The Bureau of Customs (BoC), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) are expected to start implementing the E-governance project aimed at improving their business-related processes.
"These are three critical government agencies that will be using E-Governance and hopefully, they will be interconnected," said Virgilio Fulgencio, National Competitiveness Council (NCC) director.
Fulgencio said relevant application systems have been developed at the BoC while that of BFAD would be implemented shortly.
Baltazar Endriga, NCC private sector champion for management working group, said the BIR-information communications technology (ICT) projects are eyed for development and implementation.
These projects are agreed in the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the NCC, the Management Association of the Philippines and BearingPoint Inc. on the Electronic Governance for Efficiency and Effectiveness Project (E3 Project).
The E3 project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), aims to foster efficient, responsive, transparent and accountable governance at all levels.
The project hopes to increase capacity amongst key officials throughout the Philippine government in the strategic use of ICT for gender-responsive e-governance, especially within the social services sector. This supports NCC’s mandate of upgrading competitiveness in the country.
BearingPoint will develop a gender-responsive training program involving, among others, core competencies as leadership; ICT project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; outsourcing; contract management; content management; process/change management; information resources strategy and planning.
On the other hand, the NCC and MAP will participate in training workshops/meetings developed by BearingPoint for mid-level and specialized government personnel in the use of ICT for delivering government services, efficiently and effectively.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Edu H. Lopez
Quelle/Source: The Manila Bulletin, 13.01.2008
