CHED, DICT ink MOU to push digitalization in higher education

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for e-governance to integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) in the higher education sector.

The MOU, which signifies a strategic partnership between CHED and DICT, aims to promote “relevant and quality” of higher education through the integration of ICT in the higher education sector.

“Today, our signing with CHED signifies a big transformation. With respect to many initiatives that your leadership looks forward in implementing under his term. And this is to bring about digitalization in the agency, to bring about easier transactions by the public with respect to state universities and colleges,” DICT Secretary Ivan Uy said.

“To ensure better veracity of documents that are submitted to the organization, most especially I think the most critical is the diploma and the way that graduates can actually be validated by different SUCs,” he added.

CHED chairperson Prospero De Vera welcomed and supported the initiative of the DICT.

“We need to be able to integrate all the higher education institutions so that everyone moves along the same line having IT (Information Technology) solutions to make this [documents and diploma] available,” he said.

“In higher education, there are many things that CHED and DICT can do together to help our students, faculty, employees, alumni, and other education stakeholders,” he added.

Uy earlier said the new government would turn to e-governance to simplify government service transactions. This includes the use of the e-Gov Super App, a platform that aims to ensure the digitalization of government systems in the country.

The e-Gov Super App is set to be launched early next month, the Presidential Communications Office said.—Richa Noriega/LDF, GMA Integrated News