib at the Provincial Capitol.

    The launching was attended by public librarians from the cities and municipalities of Negros Occidental.

    Philippine E-lib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines, University of the Philippines, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture, and the Commission on Higher Education and funded through the e-Government Fund of the Philippines.

  • Philippines: E-library launched at Negros Occidental provincial capitol

    The Provincial Library Service Division of the Office of the Governor, with the National Library of the Philippines launched the Philippine E-Lib recently at the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City.

    The launching was attended by public librarians from the cities and municipalities of Negros Occidental.

  • Philippines: e-Library project eyes P63M additional funding

    Following its grand launch last April, the government-backed e-Library project is eyeing more funding as it enters the second phase of its rollout, a top government official told INQ7.net on Thursday.

    The e-Library project is a 166.7-million-peso collaborative project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the University of the Philippines, the Department of Agriculture, the National Library, and the Commission on Higher Education.

  • Philippines: e-PhilHealth project eyed under PPP scheme

    A system connecting the regional offices of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to hospitals in order to fast track insurance payments is being eyed by the government under its public-private partnership (PPP) scheme.

    At the ongoing PPP conference at the Marriott Hotel in Pasay City, Health Undersecretary Teodoro J. Herbosa said the PhilHealth e-Health Project will cost about P200 million and should be ready for bidding in the second quarter of next year.

  • Philippines: eLGU project starts to lift off the ground

    When RA 8792, known as the E-commerce Law, was passed in 2000, it mandated all agencies of government to use electronic means in government transactions within two years. Three years after the deadline, it is not clear if the agencies concerned have sufficiently complied with the provision of the law.

    But while Manila-based bureaus have yet to make significant strides in digitizing their functions, local government units (LGUs) in the countryside are staging a quiet revolution in their attempt to make electronic transactions a real part of their everyday business.

  • Philippines: EV Online: The road to e-Government in Eastern Visayas

    E-Government in Eastern Visayas (EV) will soon be realized through the full implementation of the EV Online, which is now on its first stage, established through Resolution No. 43, series of 2006 of the Regional Development Council (RDC) with funding provided for the development of the EV online portal, individual websites of RDC members and the operating expenses for its implementation.

    This good news was bared by Teresita Escobar, admin and finance coordinator of the Eastern Visayas Information Sharing Network (EVISNET) in her powerpoint presentation during a meeting with IT coordinators of RDC members without regional websites held recently at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) regional office.

  • Philippines: Ex-CICT chairman laments slow e-government implementation

    The former chairman of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) has lamented the slow implementation of e-government projects of the current administration.

    Veteran IT executive Ver Pena told a recent MAP forum that the biggest problem is how to spend the $ 1 billion fund earmarked for e-government program with no proposed projects on the pipeline.

  • Philippines: Failed biddings, funding issues delay e-gov’t projects--CICT

    Failed biddings, delay in the release of funds, project modifications, change in project management were among the "common problems" causing the delay of various e-government projects, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) has said.

    "The common reasons for project delays given by the implementing agencies of e-government funded projects vary from failed biddings, to delay in the release of funds, project modifications, change in project management, and problems with the service providers," said CICT Commissioner Tim Diaz de Rivera, during last week’s roundtable discussion on government procurement that was organized by the ICT4D (ICT for Development in the Philippines) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

  • Philippines: First-ever district-wide Barangay e-Governance System launched in QC's District 1

    Computerization caught up with all 37 barangays in Quezon City’s District 1 before Christmas. And the benefits of electronic governance became available to some 400,000 residents there when public service resumed in the New Year after the long holiday break.

    Quezon City thus booked another milestone in local governance with the launching by Councilor Ricardo “RJ” Belmonte of the first-ever district-wide Barangay e-Governance System (BeGS) last Dec. 17.

  • Philippines: Fiscal pressures force Manila to review open source e-govt

    The Philippines' Commission on ICT (CICT) believes that e-government services will help encourage more widespread take-up of internet services in the country.

    "It’s imperative that our country’s e-government platform be based on the open source (model)," declared Virgilio Peña, Chairman of CICT.

  • Philippines: Former CICT chair urges partnerships for e-governance

    There is a big difference between “e-government” and “e-governance,” according to a former chair of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT).

    Most information and communications technology (ICT)-related projects in government are e-government projects, explained Virgilio Pena who is now a consultant for the "E-governance for Effectiveness and Efficiency" (E3) project of management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint.

  • Philippines: GIS unveils 'government office-in-a-kiosk' in Camiguin

    Imagine transacting with a government office in a manner so efficient you need not deal with piles of paperwork, yet you get what you need in a matter of minutes.

    This is now possible in the country’s island of imagination - Camiguin - with the putting up of the G-W@PS (Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Wireless Automated Processing System) Kiosk which may look diminutive, being a 55-inch high box-type machine, with a 28-inch by 16-inch touch screen monitor but this device packs a lot of punch.

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