https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights.html Field notes from the ITDC Systems engineering and delivery teams on building secure, large-scale platforms for Philippine government and enterprise organizations. en-PH Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/designing-citizen-identity-platforms-for-philippine-lgus.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/designing-citizen-identity-platforms-for-philippine-lgus.html E-Government Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 A citizen identity platform is not a card-printing project. It is a register, a verification service and a set of decisions about who sees what. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/building-secure-government-information-systems.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/building-secure-government-information-systems.html Security Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Security in a government system is mostly unglamorous decisions made early: who can see what, what gets logged, and what happens to test accounts. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/cloud-disaster-recovery-for-government-applications.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/cloud-disaster-recovery-for-government-applications.html Cloud & DevOps Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Disaster recovery is a pair of numbers you agree before you design anything. Most DR plans fail because nobody ever chose the numbers. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/modernizing-legislative-information-management.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/modernizing-legislative-information-management.html E-Government Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 A legislative system has one job above the rest: to say without ambiguity what the current text of a measure is, and how it got there. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/designing-enterprise-asset-management-systems.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/designing-enterprise-asset-management-systems.html Enterprise Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Asset registers fail predictably: the data model is built for the accountant, the data entry is done by the custodian, and nobody reconciled them. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/public-sector-command-center-architecture.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/public-sector-command-center-architecture.html Infrastructure Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 A command center is a network project with a room attached. Most of the ones that underperform were procured as a room with a video wall. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/procuring-government-software-under-ra-9184.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/procuring-government-software-under-ra-9184.html E-Government Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 How a Philippine LGU scopes, budgets and procures a software system under RA 9184 — and what belongs in the terms of reference. https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/build-vs-buy-lgu-permit-system.html https://www.itdcsystems.com/insights/build-vs-buy-lgu-permit-system.html E-Government Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 When a Philippine LGU should buy a packaged business permit system, when it should commission a build, and how to tell which case applies.