Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua (File photo) MANILA - As the coronavirus pandemic has increased the need to improve on knowledge management and digitalization of processes, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said now is the right time to push for this to help future policymakers. In his remarks during the last day of the three-day virtual Asian Development Bank (ADB) Knowledge Forum 2021 on Friday, Chua said many processes in the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) are still done manually and in silos, thus, this proved challenging following the work-from-home arrangement implemented since last year to address the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). He, thus, vowed to "give the next administration a stronger NEDA foundation in the areas of organizational improvement, human resource, the use of data science, technology, innovation, innovative business processes, digital transformation, and knowledge management." &q