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Bohol ICT Council Elects New Officers
The Bohol ICT Council elected its new set of officers on January 10, 2017 at the Governor’s Mansion in Tagbilaran City. Gov. Edgar M. Chatto inducted the new officers. The officers come from diverse backgrounds including engineering, information technology, business, digital marketing, education, government, and freelancing. They have expressed their commitment to bring new ideas and usher in a new era of growth into the innovation community in Bohol. They hope to engage with the different community sectors in Bohol to figure out how the council will be best able to help them. They are interested in listening to pulse of the Boholano people and making sure that the council understands the needs of the different communities. The Bohol ICT Council will be spearheading the current government’s initiative of making Bohol digitally competitive. The new initiative of Digital Bohol which was launched in October of last year will also be a priority for the council this year. The newly elected Bohol ICT Council officers are as follows: President: Joanne Phillips Vice President: Ben Skelton Secretary: Babie Sarah Ladeza Treasurer: Grethel Mende Auditor: Ayeng Castro Press Relations Officer: Zion Campo Community Lead for eCommerce: Monica Jane Roldan Community Lead for Freelancers: Jorine Bryan Agua Community Lead for Hardware Technology: Roy Bayonas Outgoing president Ms. Lai Biliran will be turning over the responsibilities to the new president Ms. Joanne Phillips within January. (Zion Campo, Jerome Auza) (Photo courtesy of Zion Campo) (Source: Change is Coming to the Bohol ICT... read moreCity sets P111 M worth of modern infra for ’17
TAGBILARAN CITY, January 13 (PIA)–Tagbilaran City continues to keep up to the demands of a modern city, and beyond its newly concreted roads with drainage systems, Light Emitting Diode (LED) street lights and traffic lights with counters by allocating some P111 million worth of modern infra for 2017. Sometime within the year, a key element in major big cities in the world would also be installed in Tagbilaran, one that would possibly elevate the city to be among the country’s bustling metropolises from a quaint and laid-back city. City Mayor John Geesnell Yap said in the next months, electronic information boards would be erected in the city’s thoroughfares as a way to put up announcements and emergency broadcasts. The development would also be in tandem with the formal setting up of the City Command Center at the basement of the newly refurbished city hall, he added. Tagbilaran city has pushed for an additional P15 million information Technology development and the installation of citywide surveillance systems through its closed circuit televisions in all major intersections, public schools and barangays. This would be another vital information supply to the Command Center which would then issue relevant information, or any monitored development worth everybody’s time. At a meeting with the City Peace and Order Council, Mayor Yap reminded barangay chairmen to submit a list of priority areas where the city could put the surveillance system in their jurisdiction so that they can map out the infrastructure. All data from these video recording machines would be transmitted to the City Command Center for compilation and immediate reference. City IT head Charles Borja also... read more
DTI chief calls on corporate foundations to practice inclusive, innovative CSR
MAKATI—Inclusive business model is not just about helping small players, as big companies also benefit from partnerships that this model creates, the country’s trade chief said. Speaking at the League of Corporate Foundations’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expo on 19 July, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez called on companies to continuously innovate even on its processes to adopt an inclusive business (IB) model for its CSR initiatives. “If CSR is about the practice of ‘doing good is good business,’ the government is about generating business to do good,” said Sec. Lopez. He added that that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is sincere in helping the poor and those who have less in life by providing more opportunities for jobs and entrepreneurship, and inclusive business is a viable option for this. According to him, while private and public sectors have different approaches to practice inclusivity, the synergy between the two should push the shared goal of improving the quality of life of every Filipino, thus making a symbiotic business model. “We encourage the corporate sector to integrate the IB model in their respective CSRs. With the big brother-small brother connection, the government is now developing a simplified formula to properly incentivize companies that integrate small players in their value chains,” he said. Sec. Lopez mentioned that the government’s focus in implementing this initiative is on the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), adding that programs and initiatives that aim at developing MSMEs can only mean greater economic success for the country. “With the creation of new business ventures and the push for innovation in existing...Nasty worm wriggles into millions of computers
A nasty worm has wriggled into millions of computers and continues to spread. This worm, popularly known as “Conficker” or “Downadup”, has infected more than nine million computers by Tuesday and is spreading at a rate of one million machines daily. Though this worm has yet to do noticeable damage, it has been debated that maybe it is impotent and is just waiting to detonate, or is a test – run by cybercriminals. It is a self-replicating program, which takes advantage of networks or computers that isn’t updated with the security patches for Windows RPC Server Service. It infects machines through the Internet or by hiding in USBs carrying data from one computer to another. Once in a computer it digs deep, setting up defenses that make it hard to extract. Click here for full...Local News/ Bohol Balita
Daunting task, says incoming PTC chair
