PGLU Bags Three Digital Governance Awards
By: Jamie Rose N. Mifa, GPC-ICTU | Photo By: GPC-ICTU | Date: December 11, 2020
The Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) bags three awards for Provincial Level for the Digital Governance Awards (DGA) 2020 on December 11, 2020 during the awarding ceremony via Zoom and Facebook Live.
The awards received include: 2nd Place in Best in Customer Empowerment (G2C) Award for eLyUnite; 3rd Place in Best in Inter-Operability (G2G) Award for Provincial Wireless Mesh; and 3rd Place in Best in Government Internal Operations (G2I) Award for iTRACK. PGLU is also a finalist in Best in CoViD-19 Pandemic Response (G2P) for Quarantine Community Protocol Management System (QCPMS).
About 56 Local Government Units with 109 entries vied for the 15 awards given. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año congratulated all the participants for their resilience despite the present challenges as he thanked them for their innovative measures to face the new normal while embracing IT solutions.
The DGA is an annual, national search for best practices in local government units in utilizing information and communications technology (ICT) to effectively and efficiently deliver its public services directly to constituents and business stakeholders. DGA is a joint project of the Department of Information and Communications Technology, the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines and DILG.
The Information Communications Technology Unit of PGLU shall continue to integrate technology in business processes in support to the establishment of a Stronger La Union.
