A regional council working to promote ICT in the Asia-Pacific commended the CESB for its efforts “to bridge the ICT capacity gap of Filipino government executives to achieve socio-economic and development goals” during its 4th annual meeting in Incheon, South Korea held last November 9-14, 2009.  

The Governing Council of the United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communications Technology for Development (UN-APCICT) likewise selected Executive Director Tonette Allones to lead an international team of policymakers to develop an ICT Competency Framework for government leaders in the Asia Pacific.
 
The UN-APCICT is a regional institute under the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) that advocates the use of information and communications technology (ICT) among its member countries to bridge the digital divide in the Asia-Pacific region.
 
“We are grateful for the opportunity to share with our colleagues in the Asia-Pacific community what the CESB has achieved in terms of capacitating our government executives in the field of ICT,” said Executive Director Allones who led the Philippine delegation in Incheon. “We are likewise looking forward to working with our international partners to develop a feasible and relevant framework to develop the ICT competencies of our government executives.”

In less than a year, the CESB has fully-integrated into its core training programs the training principles and content specified in the “Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders”, a flagship project of the UN-APCICT. Part of this roll out effort is the development and implementation of a training module on ICT customized for the Executive Leadership Program (ELP). The said module has already been conducted twice this year – one in July and one in October. 

The Philippines is part of a growing group of countries -- including Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Timor Leste and countries of the Pacific islands -- dedicated to implement institutional and human capacity building programs in ICT to help attain national socio-economic and development goals.

 

Date posted: December 1, 2009