Panayam kay CHED Chairperson Dr. Prospero De Vera III kaugnay ng partnership ng CHED at ng Comelec para palakasin ang kredibilidad at IP manpower para sa 2025 election

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Panayam kay CHED Chairperson Dr. Prospero De Vera III kaugnay ng partnership ng CHED at ng Comelec para palakasin ang kredibilidad at IP manpower para sa 2025 election

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00:00The partnership of CHED and COMELEC to strengthen the credibility and IT manpower for the 2025 elections.

00:08We will discuss this with Dr. Prospero De Vera III, Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education or CHED.

00:16Chairman Popoy, good afternoon to you.

00:20Good afternoon to you and to your listeners and viewers.

00:27Chairman, COMELEC and the Commission on Higher Education have a partnership

00:33for the national and local elections next year.

00:37What is the goal and priority of this partnership?

00:43Okay, thank you.

00:44COMELEC and I have been talking about different things for a long time.

00:49The first thing we agreed upon and signed the agreement the other day

00:54was to help COMELEC and CHED to ensure that the 2025 elections will be efficient, transparent, and very open

01:08by harnessing the expertise of students and faculty

01:15in our areas that have information and technology education programs

01:21to help them run the elections in different parts of the Philippines.

01:26Let us remember that our election today is technology-based, our voting.

01:33And of course, there are glitches in the system, there are problems with the equipment used in our elections,

01:43and sometimes, due to a lack of manpower, it is delayed, the replacement of machines is waiting,

01:51and there are many technical problems at the ground level.

01:56So CHED and COMELEC thought of using the help and expertise of our government in different parts of the Philippines

02:08to help COMELEC run the elections so that it is credible and efficient.

02:15That is what we are talking about.

02:18So what CHED will do through our regional offices,

02:22it will identify schools in different regions that have manpower on information technology,

02:29and COMELEC will train them.

02:32For the time of the elections, they will help run the elections on the technology side.

02:38That is our agreement that was signed the other day.

02:42Chairman, what will be the particular role of personnel and students from higher education in the electoral process?

02:52To make the use of technology efficient in the election,

02:57because our election is now technology-based,

03:00it is no longer like a manual, where the vote is tied manually on the board.

03:07Now, from the voting of a voter, to the transmission of results,

03:13to the aggregation of data, to the presentation to the public,

03:18it's all done electronically.

03:20So we need technology experts and technology manpower all over the country

03:27to help COMELEC run it efficiently.

03:31So that is where the universities will enter,

03:34where there are faculties that know IT,

03:38where there are students who know IT.

03:41COMELEC will look at the additional manpower needs in different parts of the Philippines

03:48and will train and recruit technology experts, technology personnel in the universities

03:57so that they can support COMELEC in running the elections.

04:02From looking at the systems, for the integrity of the systems,

04:07to the machines, to the connectivity,

04:11all of these can help our schools to strengthen their IT programs.

04:19Can you share with us the qualifications and requirements

04:25for students and personnel who will be helping in the elections next year?

04:33First, COMELEC will decide the manpower needs

04:37because they need to assess what manpower they have in the ground

04:42that they need to supplement or they need help with.

04:45And what is this?

04:47That is what COMELEC is doing now.

04:50Once they identify that, the role of CHED and universities,

04:54our regional offices will identify the schools that have this expertise and have this manpower

05:03and will tie up the schools with COMELEC in the region

05:06to discuss the personnel and expertise needed

05:11and then they will be trained in the electoral system,

05:15the use of technology,

05:17so that when the day of the election comes,

05:20our running of the elections will be efficient and credible.

05:25Because remember, we have horror stories of the past elections.

05:30Something as simple as the machine bugged down.

05:33The machine will wait for people from other parts of the Philippines

05:37and the voters are waiting to vote but there is no machine to vote.

05:43Things like this can be addressed if at the ground level,

05:48there is technology support in our electoral system.

05:53Because we have a lot of voting precincts.

05:58With the help at the ground level,

06:02with our election machines,

06:06a lot of things can be changed there.

06:09Second, that is also ensuring the integrity of the transmission of results.

