Tzar C. Umang Chief ICT Specialist

DOST – Smarter Philippines Program

Overview of

Smarter Philippines Framework

Smarter Philippines framework is focused

on developing 6 dimensions to enable

inclusive growth and sustainable

development

ICT Development is seen

to propel its realization

What is Smart “ICT”?

Green ICT Cloud Mobile Social Network

Sensors GIS Map Health Informatics

+ And more

Working Definition…

• “Smart “ICT” applications leveraging science and

technology to:

• Create better products

• Improve services

• Enhance processes and workflows

• Enabling technology and

• Improve human life and the society to make it sustainable and

ensure equal access to opportunities to enable inclusive growth

But ICT is already smart why do we need

to make it smart?

#ThrowbackICT

Days of Hardware

Only Hardware

is needed… Our hardware

don’t need your

software…

The Business of

ICT is all about

Hardware…

This is pure

engineering…

#ThrowbackICT

Software says it all

Your hardware

needs our software

to make it run Users needs us…

Users will not fully

understand your

machine without

Software Software have all

the solution for

users needs

#PresentICT

Consumerism

Users wants more

choices

Demand for

Flexibility

User Experience

is a must!!!

Service…

Portability

Accessibility

Science and Technology and ICT

Innovation

Development

Sustainability

Growth

Resiliency

S&T ICT

Smart “ICT” to Propel S&T, but how?

Land Use and

Urban Planning

Disaster Risk

Reduction Mgmt.

Jobs/ Business

Environment

Education Services

Agricultural System

Telecommunication

Healthcare Services

Transportation

System

Public Safety

Instrumented

Integrated data

including sensors,

video and voice

Interconnected Networked

intelligence

Knowledge sharing

Outsourcing

Work collaboration

Intelligent Proactive, preventive,

predictive use of

information

Analytics

Visualization

SMART “ICT” SYSTEMS ENABLE BOTH PRIVATE AND THE

GOVERNMENT TO:

Leverage information to make better decisions

Anticipate problems to resolve them proactively

Coordinate resources to operate effectively

Smart ICT and its Application Areas

Smart ICT and Smarter Cities • Land Use and Urban Planning

Urban Planner Survey Urban Zoning

Challenge: it is a long process and

sometimes inefficient

Instrumented

• Smart Sensors

• Application for

Community Idea

Sourcing

Interconnected

• City Knowledge

portal

• Citywide WIFI

Intelligence

• City Urban

Zoning

• City Hazard

Mapping and

Forecast

• Transparency

Efficiency

Smart

Innovative

Resilient

Social Media

Smart ICT and Smarter DRRM • Warning Dissemination System Challenge: Not all people understand

the terms, and forecast is not really a

forecast

Satellite

Weather

Sensors

Radio and TV

SMS

Locally trained

expert

Bell

High Performance Computing

Big Data

Electronic Paper and Pen

Smart ICT and Smarter Healthcare • Healthcare Information System Challenge: Data is contained on

every facility, tedious process of

analytics

Healthcare

Practitioner Hospital Information

System

Central

Server

Medical

Analytics

Disease

Warning

System

High Performance Computing RXBox and Ehealth Tablet Interconnected

Medical Facility

Smart ICT and Smarter Farming • Climate Smart Farming Challenge: Climate Change had

greatly affected how we do things

specially in agriculture…

Farmer Plant Harvest

Farm Information

Management System Smart Weather

Forecast

Farm Yield Data

Analytics

Locally trained

expert

Smart ICT and Smarter ICT Infrastructure • Connectivity

Challenge: We only

attained 60%

connectivity in the

whole country and

good connection is

somewhat focused

only in urban areas

TV Whitespace technology

• Uses un-allocated television frequency spectrum to

provide data connectivity.

• Applications of the technology include: telemedicine,

educational content delivery, rural last mile connectivity

and environmental sensor networks.

SMART “ICT” is all about Science and Technology

Harmonization…

SMART “ICT” is not all about changing the system, but it

is for the full realization of every Science, Technology

and Engineering goals to enable Inclusive Growth.

Where it brings flexibility, effective innovation and

Sustainable Development in the Society…

Smart ICT an enabler of Inclusive Growth

GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS

ICT-based transformation of Governance

Inclusive Political and Economic Institutions

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

Global Competitiveness Job Creation Poverty Alleviation Political Stability

Economic Growth To create productive jobs and

economic opportunity

Human Development

& Social Inclusion To enable equal access to economic

opportunity

Social Protection

& Social Safety Nets To protect the citizenry, esp from

natural disaster, and mitigate the risk of

shocks to the livelihood of the poor

A glimpse what the government is doing…

Strategy #1 to leverage the 2015 ASEAN Integration and APEC hosting: Help the APEC host cities to develop as Smarter Cities

Davao Smart City

Boracay

Iloilo

Manila

Tagaytay

Legaspi

Subic

Clark

Bacolod

Davao

Cebu

Smart Cities “investment magnet” http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2013/06/04/s

mart-cities-investment-magnet-285796

Philippine eHealth Development Plan 2013-2017 Enabling greater equality of access to healthcare services for a healthy, productive citizenry

Capacity Building

Advocacy

Standards

Info Exchange

Platform

Policies

PH Health Information

Exchange

Philippine

Health

Enterprise

Data

Warehouse

Analytics Tablet (EMR)

Community

Health

Information

Tracking

(CHITS)

Hospital

Management

Information

System

(HOMIS)

eHealth Apps

Telemedicine

services

Tele-parasitology

Tele-dermatology

RXBox

+150 Barangays

+450

Rural Barangays

Smarter Healthcare: S&T Solutions to Conquer Dengue for a better quality of life for all Filipinos

Dengue Prevention through Public Awareness. The rainy season of each year marks the beginning of a DOH-led anti-dengue public awareness campaign.

