THE CIVIL Registrar’s Office is awaiting funds to jumpstart the local civil registry (LCR) digitalization by the first quarter of the year, an official said Thursday.
Orlando Alvaira, Court Decrees and The Clerical Error Law chief said the office is looking into a P12.9 fund for the project.
To note, the 20th City Council passed the ordinance entitled “An ordinance for the digitalization of the local civil registry of Davao City through the Civil Registration Information System (CRIS) Online and appropriate funds for its implementation” on Dec. 12.
Through this, the Local Civil Registrar will establish an online registry system developed by CITC which will be accessible to the public through an application or website.
Alvaira said the system promotes transparency on the status of filing of correction of clerical errors of certificate of live birth, and for Davaoeños and the public in general to secure relevant documents.
“In this system, access to tracing of transactions such as feedbacks and results of petitions will be eased,” the official added.
For the development of the system, the city government will provide an initial funding of P5 million through its annual budget allocated for the LCR, or from any of its supplemental budget.
Councilor Bonz Andre Militar, committee chair of information technology, and proponent said this will fund the equipment needed to develop the project entailing a one-time expense.
This includes system development, file servers, computers, laptops, scanners and other peripherals, computer tables, queuing system hardware, EDP section office renovation, printers, cloud service, direct internet access, and additional manpower.
In terms of manpower, the LCR is targeting to employ additional manpower of 10 personnel to scan the documents for the transfer of data.
On data privacy concerns, all system users/ partner institutions are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the LCR about any sensitive information/personal data received and requested. Breach of the NDA shall be subject to the Data Privacy Ordinance of the city.
“For now, we are also waiting for the City Information Technology Center (CITC) to develop the system, and once it is ready along with the budget, we can start the operation,” Alvaira added.