ILOILO CITY – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) led the ceremonial download of the eGovPH app during the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) Forum at the Iloilo Grand Hotel.
The said forum focused on streamlining government processes, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and promoting transparency, making it easier for businesses to operate and thrive and boosting local revenues.
The eGovPH app serves as a one-stop platform for accessing various government services online, reducing the need for in-person transactions at LGUs.
DICT 6 director Ralph Joseph Moncatar, along with DILG officials led the symbolic app download, marking the launch of the “May eGOV Ka Na Ba?” campaign.
Bureau of Local Government Development Director Anna Liza Bonagua emphasized the importance of e-governance in making government services more accessible and payment easier.
“They can do business with the LGU in their respective offices via online systems, ” Bonagua said.
She also noted that through eGovernance, the LGUs attract investments.
“Egovernance dito natin nafa facilitate yung services ng ating government particularly kami sa DILG, ang mga local government units so that they can encourage more investments to come to the area,” she added.
(E-Governance here helps facilitate our government services, particularly for us at the DILG and the local government units, so that they can encourage more investments to come into the area.)
Satrian Peñasales, Iloilo City Local Economic Development and Investment Promotion Office Administrative Assistant II, shared that the EODB has greatly simplified transactions for their clients, making government services more efficient and accessible.
“The importance of the egovernance in the line of the local government unit is the ease of doing business transactions of our clients particularly in securing business permits because it allows them to have easier and faster transaction now that it is digitalized and it saves them time and resources,” Peñasales said.
The said forum was anchored on the theme “Fostering Transformative eGovernance for Sustained Local Economic Development.” (AAL/ED/PIA6)