Dengue Rapid Test Kit. Inexpensive test kit for

dengue yields diagnostic results within 1 hour.

R&D on medicinal properties of local plants for

a national anti-dengue vaccine by 2014 and cure

for dengue haemorrhagic fever.

The DOST-DOH Dep Ed OL Trap Program: Dengue prevention through biological control. DOST-produced OL (ovicidal-larvicidal) traps are placed in different areas of participating schools and serviced every 6 days by volunteers. The OL Traps contain a larvicidal solution which emits an odor that attract Aedes mosquitos to lay their eggs in them. The solution then kills the eggs and larvae.

National online dengue early warning system. The red balloons indicate schools with OL Trap indices of >40%. Local authorities in these areas are alerted to undertake an all-out anti-dengue campaign.

Smarter Traffic Management: S&T Solutions to the traffic problem in Metro Manila and other cities

Let us talk about traffic: isn’t it

estimated that our economy

loses an estimated 2.4 billion

pesos every day, because of

Metro Manila traffic? Among the projects

targeted to decongest Manila is the

Integrated Transport System.

Integrated and Optimal Scheduling of Public

Transport System in Metro Manila

TV White Space Project: enabling Internet access to and providing government e-services for remote and disaster-stricken communities

Challenge and Response: Only 47% cities and municipalities have broadband access. Many rural families cannot afford a broadband connection, which costs P1,000/ month. TVWS gives rural communities access to broadband enabled e-services. Inclusive development is thus fostered by eLearning, eCommerce, eGovernment and eHealth. TVWS can help NGAs and communities to re-establish internet services after a natural disaster.

DOST’s ICT Office, with TVWS and help from the

telcos, was able to establish internet services for

National Government Agency desks at the

Command Center in Tacloban after Typhoon

Yolanda (Haiyan).

DOST ICT Office- Microsoft Philippines MOU

on TV White Space Adoption

TV White Space equipment helped restore

internet services in Bohol after the earthquake

From Left to Right: Science & Technology Secretary Mario G. Montejo, President Benigno S. Aquino III, and Project Noah Project Director Dr. Mahar Lagmay

Project Noah Reduces Philippines’ Vulnerability to to Flooding and Storm Surge

“Project Noah would serve as the Philippines’ ark against deluge. We would put an end to the ordeal that people have been accustomed to in rainy weather.” - President Aquino

DREAM 3D LIDAR Mapping for Flood Control

CITIES TO BE COVERED BY DREAM:

As of Sept. 16, 2013: 34 of 58 cities have been surveyed by 3D LIDAR

Philippine National Earthquake & Tsunami Monitoring & Communication System: II. Tsunami Early Warning System

Tsunami hazard mapping for Metro Manila Tsunami hazard map for Metro Manila Tsunami scenario database

Sea-level detection sensors Corregidor Tidal Gauge Station

High Performance Computing & Big Data Analytics will improve weather forecasting and flood & storm surge prediction

IBM Corp. donated a 4,096 core Blue

Gene/P super computer to DOST.

The NOAH-Wise Project: Weather Information Integration for System Enhancement

EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

• Improved weather forecasting

• NOAH’s weather forecast extended from 6

hours to 7 days

• Larger area coverage to monitor weather

disturbances forming out at sea

• Faster computing time will result in hourly

7-day forecasts

• Improved flood prediction and storm surge

prediction

iGov Philippines Enables transparency and efficient, effective delivery of government services

The MITHI Program will harmonize Government ICT

resources and programs for efficiency and interoperability

Coherence of ICT programs and projects of the Government and consistency

with the five (5) Key Result Areas (KRA) of the Administration for 2011 - 2016

• Aims at empowering civil servants by providing the

necessary ICT equipment to ensure efficiency and facilitate

business productivity.

Digitization Empowerment

Fund

(DigEFund)

P1.6B

• Aims at interconnecting government agencies by

fostering collaboration and teamwork in creating

inter-operable systems that leads to innovative

government services and efficient internal

systems.

MITHI Expanded

E-Gov Fund

P2.4B

Project SARAI (Smarter Approaches to Reinvigorate Agriculture as an Industry in the Philippines )

Data Analytics with GIS Connectivity On Location Smart Sensors Knowledge Sharing

Project 1

Crop Modeling &

Forecasting

Project 2

Crop Environment

Characterization

Project 3

SARAI Knowledge Portal

Project 4

Capacity Building

Project 3

Mainstreaming

Project General Objective

SARAI IOC

Making Climate Smart

Agriculture with Data Analytics,

Collaboration and Knowledge

Sharing

Tzar C. Umang Chief ICT Specialist

DOST – Smarter Philippines Program

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