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  • Philippines: Mindanao LGUs are finally online

    ALL 457 local government units (LGUs) in Mindanao are now online, according to the latest web presence statistics released by the National Computer Center (NCC).

    According to the NCC, 100 percent of Mindanao's 25 provinces, 27 cities and 405 municipalities now have websites.

  • Philippines: Model of automation

    Will the computerization of the coming elections lead to massive fraud or greatly help in its elimination? No one can really say yet, since automated polls has never been tried on such a great scale before by the Commission on Elections.

    But it’s good to know that at least one controversial government agency has been doing a lot better since the advent of computerization. And if the Land Transportation Office is making a lot of headway in improving its services to motor vehicle owners and in stamping out fraud and corruption, that’s because it has embraced computer technology.

  • Philippines: More investments in ICT facilities sought

    The information and communications technology (ICT) is seen to realize its great potential to ensure universal access and high-speed connectivity to vital information as the world recovers from the global financial crisis.

    However, despite his optimism, Senator Edgardo J. Angara noted that it requires investment in infrastructure from both the public and private sector.

  • Philippines: More than 1,600 local governments have websites: NCC

    More local governments are putting up their own websites, figures from National Computer Center (NCC) showed.

    As of December 2005, over 1,600 local governments in key cities, provinces, and municipalities have set up a web presence, the NCC records noted.

    There are now 74 provinces, 112 cities, and 1,489 municipalities that have websites. This is roughly 98 percent of the total of 1,696 local government units in the Philippines.

  • Philippines: Multipurpose ID system tested in January

    The government will try out its unified multipurpose identification system beginning January.

    The system will be pilot-tested in the National Economic and Development Authority and the National Statistics Office, President Arroyo said at a briefing in Malacañang Wednesday.

  • Philippines: Municipalities stand on technology threshold with new e-gov’t project

    An e-government project assisted by Canadian agencies is counting on technological innovations to give municipalities the capacity to improve their revenue generation and business climate.

    The initiative, dubbed "E-Governance for Municipal Development," is being undertaken by the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO) in partnership with the League of Municipalities in the Philippines (LMP) and its research arm the Mayor’s Development Center (MDC).

  • Philippines: Naga City leads way in e-governance

    Local government units have much to learn from Naga City's program to use information technology tools to improve governance.

    Reuel Oliver, representative of Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo, said use of the Internet and mobile technology to improve service delivery to Naga's constituents started as early as 1997 when the city's Web site was first launched.

    "In 1997, Naga City was one of the first LGUs in the country to go on the Internet through its own Web site. After the launch, it took three years before we would finally update the site. We realized that we had to use the Web as a tool to empower the people," Oliver said during an ICT forum in Makati City.

  • Philippines: Naga City wins UN Service Award

    Representing the Philippines, this city received the prestigious 2004 United Nations Public Service Award for demonstrating “excellence in serving public interest” and as serving as a “model of best practices in public services," it was learned Saturday.

    Naga City joined two other countries in the Asia-Pacific, three in Africa, two in Europe and North America and one in Latin America for the highly-coveted award as the United Nations General Assembly “celebrates the value and virtue of service to the community.”

  • Philippines: National broadband network project just tip of iceberg in anomalous IT projects

    The allegedly anomalous national broadband network (NBN) project is just the tip of the iceberg among shady information and communications technology (ICT) projects in government, according to an executive.

    There are more questionable ICT projects in the local government units and other national government agencies, said Efren Ricalde, president and CEO of GeoSpatial Solutions Inc(GSI), a local firm that has worked on government ICT projects. GSI is a local independent software vendor which has been working with IBM Philippines.

  • Philippines: National Competitiveness Council to check on effectiveness of the e-governance system

    The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) will check on the effectiveness of a new system that promises to speed up the movement of goods in and out of the country.