DAUNTING task, admits Atty. Lucas Nunag of Amarela fame, the incoming chairman of the private sector led-Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) here. The council, which has largely been credited in chambering the innovative policies to mold the eco-cultural tourism boom here could probably be the only one private sector-led council. Nunag takes on the rein of the advisory, policy-making and recommendatory body for all tourism programs in government and in the private sector from the first non-government representative as chairman in the PTC history. Nunag would be on to a tough task, he admits as it would be challenging to lead the main council out to pave the roadmap for conserving and sustaining the tourism industry after it has established itself as a top tourism destination in the country. Ordinarily a council led by the provincial chief executive, Governor Erico Aumentado who consequently held the chairmanships of the League of Provinces of the Philippines and the Union of Local Authorities could not put in all the time for the council here. For this reason, the governor, who also believed handing the rein to the private sector would innovate the council operations relinquished the chairmanship to a travel operator and local media mogul Peter Dejaresco. After serving full terms since 2006, Dejaresco called for the elections last Thursday during the PTC meeting held at SegLim of the Bohol Tropics. This after the PTC has accomplished SAPA LGU Bilar and Camp Magsaysay, decongestion of the Choco Hills vehicular traffic, organized the Loboc River cruise Operators Association, the Bohol Marine Triangle and the dolphin protection, tarsier sanctuary and the tourist welcome center. It...SKPF urges youth to register and vote for May 20 polls
WITH the youth vote now believed to be crucial for the dream revamp in the country’s political system, Bohol Sangguniang Kabataan Federation echoes the call for the youth to register and make their votes count. Jorvan Cordova of the SKPF said that their campaign for youth vote has since started in May during their weekly radio program here. At the weekly Kapihan sa PIA, Cordova added that the SK Provincial federation through Board Member Jane Censoria Cajes, who consequently sits as the SK National Federation president believes that a unified vote of the youth would surely topple all stereotypes of the corrupted political system in the country. We still have firm hopes that the youth are the hopes of today, not the future, Cajes once said. Over this, even with their weekly go-out and vote campaigns through their radio program, the SKPF through the office of Board member Jane Censoria Cajes has sent official memoranda to all SK barangay offices to extend the invitation to urge members to register and offer any assistance to first time voters in their localities to facilitate registration. We have sent memos to all municipal and barangay offices to encourage youth to register and exercise their right to vote, he said. According to the Commission on Elections through Provincial Election Officer Eliseo Labaria, it would be relatively easy for first time registrants as they would only need to show a valid identification, fill up the forms and biometric data. The COMELEC website says qualified to register are persons turning 18 on or before May 10, 2010, has established residency and is not disqualified by...Capitol to put a diver treatment chamber
FINALLY, after an advocacy to put up a decompression chamber to rescue divers with decompression problems, Capitol now mulls for a hyperbaric chamber, that is, if plans do not miscarry. Through the Provincial Tourism Council (PTC), Governor Erico Aumentado revealed that the plan is to put up the needed decompression chamber at the newly opened Bohol Medical Care Institute with the rise in diving tours here in Bohol. Putting up the chamber has been a long dream for Bohol whose prime dive sites have lure local and international divers. Still saddled with the apparent failure of the government to regulate the dives with direct supervision from the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD), Bohol’s resources and guest divers endanger themselves when diving here. “We need this decompression chamber so much, with the lack of equipment here, some victims of diving accidents could not reach hospitals and facilities that can help them, said Aumentado. The nearest facility Bohol divers can use is at the Central Command in Cebu and dive accident victims need to be airlifted fast to survive and make it to the treatment center. According to the governor, Bohol has already been authorized to operate the hyper baric equipment. A hyperbaric apparatus is capable of giving a therapy to dive victims whose blood oxygen levels have not stabilized after fast surfacing, posing dangers to their body oxygen levels against the atmospheric pressure. At the present set-up, even with world-class dive sites, divers here need to sign waivers to waive dive operators’ responsibility in the eventuality of dive accidents, the governor added. “We are now in the process...LMP Visayas Island Conference reminds DA on P1M farm-to-market-road promise, calls for conference of upland municipalities
The League of Municipalities of the Philippines Visayas Island Cluster Conference passed a resolution reminding the Department of Agriculture thru Secretary Arthur Yap of his P1 Million for farm-to-market road projects promise. The Visayas Mayors who were present noted that the promise was made by Secretary Yap two years ago during the General Assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines. Another resolution passed called for the holding of a conference for upland municipalities. The Visayas Island Cluster observed that a Conference for Coastal Municipalities has been conducted so that the municipalities could share the best practices, identify their concerns and collectively identify the interventions needed. The Visayas Island Cluster Conference was attended by the municipal mayors from Western Visayas or Region 6, Central Visayas or Region 7 and Eastern Visayas or Region 8. (PIA) Click here for full...LMP Visayas calls on COA to assign auditors to municipalities
The League of Municipalities Visayas Island Cluster calls on the Commission on Audit to assign auditors to municipalities in order to facilitate faster delivery of basic services. The Visayas Island mayors noted that in the recent issuance of Memo Circular by COA on selective pre-auditing of government transactions, many municipalities encountered difficulties in disbursing their local funds that resulted in the delay of transactions. The Mayors also observed that the COA auditors assigned to municipalities only go to their assignments periodically. This prompted the LMP Visayas Island Cluster Conference to pass a Resolution to ask COA to assign an Auditor in every Municipality or in every cluster of three municipalities provided the auditor will frequently visit the assigned municipality. (PIA) Click here for full...National News
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