Ray Roxas-Chua, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), said the agency is aggressively pushing e-governance, among other strategic objectives to promote and improve the country’s ICT landscape.
Progress could be speeded up, however, if a government chief information officer (GCIO) is named, said Esperanza Espino, president of the Chief Information Officers Forum (CIOF). "The Philippines needs to catch up with other Asian countries that have their respective government CIOs that manage and oversee the country’s ICT department, as they can create a strategic direction for the government," Espino added.
CIOF was among the organizers of last month’s first e-Governance Forum as part of the observation of the National Information and Communications Technology Month and to promote ICT in the country.
The theme of the first e-Governance Forum was "Public Service 2.0: From e-Government to e-Governance." Otjer organizers are the CIOF Foundation, the CICT and the e-Governance for Efficiency and Effectiveness (E3) Project.
One of the international speakers who illustrated the importance of having an overseer New Zealand Government CIO Laurence Miller. Miller has spent more than five years in developing and implementing the country’s e-government strategy.
He has been instrumental in driving and developing the all-of-government portal, www.govt.nz, growing it through three major release cycles. He has pushed a major IT investment portfolio worth $2 billion while supervising the New Zealand’s ICT expenditure.
One of Miller’s biggest contributions to New Zealand’s ICT is the National Broadband Map, which complements the strategies of the central and local government and previews the nation’s broadband landscape, thus allowing the government to address demand through infrastructure planning. The technology received a World Summit Award under the e-Government and Institutions last year.
Professor Toshio Obi from Waseda University provided key learning in his talk Global Asean Trends in e-Governance. Waseda University is one of Japan’s top universities and houses the Institute of e-Government. Headed by Obi, the university leads the Waseda University International e-Government Ranking, which recognizes countries excelling in e-governance based on specific metrics.
The local government unit (LGU)-focused track included a Geographic Information System (GGIS) discussion by Elsa Perez-Pantino, municipal planning and development coordinator in Guagua, Pampanga, and e-Governance for municipal development by Li-Ann de Leon, executive director of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Irma Isip
Quelle/Source: Malaya, 06.07.2010
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