Paragon e-participation system: Utilizing ICT in the Philippine legislation

• Main Authors: Ang, S. C. T., Gamalinda, D. A. M., Jamoralin, M. D. O., Pedrozo, C. R., Ulit, Estefanie D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Political participation; Electronic government information—Law and legislation; Government communication systems > Philippines; Computer Sciences; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12608
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research project basically looks deeper into governance problems where ICT solutions can be applied particularly in the legislative branch of Philippine government. It mainly focuses on problems in the law making process and the case investigations done within the legislative branch where good laws should be made with the joint efforts of bureaucrats, legislators and citizens. This is in the hopes that good governance can be achieved by applying e-Governance and e-Participation concepts which pushes a more effective, efficient and democratic government. The main problem here is that currents efforts of the government in terms of informing and engaging citizens to participate are insufficient to properly motivate citizens in participation caused by ineffective venues to participate. Thus citizens lack representation in the law making process. There is also inefficient transparency and accountability since citizens have difficulties in accessing public documents. By thorough interviews and analysis of the whole lawmaking and the legislative case management process, the proponents were able to develop an integrated bills management, content management and decision support system which support the e-Participation concepts that address problems on citizen participation in the legislative process. Through this, Senate users will be able to easily track and manage documents while citizens can easily access and give feedback to public documents. This will allow both the bureaucrats and the citizens to contribute in the decision making within the lawmaking process.