06:15Of course, if the machines bug down at the local level,

06:19the results will not be transmitted.

06:22There will be problems.

06:24All of these require a technology solution.

06:28The answer is to use the experts in technology

06:32to help them.

06:34This will be coordinated by the Comelec.

06:40We are responding by identifying the schools that have IT expertise,

06:46connecting them with Comelec so that the individuals can be trained

06:50and they can help on election day.

06:53Even before election day, in setting up the system.

06:56Sir, how big of a help is this in upskilling and reskilling of students

07:02to become faculties in information technology education programs?

07:07Of course, the voters want this first

07:11because they want to help in the election.

07:13You know, the Filipinos during the election,

07:17they are civic-minded.

07:19They want to help in whatever way they can.

07:22There are many who volunteer in our election watchdog.

07:27Some of them help in voter's education.

07:34Others help in analyzing the results.

07:40I think Filipinos during the times of election really want to help.

07:44They are serious about their civic duty.

07:48So first of all, our voters and students are interested.

07:53And second, of course, it's exciting.

07:55If you say, help me so that the election can be efficient and credible,

08:00that's a big one.

08:02That's a big fulfillment and that's a big thing for a student

08:09or for a faculty that helped make the election credible.

08:15I think what CHED will do after this,

08:19we will make an award system to recognize

08:23the people who helped in the election.

08:26Maybe CHED and COMELEC can do an award system later on

08:32to identify the higher ed personnel,

08:37the students who really made the difference.

08:40But we will see that in the needs on the ground

08:44because COMELEC has different needs on the ground.

08:47There are areas where their manpower is sufficient.

08:50There are areas that are thin.

08:52So we will match the need there.

08:56So how long will this partnership between CHED and COMELEC last?

09:03Until the election is over and the winners are declared,

09:09we will be there to help COMELEC.

09:13Because once the winners are declared

09:15and the technology is used in the election,

09:18then of course, our responsibility to help is over.

09:25But I would like to add,

09:28this is just the first part of our agreement with COMELEC

09:32because we will also launch a voter's education campaign

09:36in universities and colleges.

09:39We are already preparing the parameters of our agreement.

09:43And one of these days, we will launch it again

09:47and invite the media

09:49so that we can use the network of universities

09:52to educate their students,

09:54to educate the public about the importance of elections,

09:59the importance of voting,

10:01give them the necessary information

10:03so that they can make an informed choice.

10:06When I was still in UP,

10:09when I was Vice President for Public Affairs of UP,

10:12UP did the election of 2013 and 2016.

10:17You and I were still together in ABS-CBN then.

10:21We did an election project of UP for two cycles of the election

10:27and it was very successful.

10:29Now, we want to do this using the network of interested universities

10:35In public universities,

10:38there are more than 200 state universities and colleges

10:42and local universities and colleges.

10:45We can use that network for voter's education.

10:49Now, if you want to extend it to private schools,

10:52there are almost 2,000 private and public schools in the Philippines.

10:56It is a nationwide network that can help in voter's education.

11:02We are still planning what we will do,

11:06but in the next couple of weeks,

11:08or maybe in a month or so,

11:10we are ready to launch our voter's education campaign.

11:14Sir, a message or a reminder to our countrymen

11:18from the Commission on Higher Education.

11:22In behalf of the Commission on Higher Education,

11:25we welcome and we fully support the Commission on Elections

11:31in ensuring that there is free, credible, and efficient elections in 2025.

11:39We are ready to help the Commission on Elections to ensure this.

11:44Second, we are also ready to help guide every Filipino

11:50on why it is important to vote,

11:53what they should know about the election,

11:57and the information they need for the election.

12:02Their exercise in voting is based on an informed choice.

12:11We are ready to go to that in cooperation with our universities

12:16and in cooperation with COMELEC.

12:19Okay, thank you very much for your time,

12:22Dr. Prospero De Vera III,

12:25Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education, OCHED.

Panayam kay CHED Chairperson Dr. Prospero De Vera III kaugnay ng partnership ng CHED at ng Comelec para palakasin ang kredibilidad at IP manpower para sa 2025 election

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