EMBRACING DIGITAL GOVERNMENT AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND BEYOND

EMBRACING DIGITAL GOVERNMENT AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND BEYOND

Authors

  • Dr. Froilan Mobo Philippine Merchant Marine Academy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46291/ICONTECHvol6iss1pp1-6

Keywords:

Digital Government, Embracing Technology, Beyond

Abstract

The effect of the global Pandemic converted our economy right into a maximum stimulating community fitness crisis inside the international that has confronted in more disastrous enjoy. The reaction of our government in the direction of the pandemic such as network quarantine, fitness, and protection protocol, and final down of all commercial enterprise establishments brought about a more complicated troubles affecting tens of millions of Filipinos who're unable to earn a living during in this time of a deadly disease.

 

The use of technological systems inside the Philippines can be its capacity and with the united states’s virtual implementation typically trailing behind neighboring international locations will be its existence-converting economic possibilities. Interconnectivity is the basic foundation of e-governance in shaping up the financial system of the Philippines, there are numerous demanding situations encountered in the course of this pandemic in phrases of connectivity issues. There's a want to improve the internet provider carriers inside the Philippines as a way to attain out inside the rural regions within the whole elements of Luzon, Mindanao, and Visayas. The virtual implications on the Philippine governance have helped fight the COVID-19 pandemic and adapt and analyze from the authorities of China’s enjoy of a hit and proficient in e-governance model of technological advancement amidst the COVID-19, (Ullah et al., 2020). The digitalization in the authorities drive connects ‘clever’ generation in an exertion to produce new financial possibilities that raise the financial increase and govern more efficiently with less corruption, (Kolås et al., 2020).

           

moreover, the Philippine e-governance in the Philippines in this time of have started to partner with telecommunications groups to enhance their ICT services in response to the worldwide Pandemic disaster, given the extreme function of generation and digital-governance in professionally and efficiently answering to nations' growing wishes throughout this time of a pandemic. The Department of Information and Communication Era (DICT) is about to guide the Philippine government the urgency to reply to the multi-sectoral demand for the improved public provider shipping and higher-best net get entry to underneath the COVID-19 Pandemic. (DICT to lead government digital Transformation for higher regular | DICT, 2020)

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Published

2022-03-20

How to Cite

Mobo, D. F. (2022). EMBRACING DIGITAL GOVERNMENT AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND BEYOND: EMBRACING DIGITAL GOVERNMENT AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND BEYOND. ICONTECH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 6(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.46291/ICONTECHvol6iss1pp1-6

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