The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has allocated
P10 million to fund and complete the development of its new overseas Filipino
workers (OFW) ID this year.
“This is from DOLE alone. Other agencies have a separate budget
(for the OFW ID),” Labor Undersecretary Ciriaco Lagunzad III said.
Lagunzad disclosed the budget was sourced from DOLE’s
Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP).
Fund allocation will be used to create the ID and the mobile
application system that will allow OFWs to access the necessary files in
government agencies needed for their deployment abroad.
Unlike existing universal government ID cards, he said the
new OFW ID will make use of a much simpler system similar to what is being used
by automated teller machines (ATM).
“There is no issue of interoperability. We will not ask the
machines of those agencies to directly talk. There is just a card, which is a
gate, which allows the OFWs to access each separate agency where they have a
file,” Lagunzad said.
The data and transactions of the OFW ID will be stored in
server managed by DOLE.
Lagunzad noted they already successfully completed the first
phase of their six-part project last month.
“The pilot demonstrated that the ID can actually access the
files of POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration,” Lagunzad said.
The Senior Labor Official said they are now in the second
phase of the project, where they will expand the coverage of the ID system to
include government agencies outside DOLE’s affiliate offices.
He said they may also soon start printing IDs on a limited
scale so it could be field tested by OFWs.
“We hope to get this running mid of April… before the end of
April we would have already come out with the cards,” Lagunzad said.
Source: CNPH, pinoynewz.com
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