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Embrace digitalization, Budget chief challenges LGUs in Mindanao

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman reiterated her challenge to local government units (LGUs) in Mindanao to embrace digitalization in all forms of transactions and processes, emphasizing its vital role in good local governance and public financial management.

BUDGET Secretary Amenah angandaman delivers a message as keynote speaker of the Mindanao League of Local Budget Officers Annual Convention in Cagayan de Oro City on October 26.

She revealed a P38.75-billion budget in the proposed 2024 national budget for digitalization, 60.6 percent higher than in 2023. Pangandaman said that during the last Philippine Economic Briefing in Davao City in August, Department of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Ivan John Uy told her that “more than 1,500 free WiFi sites have already been deployed in Mindanao, and about 1,200 digital transformation centers have been established in barangays to assist our locals.”

 

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