SUBIC Bay Freeport –The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has launched here the e-Gov and the e-LGU mobile applications in keeping with ongoing efforts to enhance government services and speed up processing of documents.
The rollout was held last Tuesday at the Subic Bay Exhibition and Convention Center.
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Eduardo Jose Aliño welcomed the event led by DICT Region 3 director Antonio Edward Padre.
Aliño said the initiative will “enhance government services and improve industry processes and transactions.”
“The e-Gov ‘super app’ houses all government institutions in a single site, which will enable stakeholders to avail of government services faster and with less stress, less expenses, and less man hours. Lining up in queues will be reduced and hours spent for travel time may instead be utilized productively for other activities,” Aliño said in a speech read for him by SBMA information chief Vergil Lansangan.
“Ultimately, this project hopes to eliminate corruption and red tape in government transactions since the platform will keep track of them and leave a clear audit record,” he added.
Stakeholders will now have easy access to various government online services and information since all sites are being housed in a single mobile application, which covers all local and national levels of public agencies, Aliño noted.
Gaudan also said the platform launch was significant for the e-Gov app, saying the Green Lanes of the app provides “Ease of Doing Business” for foreign companies looking at investing in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
He said this was in line with Executive Order 18 or the Constituting Green Lanes for Strategic Investments policy, a government-wide response to enhance Ease of Doing Business by mandating the creation of Green Lane units in all government offices that will expedite, streamline and automate government processes for Strategic Investments.
“There are many processes and transactions that happens in Subic Bay Freeport that needs to be digitized for a more efficient way of conducting business here since the e-Gov integrates the multi-sectoral government services in a single platform, covering a wide range of local government services such as business permit licensing, community tax, local civil registry and many others,” Gaudan said.
Present during the launch were other ranking DICT officials and Zambales provincial officials, along with Olongapo Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. and national government portal project director Joshua Vazir Querol.
Meanwhile, DICT Zambales director Jeffrey Lazaro presented future plans that will affect the digitization of government services in the province.
The e-LGU system creates a single operating system for all government transactions to ensure ease of doing business, as part of the digital transformation of government towards more efficient, faster service delivery, and transparency across all localities in the country.
