{"id":264923,"date":"2020-08-11T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264923"},"modified":"2020-08-11T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T03:33:07","slug":"e-govt-bill-gets-house-nod-on-final-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/11\/e-govt-bill-gets-house-nod-on-final-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"E-gov&#8217;t bill gets House nod on final reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262994\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screenshot-2020-07-27-at-111155-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-262994\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screenshot-2020-07-27-at-111155-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screenshot-2020-07-27-at-111155-am.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screenshot-2020-07-27-at-111155-am-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: House of Representatives (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a measure establishing the electronic government (e-government) to enhance access to and delivery of public services.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 229 lawmakers voted in favor of House Bill 6927 or the proposed E-Government Act. No lawmaker voted against the bill or abstained from voting.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) shall establish and promote an e-government master plan to encourage excellence in facilitating the development and enhancement of all e-government services and processes.<\/p>\n<p>The master plan should include a Philippine Government Interoperability Framework to guide all shared operations and services of the Philippine government, and the interoperability of the government ICT systems.<\/p>\n<p>A system shall also be designed to systematically and efficiently secure government documents and records, including the digitization of paper-based documents and records and the development of systems that will manage these documents.<\/p>\n<p>An internet-based electronic payment facility and gateway that will enable citizens and businesses to remit payments electronically to government agencies shall be created.<\/p>\n<p>For public financial management, taxation, payment systems, accounting, business registries, and other financial systems in government shall be harmonized and managed.<\/p>\n<p>As for the procurement system, an online and real-time service that encompasses all procurement processes involving bidding, contract agreements and payment for services or supplies shall also be developed.<\/p>\n<p>The bill proposes that each local government unit shall have an ICT officer assigned to manage and supervise its adoption of the e-government plan.<\/p>\n<p>Each agency and LGU shall submit an annual status report on the implementation of e-government initiatives, as well as its compliance and performance in delivering programs through the e-government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a measure establishing the electronic government (e-government) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264924,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264923\/revisions\/264924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}