The document discusses how smart ICT can be leveraged to improve various areas like urban planning, disaster risk reduction, healthcare, and agriculture. It provides examples of how instrumentation, interconnection, and intelligence through technologies like sensors, cloud computing, and data analytics can help create smarter cities, healthcare systems, and farms. The key is applying these smart ICT principles and technologies to help deliver services more efficiently and enable inclusive growth.

1. Smart ICT
Software, Applications and the Cloud
A new perspective with Service
Digital ICT Congress 4
Lingayen, Pangasinan
November 20, 2014
Tzar C. Umang
ICT Director
Highly Innovative and Valuable Evolution Inc.

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

3. Working Definition…
“Smart “ICT” leverages 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

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

5. #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…

6. #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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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
RXBoxand EhealthTablet
Interconnected Medical Facility

12. 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

13. 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…

14. And how does any of the services delivered effectively?
Instrumentation, Interconnection and Intelligence through….
Cloud Computing and the underlying technologies to deliver services and sustain it…

15. Pyramid of Cloud Computing
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software / Application as a Service

16. What other key technologies that benefits from Cloud Computing’s Paradigm of efficiency on service delivery?

17. The Smart Cities Program is a harmonizing framework that enables NGA, LGU, and partners programs to synergize for inclusive growth
ISO 18091
Government Collaboration
E-Health
Smarter Transportation
Connectivity
Philippine Health Info -Exchange

18. DKAN is a Drupal (7) based Open Data Publishing suite that is compatible with CKAN.
DKAN…

20. Intelligent Operations Center: Key to Process ImprovementManaging Cities / Municipalities / Provinces / Regions Scientifically with Data
Smarter Governance
Utilities, Resource and Urban Planning
Smarter Traffic
Smarter Public Safety
Community Collaboration
Data Management
Disaster Risk Reduction Management
Intelligent Operations Center enables Cities, Municipalities, Provinces and Regions to leverage information and data science to Scientifically manage their core systems, and enable inclusive growth and sustainable development.

21. Enables transparency and efficient, effective delivery of government services
iGovPhilippines

22. 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

23. Participative Governance through Community / Citizen Collaboration (ISO 18091) Collaborative and IntegratedEfficient Delivery of ServicesTransparency and OpenSupports Innovation
Institutional Development for Good Government
Sustainable Economic Development
Inclusive Social Development
Sustainable Environmental Development
Open Government
Community Participation
Citizen Based Development
Making Cities more Sustainable by targeting actual needs of the community
Well Informed Community / Citizen

24. Project NOAH
“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

26. Big Data

27. Data Farm
Analytics Platform
Middleware
Publish
Data – form matching
Model Data Delivery Standard
Share
Publish Data Presentation
Mobile App
Social Media
Partner Website
Community Board
OpendataData Farm > Middleware > DKAN

28. 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

29. Cloud 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 Whitespacetechnology
•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.

30. Something to think about…
Human brains are virtually networked, wherein if one have a change of mind it can send a ripple of change over that network, and a state of convergence - divergence happens, and those that will converge, changes its very state of mind, while those that diverge, will stay on their current state of mind. The state of convergence happens over the member of the network with the same context, and the state of divergence happens to the members of the network that has a different set of context at some level...
Convergence –Divergence Algorithm

31. TzarC. Umang
ICT Director for Highly Innovative and Valuable Evolution Inc.
ICT Consultant for DOST –Smarter Philippines Program
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