Malaki ang tiwala ni House Ways and Means Committee Chair Joey Salceda na maayos na mapapamunuan ng bagong kalihim ng Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) ang ahensya.
Ani Salceda, mula sa financial technology sector ay may background din sa economics si DICT Secretary Henry Rhoel Aguda, mga bagay na mahalaga sa patuloy na pag-unlad hindi lang ng ekonomiya ngunit maging sa teknolohiya sa bansa.
“Secretary Aguda comes from the financial technology sector, an area of our economic life that I have championed as the legislator with the greatest number of fintech related bills and laws. Secretary Aguda also has a strong background in economics, which is welcome for a post so critical to our development. He is very qualified, and my hopes for him and the DICT are up,” ani Salceda.
Umaasa naman ang mambabatas na mapalawig ng bagong kalihim ang common use ng mga telco tower para maging 5G na ang lahat ng major cities sa lahat ng rehiyon.
Hinikayat din niya si Aguda na makipagtulungan sa Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas para sa hinaharap ng cryptocurrencies.
Mahalaga rin aniyang matutukan ng bagong pamunuan ng DICT ang upgrade ng teknolohiya at cybersecurity sa financial sector, at pagkakaroon ng mga national artificial intelligence and machine learning institutes sa state universities.
“This will boost confidence in our capital markets and would be beneficial for investments in the country. A roadmap would certainly help,” sabi ni Salceda.
Hirit pa ng mambabatas sa bagong DICT secretary na gawin nang digital ang lahat ng pagbabayad sa gobyerno.
“I hope he works with the BIR, the Development Bank of the Philippines, and other government agencies collecting fees and charges to digitalize all payments made to the government. We have a very unevolved way of recording payments to the government, involving showing screenshots and verifying transactions one by one. Taxpayers and fee-payers complaining that their payments were not recorded happens too often,” dagdag pa ng kinatawan. | ulat ni Kathleen Forbes
