Smart Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a new holistic approach on ICT development, integration and implementation where it harmonizes with Science and Technology, to produce new products, service, enhance workflow and improve human life. With this approach it enables inclusiveness on growth and sustainability on society development, where it enables equal access to technology and its innovations by bridging the gaps on how we do ICT in the past.

1. Tzar C. Umang
Chief ICT Specialist
DOST – Smarter Philippines Program

2. 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

3. Green ICT
Cloud
Mobile
Social Network
What is Smart “ICT”?
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And more
Sensors
GIS Map
Health Informatics

4. 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

5. But ICT is already smart why do we need
to make it smart?

6. #ThrowbackICT
Only Hardware
is needed…
Our hardware
don’t need your
software…
This is pure
engineering…
The Business of
ICT is all about
Hardware…
Days of Hardware

7. #ThrowbackICT
Your hardware
needs our software
to make it run
Software have all
the solution for
users needs
Users needs us…
Software says it all
Users will not fully
understand your
machine without
Software

8. #PresentICT
Demand for
Flexibility
Users wants more
choices
Portability
User Experience
is a must!!!
Consumerism
Service…
Accessibility

9. Science and Technology and ICT
Innovation
Development
Sustainability
S&T
Growth
Resiliency
ICT

10. Smart “ICT” to Propel S&T, but how?

11. Smart ICT and its Application Areas
Land Use and
Urban Planning
Disaster Risk
Reduction Mgmt.
Jobs/ Business
Environment
Education Services
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
Agricultural System
Telecommunication
Healthcare Services
Transportation
System
Public Safety
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

12. Smart ICT and Smarter Cities
• Land Use and Urban Planning
Urban Planner
Challenge: it is a long process and
sometimes inefficient
Urban Zoning
Survey
Instrumented
Interconnected
Intelligence
• Smart Sensors
• Application for
Community Idea
Sourcing
• City Knowledge
portal
• Citywide WIFI
• City Urban
Zoning
• City Hazard
Mapping and
Forecast
• Transparency
Efficiency
Smart
Innovative
Resilient

13. Smart ICT and Smarter DRRM
• Warning Dissemination System
Challenge: Not all people understand
the terms, and forecast is not really a
forecast
Social Media
Weather
Sensors
Locally trained
expert
Radio and TV
Satellite
Bell
SMS
Big Data
High Performance Computing

14. Smart ICT and Smarter Healthcare
• Healthcare Information System
Challenge: Data is contained on
every facility, tedious process of
analytics
Electronic Paper and Pen
Medical
Analytics
Healthcare
Practitioner
RXBox and Ehealth Tablet
Hospital Information
System
Central
Server
High Performance Computing
Disease
Warning
System
Interconnected
Medical Facility

15. Smart ICT and Smarter Farming
• Climate Smart Farming
Farm Information
Management System
Farmer
Locally trained
expert
Challenge: Climate Change had
greatly affected how we do things
specially in agriculture…
Smart Weather
Forecast
Plant
Farm Yield Data
Analytics
Harvest

16. Smart ICT and Smarter ICT Infrastructure
• Connectivity
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.
Challenge: We only
attained 60%
connectivity in the
whole country and
good connection is
somewhat focused
only in urban areas

17. SMART “ICT” is all about Science and Technology
Harmonization…

18. 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…

19. Smart ICT an enabler of Inclusive Growth
Global Competitiveness
Job Creation
Poverty Alleviation
Political Stability
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
Economic Growth
To create productive jobs and
economic opportunity
Human Development
& Social Inclusion
Social Protection
& Social Safety Nets
To enable equal access to economic
opportunity
To protect the citizenry, esp from
natural disaster, and mitigate the risk of
shocks to the livelihood of the poor
GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS
ICT-based transformation of Governance
Inclusive Political and Economic Institutions

20. A glimpse what the government is doing…

21. Strategy #1 to leverage the 2015 ASEAN Integration and
APEC hosting: Help the APEC host cities to develop as Smarter Cities
Smart Cities “investment magnet”
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2013/06/04/s
mart-cities-investment-magnet-285796
Subic
Clark
Manila
Tagaytay
Legaspi
Boracay
Iloilo
Bacolod
Cebu
Davao
Davao Smart City

22. Philippine eHealth Development Plan 2013-2017
Enabling greater equality of access to healthcare services for a healthy, productive citizenry
+150
Barangays
Capacity Building
Analytics
Tablet (EMR)
RXBox
+450
Advocacy
Standards
Info Exchange
Platform
Policies
Rural
Barangays
Philippine
Health
Enterprise
Data
Warehouse
Community
Health
Information
Tracking
(CHITS)
Hospital
Management
Information
System
(HOMIS)
PH Health Information
Exchange
Telemedicine
services
Tele-parasitology
Tele-dermatology
eHealth Apps

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

24. 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

25. 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 eservices. 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.
TV White Space equipment helped restore
internet services in Bohol after the earthquake
DOST ICT Office- Microsoft Philippines MOU
on TV White Space Adoption
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).

26. 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
From Left to Right: Science & Technology Secretary Mario
G. Montejo, President Benigno S. Aquino III, and Project
Noah Project Director Dr. Mahar Lagmay

27. 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

28. Philippine National Earthquake & Tsunami Monitoring &
Communication System: II. Tsunami Early Warning System
Tsunami scenario database
Sea-level detection sensors
Tsunami hazard mapping for Metro Manila
Corregidor Tidal Gauge Station
Tsunami hazard map for Metro Manila

29. High Performance Computing & Big Data Analytics will
improve weather forecasting and flood & storm surge prediction
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
IBM Corp. donated a 4,096 core Blue
Gene/P super computer to DOST.
• 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
The NOAH-Wise Project: Weather Information Integration for System Enhancement

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

31. The MITHI Program will harmonize Government ICT
resources and programs for efficiency and interoperability
Digitization
Empowerment
Fund
(DigEFund)
P1.6B
• Aims at empowering civil
servants by providing the
necessary ICT equipment to
ensure efficiency and facilitate
business productivity.
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 interconnecting government agencies by
fostering collaboration and teamwork in creating
Expanded
inter-operable systems that leads to innovative
E-Gov Fund
government services and efficient internal
P2.4B
systems.
MITHI

32. 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 General Objective
Project 1
Crop Modeling &
Forecasting
Project 2
Crop Environment
Characterization
Project 3
SARAI Knowledge Portal
Project 4
Capacity Building
Project 3
Mainstreaming
SARAI IOC
Making Climate Smart
Agriculture with Data Analytics,
Collaboration and Knowledge
Sharing

33. Tzar C. Umang
Chief ICT Specialist
DOST – Smarter Philippines Program
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