The Role of ICT In Local Governance *
* MESSAGE OF AKLAN GOVERNOR CARLITO S. MARQUEZ DURING THE 1ST e QUALITY ICT SUMMIT ON APRIL 27, 2006 AT 7: P.M. SAMPAGUITA GARDENS, NEW WASHINGTON, AKLAN
Greetings!
This is another opportunity for all of us in Aklan to be proud of. We are very much happy to note that our province has been again chosen as venue for this kind of convention which you call a summit. I think this is one of the biggest gatherings hosted by Aklan province with delegations coming from some 250 State Colleges and Universities all throughout the country.
It is therefore my greatest pleasure to welcome you all for this first ever e-Quality ICT Summit held here in my province with the hope that the 3-day interaction can become fruitful and productive for the greater benefit of our people in our respective places.
I would like to be particularly thankful to the Aklan State University headed by its President, the good Doctor Benny A. Palma for becoming the moving force in bringing in to Aklan delegations from the various State Colleges nationwide for this first ever summit about Information and Communication Technology.
We need not emphasize the urgency of being updated and become an advocate and practitioner of ICT. Otherwise, being left behind in this particular field of technology will mean becoming laggards in many aspects of human and technological competition in the international sphere, the nation and her people must be into the latest in information and communication technology.
Information and Communication Technology will spell intellectual and therefore economic advancement of the nation and her people. ICT is a technological phenomenon becoming a stark reality and to be left behind will mean intellectual and economic retrogression.
I am glad that our State Colleges and Universities had taken the cudgels for the benefit of our people. Propagation and promotion of ICT among adherents must start with our school system where many of our young people are taking refuge to acquire relevant and effective education.
We need not emphasize also that ICT spells investments and employment. It is in this field that many of our workers who are employed earn decently and adequately.
ICT can best promote our potentials in every locality, like our tourism industry anchored on Boracay Island and our Ati Atihan Festival plus the other natural attractions of our province. Through ICT, projections of our places can gain the widest and farthest reach throughout the universe. Tourism of our province is best promoted through the latest in information and communication technology. Now, our tourism has already become a four billion peso arrivals hitting the half a million mark of last year. We project the number of visitors to hit the one million mark by year 2010 and ICT can do it for us. ICT is no longer a fiction or a make-believe phenomenon. It is a reality that has become urgent for all of us.
Effective local governance can be had through ICT when corruption can be lessened.
This is the reason why we are slowly automating transactions in Local Governance. We had just implemented the e-bidding in our provincial government through the provincial general services office where bidding of supplies, goods and services had become wide wide open with suppliers duly informed from all nooks and corners of the country with ICT facilities and infrastructure.
Slowly, we will be automating our real property tax assessment and collection with the provincial government at the lead and initially including the bigger towns of Kalibo, the capital, New Washington and Malay near Boracay Island. We availed of thirty-nine million peso loan with the Philippine National Bank to undertake this project because it is very necessary. As soon as this is installed, we expect revenues from real property taxes to reach more than double the traditional collection figures.
We are also attempting to automate our ticketing system and other services in our jetty ports for the convenience of tourists. ICT indeed is a must and we must be into it if our goal is to progress by leaps and bounds.
ICT can become our savior from decades of economic deprivation and from mediocrity in extending services to our people.
I wish you all the best during your stay here. We hope to be technologically nourished after this summit.
Thank you very much. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
* MESSAGE OF AKLAN GOVERNOR CARLITO S. MARQUEZ DURING THE 1ST e QUALITY ICT SUMMIT ON APRIL 27, 2006 AT 7: P.M. SAMPAGUITA GARDENS, NEW WASHINGTON, AKLAN
Greetings!
This is another opportunity for all of us in Aklan to be proud of. We are very much happy to note that our province has been again chosen as venue for this kind of convention which you call a summit. I think this is one of the biggest gatherings hosted by Aklan province with delegations coming from some 250 State Colleges and Universities all throughout the country.
It is therefore my greatest pleasure to welcome you all for this first ever e-Quality ICT Summit held here in my province with the hope that the 3-day interaction can become fruitful and productive for the greater benefit of our people in our respective places.
I would like to be particularly thankful to the Aklan State University headed by its President, the good Doctor Benny A. Palma for becoming the moving force in bringing in to Aklan delegations from the various State Colleges nationwide for this first ever summit about Information and Communication Technology.
We need not emphasize the urgency of being updated and become an advocate and practitioner of ICT. Otherwise, being left behind in this particular field of technology will mean becoming laggards in many aspects of human and technological competition in the international sphere, the nation and her people must be into the latest in information and communication technology.
Information and Communication Technology will spell intellectual and therefore economic advancement of the nation and her people. ICT is a technological phenomenon becoming a stark reality and to be left behind will mean intellectual and economic retrogression.
I am glad that our State Colleges and Universities had taken the cudgels for the benefit of our people. Propagation and promotion of ICT among adherents must start with our school system where many of our young people are taking refuge to acquire relevant and effective education.
We need not emphasize also that ICT spells investments and employment. It is in this field that many of our workers who are employed earn decently and adequately.
ICT can best promote our potentials in every locality, like our tourism industry anchored on Boracay Island and our Ati Atihan Festival plus the other natural attractions of our province. Through ICT, projections of our places can gain the widest and farthest reach throughout the universe. Tourism of our province is best promoted through the latest in information and communication technology. Now, our tourism has already become a four billion peso arrivals hitting the half a million mark of last year. We project the number of visitors to hit the one million mark by year 2010 and ICT can do it for us. ICT is no longer a fiction or a make-believe phenomenon. It is a reality that has become urgent for all of us.
Effective local governance can be had through ICT when corruption can be lessened.
This is the reason why we are slowly automating transactions in Local Governance. We had just implemented the e-bidding in our provincial government through the provincial general services office where bidding of supplies, goods and services had become wide wide open with suppliers duly informed from all nooks and corners of the country with ICT facilities and infrastructure.
Slowly, we will be automating our real property tax assessment and collection with the provincial government at the lead and initially including the bigger towns of Kalibo, the capital, New Washington and Malay near Boracay Island. We availed of thirty-nine million peso loan with the Philippine National Bank to undertake this project because it is very necessary. As soon as this is installed, we expect revenues from real property taxes to reach more than double the traditional collection figures.
We are also attempting to automate our ticketing system and other services in our jetty ports for the convenience of tourists. ICT indeed is a must and we must be into it if our goal is to progress by leaps and bounds.
ICT can become our savior from decades of economic deprivation and from mediocrity in extending services to our people.
I wish you all the best during your stay here. We hope to be technologically nourished after this summit.
Thank you very much. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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