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MANILA – The nine-member Commission on Elections (Comelec) Advisory Council has been reconstituted for the May 2022 national and local elections.
In a statement on Tuesday, the poll body said the members of the advisory body should be registered voters and who are of known independence, competence, and probity, which are required under the law.
The de facto chairman of the council is Secretary Gregorio Honasan II of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
The members are from the academe, non-government electoral reform organizations, ICT professional organizations, and select government agencies.
It is composed of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Undersecretary Brenda L. Nazareth-Manzano and Department of Education (DepEd) Undersecretary Alain del Pascua as representatives from the government.
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The advisory body is composed of nine members, who is required under the law to be registered voters and who are of known independence, competence and probity.
The de facto chairman of the council is the current secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), assisted by members from the academe, non-government electoral reform organizations, ICT professional organizations and select government agencies
The CAC chairman is DICT Sec. Gregorio B. Honasan II, and the members are Department of Science and Technology (DOST) USec. Brenda L. Nazareth-Manzano, and Department of Education (DepEd) USec. Alain Del B. Pascua as representatives from the government;
December 16, 2020 THE Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index continuously hammers on the need for local government units (LGUs) to enhance, harness and leverage data for data-driven policy directions and business decisions. This was the overarching message of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine Competitiveness Council this year. The awards ceremony ran virtually last December 16.
Local government units may ignore the call aside as one of those usual awards programs of government but if they read closely the last part of the message, LGUs need to think twice. Data is the new fuel of both local and national economies. Without disaggregated, intelligently processed and interactive datasets, LGUs output and performance will be heavily affected and perceived to be always a “hit and miss process”. Their inefficiency and ineffectiveness as leaders and managers of their respective l
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DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año said that the 15 LGUs that bagged this year’s Digital Governance Awards (DGA) for their remarkable Information Communication Technology (ICT) practices and innovations will effectively render their assigned tasks under the new normal with the virus still lurking in the environment.
“Amid all the present trials, LGUs heeded the call of the DILG to innovate and to help us overcome the adversities of the new and unfamiliar normal. LGUs embraced IT solutions not only to continue working and operating but also to advance strategies in reaching out to their constituents and stakeholders,” said Año.