Iloilo City creates Information Systems Office

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=980743
• Tuesday, April 18, 2017

By MADE LOS SANTOS(PNA)

ILOILO CITY, April 18 (PNA) -- The Iloilo City Government is strengthening its computerization program through the creation of an Information Systems Office (ISO).

The Iloilo City Council approved Tuesday the “Ordinance institutionalizing the Information Systems Department of the City of Iloilo, thereby establishing the Information Systems Office.”

Councilors Lady Julie Grace Baronda and R Leone Gerochi authored and co-authored the ordinance, respectively.

Baronda, in her ordinance, said the institutionalization of an IT office in the City Hall is in line with the national government’s Government Information System Plan (GISP), which provides framework and guide for all computerization efforts in government.

She said the GISP asserts that government information systems would reduce the processing and approval time of government transactions with the public, electronically organize and store vital data information for easy retrieval or updating, processing and sharing with government monitoring or statistical agencies, and ensure greater transparency, accountability and integrity of government operations and transactions.

“The automation of the office operations of the Local Government of Iloilo City has been rapidly growing in the past few years and the need for an office responsible for maintaining and sustaining these automation systems has been realized,” she said.

The ISO’s functions include storing, collection and transmission of records and files which have been converted into electronic data; perform update and software improvement and development on the hardware and software of the city; and ensure confidentiality and real time distribution of electronic data services to constituents of the City of Iloilo.

The creation of ISO also provides for the creation of additional positions to ensure the office is well-manned.