    Ambassador Cesar Bautista, private sector chairman of the NCC, said the business community welcomes the launching of the Bureau of Customs (BoC)-led National Single Window considered as second to Singapore in complying with global standards in the speed of exporting and importing goods.

  • Philippines: National Computer Center (NCC) urges increase in e-Government project budgets

    The National Computer Center (NCC) is pushing for a budgetary increase to sustain and expand existing ICT-related government programs.

    The NCC is a sub-agency under the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and is the implementing body for many e-government related projects.

    Speaking in an executive hearing of the e-Commerce Act at the Senate last Wednesday, NCC Director General Timoteo Diaz de Rivera said that several major e-government projects have started, with most of them now operating as expected, since the disbursement of the P4 billion e-Government Fund.

  • Philippines: National ID pilot testing slated last quarter of 2006

    Preparations are now underway for the unified multi-purpose identification system the implementation of which is set to start on the last quarter of this year, involving three government agencies.

    The designated agencies are the National Statistics Office (NSO), National Economic Development Authority (Neda) and the Philippine Health Insurance System (PhilHealth).

  • Philippines: NCC expects to complete 100 community e-centers by 2006

    The National Computer Center (NCC) is close to completing its original plan of establishing 100 community e-centers (CEC) across the country by mid next year despite a late start.

    The NCC has already put up 69 CECs, 49 of them fully operational and 20 are in the process of setting up.

    NCC field operations director Maria Teresa Camba said in an interview that the NCC’s original agenda was to finish building 100 CECs by early next year, but this has been pushed forward by a few more months.

  • Philippines: NCC starts government e-payment gateway

    The National Computer Center (NCC) is about to begin developing a 60 million-peso online payment portal for government-related services.

    The NCC has partnered with the Development Bank of the Philippines Data Center Inc. (DCI) as the financial institution for the e-Gov Payment Portal.

    Recently, the DCI awarded Fujitsu Philippines the bid to develop the core payment system.

  • Philippines: NCC to start VOIP interconnection in Malacañang

    The National Computer Center (NCC) is ready to start a pilot test of a wide-area network (WAN) project that integrates all government offices into one single network and use Voice-over-IP (VOIP) as a primary service.

    The pilot test would be implemented at the Malacañang Palace in Manila and nearby government offices, particularly the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which sits right beside Malacañang.

  • Philippines: NDC eyes JBIC to fund e-government projects

    The state-run National Development Co. (NDC) is seeking assistance from the Japanese government to bankroll the P4.8 billion e-Government development program and first e-Government project aimed at bringing down the cost of doing business in the Philippines.

  • Philippines: NEDA to form project teams for quasi-ID system

    The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is finalizing plans to create “project teams” to integrate existing government-issued identification cards.

    The project teams will all be composed of government offices involved in a project called “Harmonization of Government Numbering System,” proposed last February.

    ID harmonization involves integrating the content of several ID issuing government agencies to allow faster delivery of public services.

  • Philippines: NEDA XI urges gov't agencies to pursue e-gov services

    National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) regional director Ma. Lourdes Lim recommended for the government to pursue the development of e-government services.

    "The use of ICT is imperative to government's vision of promoting efficiency and transparency," this she said after claiming ICT as one of the developing industries in the region.

  • Philippines: New computer system in Subic keeps track of used car imports

    To effectively regulate and monitor vehicles influx of imported vehicles, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has developed a computerized tracking and inventory system designed to check their movement into the country and ensure the correct payment of customs duties and taxes.

    The system will also track tax-exempt (blue plate) vehicles owned by freeport investors and residents.

  • Philippines: New ID system implementation mapped out

    The Inter-Agency body tasked to implement the Unified Multi-Purpose ID (UMID) has finally come up with a working implementation procedure for the UMID project, a two-year implementation guideline that would have three phases until every Filipino citizen becomes part of the project.

    The group is composed of heads from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the National Statistics Office (NSO), the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the Social Security System (SSS), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and Pag-IBIG Fund.

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