EO to transfer gov’t data to DICT sought

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to sign an executive order (EO) compelling all government agencies to transfer their data to the ICT department to implement the national government’s portal.

DICT Secretary Rodulfo Salalima expressed confidence that the President will issue an EO for the full enforcement of a government portal aimed at providing Filipino citizens access to online services of all departments of government that are under the control of his agency.

“We have asked the President to issue an executive order urging all departments of government to transfer, to migrate all their data, systems and processes to DICT,” Salalima said in a press conference on Tuesday.

‘One-stop gateway’

“This executive order is only a means to execute the portal plan. So I have no doubt that the President will approve the executive order on portal, urging simply all government offices to migrate their data and processes to us,” he added.

The national government portal seeks to provide a onestop gateway where citizens can transact government-to-government, government-to-citizen,

Filipinos can expect universal access to government services, data and information through the national government portal. Rodulfo Salalima DICT Secretary

and government-to-business services and vice versa.

Filipinos can also expect universal access to government services, data and information through the portal site.

Salalima said the government transactions will be simplified, if the EO is signed.

“If it is controlled by DICT, people need no longer go from place to place just to contact all these departments,’ he said.

Reliable connection

Meanwhile, Salalima said the public can also expect faster internet speed by September 16 this year.

Salalima said he is expecting that the telecommunication companies would fulfill its promise to improve the country’s Internet connection.

“They promised me, September 16. I will simply follow it up and hope that by September 16, we have a fast Internet,” he said.

According to the latest ‘State of the Internet’ report by United States-based Akamai, the Philippines ranked last among 15 Asian Pacific countries and 108th in the world in the last three months of 2016.

Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network services, said the Philippines has an average Internet speed of 4.5 mbps. /