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The City Government of Davao and representatives from AboitizPower Distribution Unit, and the Davao Light recently signed the Memorandum of Agreement for Project Bilis –the digitalization of the business processes of LGU- Davao City to enhance and promote the ease of doing business within the city. Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte, Senior Vice President and […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee called on the House leadership to provide an additional P521-M in the budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in House Bill No. 4488 or the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) to streamline the effectiveness of the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA). In his letter to the […]
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is urging the Philippine Charity and Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to digitize its products to continue generating revenues amid the quarantine restrictions being enforced because of COVID-19. During the lottery agency’s briefing with the House panel, Albay Representative Joey Salceda said PCSO’s revenues declined from P44 billion […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is seeking the swift approval of his measure that will overhaul the “Book Publishing Industry Development Act” (BPIDA) in order to mandate the scanning or conversion into electronic copies and other digital formats of all textbooks, most especially amid the current shift to blended or distance learning this pandemic season. Villafuerte […]
Senator Sonny Angara is calling for a strengthening of the anti-fraud mechanisms of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) as part of the ongoing efforts to rid itself of wastages due to corruption or inefficient systems. Apart from pushing for the conduct of a special audit on PhilHealth funds following the most recent controversy faced […]
The House of Representatives approved unanimously on third and final reading the electronic government (e-government) bill which aims to enhance access to and delivery of public services. A total of 229 lawmakers voted in favor of House Bill 6927 or the proposed E-Government Act. The master plan should include a Philippine Government Interoperability Framework. Under […]
For a lot of agencies and institutions of government, the requirement to keep certain documents for long periods of time has turned into a storage nightmare. Most of these offices are already cramped as it is and the clutter of documents is only taking up precious space. For Senator Sonny Angara, the digitization of documents […]
Senator Dick Gordon said prison records should be digitized so that there would be prompt and accurate information of the time served by an inmate following the earlier announcement by Bureau of Corrections (BUCOR) Chief Nicanor Faeldon that 1,000 inmates may be mass released in all penal colonies in the country with the implementation of […]