The National ICT Year-End Assessment for 2025 and 2026 Workplan Workshop, with the theme “Beyond Systems, Strengthening Service, Shaping Identity”, hosted by DILG Region 3, gathered together officials and personnel from the Information Systems and Technology Management Service (ISTMS) and Regional Information and Communication Technology Unit (RICTU) on October 28-30, 2025, at Quest Hotel, Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City.

The three-day activity was aimed to assess ICT project status of implementation in terms of physical accomplishments and financial utilization for FY 2025, address issues and concerns encountered in project implementation, share best practices, and craft respective division/regional ICT workplan for 2026.

In her inspirational message, Regional Director Araceli San Jose expressed appreciation to ISTMS team led by Director Loida Linson for choosing Central Luzon as the venue of the activity. She emphasized the crucial role of ICT in enhancing efficiency, transparency, and citizen-centered service delivery. She said that the true measure of our success lies in how we harness technology to create digital solutions that enhance and improve public service delivery. Additionally, she stressed that all our efforts lead toward one direction — to make government service faster, simpler, and more efficient for our clients and fellow citizens and to continue to shape the identity of DILG as a technology-driven, data-empowered, innovative, and development-oriented Department.

Workshops and presentations highlighted key ICT accomplishments, emerging priorities, and strategies toward strengthening the network infrastructure to achieve cybersecurity at the same time enhancing digital governance thru the developed internal information systems and Local Government Unit Support Systems (LGUSS) for the Department and LGUs, respectively.

Through the activity, the Department’s ICT personnel reaffirmed commitment to advancing ICT excellence and fostering collaboration between and among ISTMS and RICTU personnel.