On July 17, 2012, both Richard Ednave Moya - Under Secretary, Department of Budget and Management and Denis F. Villorente - Director of the National Computer Center at the Department of Science and Technology in the Philippines visited NIA to meet with both NIA President, Seang-Tae Kim and NIA Vice President, Jung-Hyup Kang and other NIA management to learn more about

Korea' s e-government best practices and Korea-Philippines cooperation regarding Government Integrated Data Center development.



NIA has taken part in projects and has worked closely in the past with various Filipino government ministries. Both NIA President and Vice-President mentioned these projects with both high-level officials when they came to visit. Specifically, NIA Vice President Kang mentioned his most recent

trip to Manila back in May when NIA and ICTO of the Philippines signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on ICT Cooperation as well as attending a kick-off meeting for the e-Government Masterplan project and feasibility study on GIDC sponsored by the Korean government.



Under Secretary, Richard Ednave Moya acknowledged these projects and thanked NIA for its ongoing and generous support. He mentioned that Korea 's open data environment and it ' s government integrated data center (GIDC) were important to understand as the Philippines is trying to achieve better

access to reports and data from different government departments without going through complex bureaucratic processes. Many government agencies in the Philippines complain that vital reports for national projects and interventions are often unavailable. In addition, untimely submission of reports, inaccuracy of data collected at the ground level, and lack of access to government databases have caused delays and recurring problems in the implementation of different government programs across the country so it was in their best interested to get support from NIA and the government of Korea in this area in order to improve the Philippines public sector data management and information sharing.



Following up on that point, even if there are mechanisms in place for access to data, it is important that the data that can be accessed be of good quality and relevant. After a presentation by NIA Director, Wonseon Ko on Korean e-government best practices, more discussion took place on

trying to transfer and fit certain best practices for developing countries.

 NIA President, Seang-Tae Kim with Philippine Under Secretary of Department and Budget, Richard Ednave Moya (left) and Denis Villorente, Director of the National Computer Center at the Department of Science and Technology (right)