About time. Original article from Inquirer.net: CICT explores use of digital signatures.
MANILA, Philippines–The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) has secured a $2.3-million grant from South Korea to help establish a national public key infrastructure (PKI) standards body in the Philippines.
This PKI body will be responsible for issuing digital signatures (or digital certificates) for individual and business users transacting with government-run websites.
It’s nice to know that got some grant so that the government can do some action. Doc Mana has been ranting about creating an infrastructure a few months ago during press releases about the modernization of the national elections.
Even if we did not receive a grant, the Philippines can creatively setup an infrastructure. Given that PKI technology is not new and a lot of local companies are providing these service anyway, we can simply setup a national federation of Certification Authorities (CAs) in the Philippines issues these public keys.
Probably most of the funds of the grant will go into the pilot deployment on government organizations like the BIR (which volunteered). But hey, how about Comelec? You guys have a deadline right?
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Every second week of July (7-11) we celebrate the National Science and Technology Week. This year, it is DOST’s 50th anniversary so it is expected to be a very grand celebration (also probably the reason for cost-cutting the previous years :D). Too bad I won’t be able to go this year 
I looked at the DOST website to grabe some teaser news but the website does not seem to work. When I click on a news article, it goes back to the main page. Hey DOST web people, updates please! 
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Official photo of ISGC2008
Last April 7-11, I went to the International Symposium on Grid Computing together with Dr. Raffy Saldana. We presented our current work on health and environmental applications of grid computing for the EUAsiaGrid kick-off meeting. Aside from this, we made preparations to prepare our site in Ateneo to be part of the EGEE production grid. This involved getting certificates from the Asia Pacific Regional Operations Centre. We made certificate request to the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center to make our site a trusted part of the grid.
With Min Tsai, Team Lead of Operations in ASGC
I will be facilitating/ moderating the second session of the International Symposium on ICT for Health. It will feature paper presentations on Medical Imaging, Instrumentation and Informatics. Below is the schedule of presentations and their titles:
- 3:15pm - 3:45pm : J. Liu, J.H. Lim, D. Racoceanu, W.W.K. Damon and H. Li, “Leaking detection for medical image segmentation,” France and Singapore.
- 3:45pm - 4:15pm : A. Gavino, P. Tolentino, A. Bernal and A. Marcelo,”Analysis of telereferrals from doctors-to-the-barrios sent via Short Messaging System,” Philippines.
- 4:15pm - 4:40pm : R. Kunthy, Y. Urano, K. Marry and S. Socheat, “Pilot installation of e-health system connected from central hospital to rural community in Kandal Province, Cambodia distributed by wireless LAN network,” Japan.
- 4:40pm - 5:05pm : J. Pabico, “A simple ant model for aligning sequences,” Philippines.
- 5:05pm - 5:30pm : R.J. Miguel, V.M. Dizon, M. Abundo and L. Sison, “Bluetooth-enabled medical instrumentation,” Philippines.
- edit: 5:30pm - 5:55pm : J. Milla, “Use of IT in a hospital setting: The Medical City case,” Philippines
Authors whose name are italicized are the ones who will conduct the presentation.
ICT4Health resulted from Ateneo’s collaboration with several partners from the ONCO-MEDIA project. Its main focus is to use grid computing technologies to support information retrieval operations on medical images using context. We hope that this event will facilitate generation of new partners from several institutions in the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, Asia and France.
Additional program details of the session:
- ICT4Health2008: Session on Medical Imaging, Instrumentation and Informatics
- Session moderator: Allan Espinosa, Assistant Instructor, Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering Department, Ateneo de Manila University
- Date: Friday 2008 February 29, 3:15pm - 5:30pm [add to your Google Calendar]
- Venue: SOM 111 (Ching Tan Room), Ateneo de Manila University.[Google Maps]
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Day 2 of the 8th Philippine Computing Congress. I presented our deparment’s work on wireless logistics. It is a project commissioned by the Tropical Disease Foundation to monitor TB drug deliveries around the country.
Title: Design and engineering of a supply chain management system for drug delivery applications
Authors: A. Espinosa, N. Libatique, G. Tangonan, M. L. Guico, J. Wong, J. Marciano, J. Villeres
Abstract
Using RFID technologies, this paper reports a proof-of-concept design
and deployment for tracking expensive medical supplies for
tuberculosis patients. The supply chain starts from the distribution
centers down to regional health units. The supply chain tracking
system features the novel use of an integrated subversion based
staging server to provide data synchronization between the various
distribution centers and a remote backend database.
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