In a press briefing on Tuesday, June 13, DICT Secretary Rodolfo Salalima said the move is one of DICT’s initiatives aimed at establishing a single portal within the agency where citizens can have online access to services of various government departments.
“People need no longer go from place to place just to contact all these departments. Through our portal, one stop shop portal, pwede na ang tao maski sa probinsya, use our portal to transact, say for example, with the NBI, the BIR and other government agencies," Salalima said.
With regard to cybersecurity, Salalima said the DICT reorganized and invigorated the Cybersecurity Investigation Coordinating Center, which he chairs.
DICT is the one in-charge of handling different agencies of government on how to mitigate, prevent and deal with cybersecurity and cybercrime issues.
During Monday’s Independence Day celebration, the DICT launched the free Wi-Fi project along EDSA to give the public wider access to fast telecommunication services.
The Wi-Fi project will be implemented not just in Metro Manila but also throughout the countryside to bring opportunities to the people in the rural areas, according to Salalima.
“The plan is to put up all Wi-Fi facilities in sites. So that po ‘yung citizens natin na nagta-travel along EDSA will have access to the telecommunication services so that in the event siguro kung medyo nale-late because of the traffic, they can communicate to their home or to their offices para malaman kung saan na sila,” he said.
