The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Central Office representatives headed by Mr. Richard L. Villacorte, Program Manager II, SLGP-PMO conducted the Regional Moderators Training on Developmental LIVE or DevLive Platform System with the SLGP and PDMU Representatives of eight (8) Regional Offices in Visayas and Mindanao held on May 6-8, 2019, at Sun City Suites, General Santos City. The SLGP-PMO representatives were accompanied by App developers from 98 Labs, Inc., a software developer of DevLIVE Mobile Application. Among the regions that were trained in this event are teams from Region VI, Region VII, Region, VIII, Region IX, Region X, Region XI, Region XII, and CARAGA Region.
DILG-XII, LGCDD Chief, Maria Theresa D. Bautista braced the event representing DILG-XII Regional Director, Josephine Cabrido-Leysa, CESO V and delivered her message of thanks to all participants especially to Mr. Villacorte for choosing R-XII as the host of the said event. Mr. Richard Villacorte, Program Manager II, SLGP PMO provided the vivid background and purpose of the new citizen feedback mobile app. The team of 98 Lab, Inc, explains the vital areas of the DevLIVE application usage, i.e. Overview; DevLIVE Version 2.0; Guidelines; Power of Social Media; Roll-out Mechanics; and other important discussions especially on the practicality and actual usage on the field.
The DevLIVE mobile application is a support program to gather feedback from the community with regard to the implementation of Assistance to Disadvantage Municipalities (ADM) and/or Assistance to Municipalities (AM) infrastructure projects. More so, Mr. Villacorte highlighted that the government, through the DILG, launches this application as the first ever mobile application to be used by the community to provide feedback for the implementation of the infrastructure projects. Mr. Villacorte, in his end-statement, positively stressed to all participants (for the community at-large), “Open-up your minds. Use the app because you will become a champion to trailblaze the world of innovation, change, and of technology…” The trained pool of regional moderators are now preparing to conduct massive roll-out activities on their respective localities.
LGSF-AM Partners New Mobile App for Feedbacking
“Transitions, changing the way we do things, this is the way we do today in the government”, SLGP Program Manager II Richard L. Villacorte said during the Leveraging Technology for Citizens and Government; Regional Moderators’ Training on Development LIVE (DevLIVE) Platform System (Visayas and Mindanao Cluster) on May 7, 2019.
Formerly, every municipality creates their own Project Monitoring and Evaluation Team as well as the Regional and Project Development Monitoring Unit (PDMU). However, with the trend of new technology and innovation, the department has developed a new tool to help the government hear feedbacks from localities especially in the implementation of infrastructure projects. The LGSF-AM/ADM projects can be easily monitor by higher authorities, vis-à-vis with the PDMU/PMT Teams through this mobile application.
Development LIVE (DevLIVE), a mobile application developed by the Support to Local Government Program-Project Management Office (SLGP-PMO) of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in partnership with the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), was 1st launched last 2018 and was enhanced this year. DevLIVE application allow citizens to access AM and ADM projects in their localities. Moreover, citizens are allowed to send feedbacks to the said projects with attached photo, using the said application.
Project monitoring system, such as DevLIVE, acts as an easy access tool for the citizens or beneficiaries to give feedbacks about the ongoing and completed government projects. It is for the organization and project itself to see how it is doing against objective, whether it is having an impact, or if it is working efficiently. DevLIVE is currently accessible to all Filipinos who are using android gadgets even in the far-flung areas.
DILG & 98Labs Unveils DevLIVE Version 2.0
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), together with the United Nation Development Program (UNDP), and 98Labs, Inc., a Software Company sets the newest version of DevLIVE, a citizen feedback mobile application. The newest version was thoroughly presented by SLGP-PMO and 98Labs, Inc. during the Regional Moderators Training for Visayas and Mindanao clusters held at Sun City Suites, General Santos City last April 6-8, 2019. The mobile application is finally equipped with its newest best features and user-friendly instructions.
The DevLIVE Version 2.0 was finally developed and shared to regional moderators emphasizing some of its enhanced features, viz:
DevLIVE 2018 (Old version) DevLIVE2019 (Version 2.0)
-For LGU and Citizens’ Feedback -For Citizens’ Feedback alone
-Can be used by LGU and Citizens -Only for the Citizens
-Source of Data is from LGU -Fetched from Subaybayan Portal/Report
-Without Link to Subaybayan Portal/Report -With link to Subaybayan Portal/Report
-No Dashboard for Overall Results -With Dashboard for results
The newest version, DevLIVE Version 2.0, is still upgrading based on some recommendations. Nonetheless, the SLGP-PMO encouraged the pool of participants to strategize and be flexible for some additional innovations may be included to further improve the application. The said application is readily downloadable in all android cellular phones and other android gadgets, except for appstore (for iphones). The DevLIVE Version 2.0 is now bound for the 2019 roll-out in a selected province in every region.
