LGU-GENSAN TO JOIN E-GOV AWARDS 2015
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (March 20, 2015) – General Santos City local government unit will participate in the 2015 eGov Awards or the Jesse Robredo Awards of Excellence in ICT for Good Governance for Local Government Units on the last week of October 2015 at the Oriental Hotel Legazpi, Albay, per DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2015-32 signed by Hon. Mar Roxas, Secretary Department of Interior and Local Government.
Percival Pasuelo, IT Officer II and ICT Division Chief under the City Mayor’s Office said that the local chief executive of General Santos City, Hon. Ronnel C. Rivera approved his request in joining the said annual IT event through his Chief of Staff, Enrique Voltaire Tiu, Executive Asst. IV, on March 20, 2015.
The in-house developed Real Property Tax System will be Gensan’s entry. Completed in 2013, enhanced in 2014 in compliance with the rules and regulations of city ordinance as to the RPT amendment implementation for 2014.
Mark Junnies Narido, Data Controller II, spearheaded the programming and coding of the system, while Leoanrd Pe, IT Officer I and Roy Detoyato, Data Controller II, provided the systems analysis and design. Anna Lou Buyco and Irene Casipe, JO Computer Programmer I, conducted the QA testing of the system. Percival Pasuelo, oversee the whoe project.
There will be an island qualifying round for Mindanao before going to the finals.
LG-RPTS of ICTD received an Outstanding rating in the 2014 SPMS.