QUEZON CITY , June 30 -- The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the University of the Philippines (UP) entered into an agreement for the establishment and implementation of the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) Development Program on June 28, 2021.
The said program offers a scholarship to qualified government employees to pursue a degree in Master in Technology Management (MTM) offered by UP Technology Management Center.
"As part of our vision to establishment a Digital Government, the DICT is not only focusing on providing ICT systems, tools and solutions in the government sector, but also on improving the ICT knowledge and skills of the government workforce who shall be at the forefront of public service delivery," DICT Secretary Gregorio "Gringo" B. Honasan II said.
"The DICT believes that UP, as the leading public institution of learning in the country, will help us achieve our vision," he added.
The GCIO Development Program is a flagship initiative of the ICT Academy. It aims to provide relevant ICT education and training to qualified government employee scholars for the purpose of establishing Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in priority sectors in national government agencies (NGAs), Constitutional Commissions/Offices (C/Os), Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations (GOCCs), State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), and Local Government Units (LGUs) as part of the ICT human capital build up.
The agreement between DICT and UP also provides for cooperation on the conduct of trainings and conferences for the capacity building of GCIOs.
The GCIO Development Program is not the first partnership between DICT and UP. One of the projects the two have collaborated on was the conduct of a series of webinar titled "Enabling Teachers on Remote Teaching and Learning in the Time of Pandemic," which was named one of the 90 Champions for World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2021 under the Capacity Building category. (DICT)
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